In reply to Harold Jarche » Born in a storm.

Death by PPTNo, the person did not just read from the slides, and actully added some interesting anecdotes. Unfortunately, one presentation was 48 slides of bullets. Dual coding theory shows that people learn better when text is used in conjunction with graphics or pictures (dual coding with two parts of the brain). They learn less when voice and text are combined, because the same part of the brain processes the reading of text and listening to a monologue. It's also boring, beacuase you can read faster than they can speak, and then you turn off.