{"id":3256,"date":"2010-02-07T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2010-02-07T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:07:35","slug":"reposti-prefer-my-professors-illegible-handwriting-to-your-powerpoint-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/reposti-prefer-my-professors-illegible-handwriting-to-your-powerpoint-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::I Prefer My Professor\u2019s Illegible Handwriting To Your PowerPoint Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O feel the same way. Powerpoints are superflous and in most cases unecessary. If you are just going to read stuff to me or tell me things I can read in the book, then why are you wasting my time ? I can read the goddamn book. If you really want to not be useless then teach me. Quiz me and find out what&#8217;s the barriers from me understanding something. What do I find unconvincing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The surprising part is not that he lectures without PowerPoint, because many professors also avoid presentation software. The surprising part is that I prefer his chalkboard notes over PowerPoint despite the fact that his handwriting is almost completely illegible, suggesting that there is a quality of \u201cchalk talks\u201d that is useful to my learning style beyond just being able to read the notes. I have some ideas why this might be:<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carolynworks.com\/?p=297\">Carolyn Blogs \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb I Prefer My Professor\u2019s Illegible Handwriting To Your PowerPoint Presentation<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O feel the same way. Powerpoints are superflous and in most cases unecessary. If you are just going to read stuff to me or tell me things I can read in the book, then why are you wasting my time ? I can read the goddamn book. If you really want to not be useless &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/07\/reposti-prefer-my-professors-illegible-handwriting-to-your-powerpoint-presentation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::I Prefer My Professor\u2019s Illegible Handwriting To Your PowerPoint Presentation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,64,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-pettiness","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}