Is it just me or do most teachers not understand adventure games...

[bspeers101]

Powerpoint is the secret to success in college presentations too, if you can use it well.  In my engineering class we were told to bring transparencies in to detail our missile designs and explain them to the class.  The lecture hall had two projectors and screens so I used them both and made models on blender, the other guys drew on the transparencies with markers!

Funny, I've been in classes where you can be heavily penalized for using Power-Point.  Power-Point is a good way to say nothing with a big projection screen and animated bullets.

Though of course, your presentation sounds better than that.

[remixor]

When I was in high school, my friend and I made the most exploitative and ludicrous PowerPoint presentation ever.  It had the Jurassic Park soundtrack in the background, there was stuff exploding and flying around everywhere, there were crazy sound effects all over the place, it was absolutely nuts.  I don't even remember what it was about, but it was for a biology class.  It was probably a presentation on DNA or something.  Completely absurd.

[Gemmalah]

man, you don't need to be a genious to use powerpoint, oh and i like the point that they liked the fact I made the game, probably true.
cos i'm not some glasses wearing braces wrearing nerd who has no tan and bad breath (most likely male but none can tell) who cannot like without a computer they think i probably can't programme, that is so wrong isn't it guys?  ???I don't have bad breath or braces.  

[SSH]

To quote Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert:

Your co-workers (or cow-orkers) are very similar to cows. Here's an example:

1. Cows eat grass and produce manure
2. Your co-workers eat donuts and produce Powerpoint slides

Of course, it isn't the perfect analogy because donuts have sugar and fat added to the flour (that comes from grass), but it will do...

[Meowster]

That's where Info Cow got his name! Goddamn!!!

[TerranRich]

Maybe a tad bit off-topic, but I remember my dad introducing us to adventure games with SQ4 and KQ5 when they first came out. Then when I told him about AGS and how I could make my own games in that style like a year ago, he said "Space Quest 4? Rick, that's old, nobody plays those anymore!"

I should've said, "Dad! You listen to crap 70's rock! You're old! Nobody listens to you anymore!"

[LordHart]

I listen to 70's rock... :'(

[remixor]

crap 70's rock

For some reason, my brain is having trouble processing this arrangement of words  

[MillsJROSS]

PowerPoint can be usefull for organizing a speech, if used correctly. I see two misuses of it by my professors, often times, though.

They sometimes get sooo discriptive on them, that they might as well just use Word and scroll down. They lose the concept of what powerpoint is for. The don't organize it well enough so the student can see the main idea and than the elaboration of that idea without having to look for it for a while.

The other mistake, is they underuse the powerpoint. They simply put up a topic and DON'T elaborate enough. So that the Powerpoint is rendered useless. The points don't bear any meaning what-so-ever, as they have so many possibilities as to what the point might mean.

The last problem of a Powerpoint is that some people use it to substitute note taking. This is actually the opposite of what powerpoint is for.

I don't think PowerPoint is crap. I think it's a powerful utility, that most people don't know how to use effictively. A powerpoint should give you your main points and then eleborate enough on where you should spend your time studying within those main points, but not eleborate too much. A powerpoint presentation should mix audatory and visual learning combined.

-MillsJROSS