OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to discuss the potential issue of exposing patient information from digital images used in PowerPoint presentations. CONCLUSION Current methods for safeguarding patient information in PowerPoint presentations still contain the potential for risk. In radiology, many digital images used in PowerPoint contain hidden patient identification information. Alt...

OBJECTIVE To compare the impact of the PowerPoint multimedia presentation and chalkboard in teaching by assessing the knowledge based on the marks obtained. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from December 2007 - June 2009. METHODOLOGY Three-hundred male medic...

PowerPoint is both extremely prevalent and controversial. Unfortunately, much of the critical discussion concerning PowerPoint is both casually and poorly argued. A heuristic, offered here, can help reveal when claims about PowerPoint and deck design are poorly supported or ambiguous. This heuristic may prove useful to all those who reason about PowerPoint: those who formulate research question...

PowerPoint has come to dominate organizational life in general and strategy making in particular. The technology is lauded by its proponents as a powerful tool for communication and excoriated by its critics as dangerously simplifying. This study takes a deeper look into how PowerPoint is mobilized in strategy making through an ethnographic study inside one organization. It treats PowerPoint as...

In recent years, the uses of PowerPoint (a form of multimedia) presentations in classroom instruction have significantly increased globally without examination of their effects on student learning and attitudes. In this study, we test whether using PowerPoint in an accounting course enhances student short-term memory, long-term memory, and attitudes toward class presentation and the instructor....

INTRODUCTION No communication technology is simply a conduit for information. Rather, every communication technology has its own mediation effects— its own ways of influencing communication (Kaptelinin and Nardi 2006). A presentation supported by PowerPoint (or another slideware application) and the process of preparing it will be very different from a presentation not supported by visuals and ...

The introduction of PowerPoint presentation software has generated a paradigm shift in the delivery of lectures. PowerPoint has now almost entirely replaced chalkboard or whiteboard teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This study investigated whether undergraduate biology students preferred to have lectures delivered by PowerPoint or written on the board as well as the reasons beh...

THE PROBLEM WITH POWERPOINT There is nothing more frustrating than sitting through a presentation bombarded by slide after slide of small text, difficult to read graphs, irrelevant clip art images, and poorly designed templates. Often to blame is the use and abuse of PowerPoint1 (e.g., Tufte, 2003; Bumiller, 2010). Academics typically only endure weak PowerPoint presentations at conferences, wh...

PowerPoint is a ubiquitous multimedia authoring tool that is widely used in education for in-class presentations and the distribution of course materials; however a common complaint is that it is linear and noninteractive thus does not enhance learning. Although the research literature describes methods of improving interactivity in PowerPoint such as the use of quizzes, there is a dearth of st...