{"id":13144,"date":"2014-03-17T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=13144"},"modified":"2014-03-17T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:33:24","slug":"ditch-the-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ditch-the-powerpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditch the PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/03\/16\/288796805\/physicists-generals-and-ceos-agree-ditch-the-powerpoint\" title=\"Read the entire article from NPR (Opens in a new window)\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About six months ago, a group of physicists in the U.S. working on the Large Hadron Collider addressed a problem they&#8217;ve been having for a while: Whenever they had meetings, everyone stuck to the prepared slides, and couldn&#8217;t really answer questions that weren&#8217;t immediately relevant to what was on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The point of the forum is to start discussions, so the physicists banned PowerPoint \u00e2\u20ac\u201d from then on, they could only use a board and a marker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The use of the PowerPoint slides was acting as a straitjacket to discussion,&#8221; says Andrew Askew, an assistant professor of physics at Florida State University and one of the organizers of the forum at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could you ditch PowerPoint?<\/p>\n<p>Would you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR: About six months ago, a group of physicists in the U.S. working on the Large Hadron Collider addressed a problem they&#8217;ve been having for a while: Whenever they had meetings, everyone stuck to the prepared slides, and couldn&#8217;t really answer questions that weren&#8217;t immediately relevant to what was on the screen. The point &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ditch-the-powerpoint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ditch the PowerPoint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-techno","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3q0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13146,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions\/13146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}