ABSTRACT
At the moment, students bring their bodies to lectures and fill their minds with Facebook, thinking that the PowerPoint slides will give them enough information to pass the course. Think about all the lectures, seminars and conferences that have attended in the last five years. This chapter compares PowerPoint with overhead transparencies. It uses the digital environment to produce and provide the data that is not well presented in analogue lectures. By configuring independent and separate learning objects using SlideShare as a portal and vehicle for storytelling and introducing an analogue learning experience, it demonstrates that some information is not meant to move between platforms and is not meant to be read quickly. Many inexperienced academic teachers assign and evaluate a PowerPoint 'presentation' as part of their assessment. Poor lecturers, teachers and curriculum developers are perpetuating the problem caused by their use of PowerPoint by assessing students on rather than content, basic technical competency.
