Don't Use PowerPoint!

From Eight Things You Can Do To Improve the Quality of Your eLearning by Mark Lassoff of LearnToProgram.TV

Don’t Use Powerpoint- For the love of God! No Powerpoint– or at least no abusive Powerpoint. Your audience can read. Showing a Powerpoint and reading it to them is not effective eLearning. It’s a crutch for people who don’t know what they’re doing.”They saw the Powerpoint– They’re trained,” is an all too common thought process in eLearning. Powerpoint is no different from any other written medium. You might as well hand them photocopies of your presentation written in Word. Powerpoint is easier for the eLearning Developer because (a) They don’t have to have much skill to use it and (b) It’s quick. Don’t be lazy. Don’t use Powerpoint. It’s simply not effective.