Powerpoint

Although throughout my education and any jobs or internships powerpoint has been very useful to me, it does have its annoying parts. These annoying parts are not from the technology itself, I wouldn't touch on these since I myself don't know any more than the next person. I believe the people who use powerpoint sometimes are what cause such annoyances. I believe that powerpoints should look professional and be to the point. For this reason I dislike when professors clump too much information into little parts of a slide. I would much rather have, say a topic, be divided into two well organized slides than crunched all into one. Another pet peeve of mine is when people use pictures as they're background, I truly believe this is an abuse of our ability to do so. I feel as if pictures are there for when you need to show something specific, not have writing all over it.  When showing the slideshow itself I like things to be presented to me straight forward, not flying in or disappearing, this way you can write down whats needed instead of getting confused on graphics and designs. It truly bothers me when people write down everything they're going to say on their powerpoint, this just makes them seem disorganized and as if they truly did not research the subject well enough. Along with this is people who just use up space on the slides to make it look like they have more information, I believe a narrow summary on a bulletpoint followed by explanation has a much better affect. With all these dislikes about powerpoint there is one thing I truly have come to appreciate. Being a scientist and working in research labs, the ability to use powerpoint to create a professional poster for a conference is an amazing ability, and it is pretty easy to use also. You can fit all your work into this nicely organized poster and have it designed the way you want it, including the sizing. Having done two of these myself, I find this a great incentive to use powerpoint.