{"id":207,"date":"2006-10-04T05:43:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T09:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/10\/04\/sentences-are-smarter-than-the-grunts-of-bullet-points-edward-tufte\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T05:43:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T09:43:21","slug":"sentences-are-smarter-than-the-grunts-of-bullet-points-edward-tufte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/10\/04\/sentences-are-smarter-than-the-grunts-of-bullet-points-edward-tufte\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sentences are smarter than the grunts of bullet points.&#8221;     &nbsp;&mdash;Edward Tufte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bored.jpg\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/145\/files\/2006\/10\/bored.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\nWe were talking today, again, about that recurrent concern over the reliance on PowerPoint for presenting complex concepts or sharing knowledge.  I recently read Edward Tufte&#8217;s <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/books_be\">Beautiful Evidence<\/a><\/i> and the second edition of his powerful PowerPoint essay is quoted in the title of this post.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a perpetual teaching\/learning issue. Not only is PP increasingly relied upon to support lecture, but more students are required to submit their course work in this format.<br \/>\nSome questions that I feel are worth asking are, <em>Do bullet points and pictures inspire or require smart and rigorous thinking?    How much of the blame for bad (i.e.,  diminishing, boring, soporific, flattening&#8230;) PowerPoint presentations lies with the user and how much with the tool? <\/em><br \/>\nRead more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002PP&amp;topic_id=1\">Edward Tufte&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were talking today, again, about that recurrent concern over the reliance on PowerPoint for presenting complex concepts or sharing knowledge. I recently read Edward Tufte&#8217;s Beautiful Evidence and the second edition of his powerful PowerPoint essay is quoted in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/10\/04\/sentences-are-smarter-than-the-grunts-of-bullet-points-edward-tufte\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6875,6877,6874,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-to-ctl-home-page","category-design","category-pedagogy","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}