An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom

Autor/inn/en	Gries, Laurie E.; Brooke, Collin Gifford
Titel	An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom
Quelle	In: Composition Studies, 38 (2010) 1, S.11-28 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-9322
Schlagwörter	Computer Software; Reputation; Writing Instruction; Writing Processes; Technology Uses in Education; Teaching Methods; Multimedia Materials; Criticism; Influences; Organizational Culture; Access to Information; Layout (Publications); Cognitive Structures; Visual Aids; Design; Communication (Thought Transfer); Role; Classroom Environment; Rhetoric + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibunterricht; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kritik; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Unternehmenskultur; Textgestaltung; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Anschauungsmaterial; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Rollen; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Rhetorik
Abstract	Every so often, a technology will saturate the market to the extent that the name of the product becomes a stand-in for the technology itself. While it belongs to the broader genre of slideware, Microsoft PowerPoint is perhaps the best example of software that has achieved that level of ubiquity. Despite Apple's Keynote, the Presentation Editor within Google Docs, Zoho Show, and others, the visual display of sequential slides (most typically during an oral presentation) has become synonymous with PowerPoint. Although it has achieved this level of popularity, PowerPoint is also considered by many to be synonymous with mind-numbing boredom, painful expository bullet points, and the overexposure of the Microsoft clip art library. That is, PowerPoint may be used widely, but it is just as widely disparaged, and often used only begrudgingly. In this article, the authors argue that when used in dynamic, inventive ways, slideware can become an integral and productive part of pedagogical and technological repertoires. They believe it is time to set aside one's mistrust and disdain for software like PowerPoint and consider carefully how it might aid in the teaching of writing. Using the presentation format Pecha Kucha as a model, the authors offer productive reasons and ways to reconfigure the role of slideware in the composing process. Slideware design and delivery can play a creative and inventive role in students' making of writing. (Contains 5 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	University of Winnipeg. Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9, Canada. Tel: 204-786-9001; Fax: 204-774-4134; e-mail: compositionstudies@uwinnipeg.ca; Web site: http://www.compositionstudies.uwinnipeg.ca
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10