Is powerpoint still effective to educate or giving your idea? that the question of myself. i'm began to ask the question due to nowadays, the technology has grown rapidly (as usual) and all peoples not only know, but also prefer to use youtube than only learn from old ways.
yeah, youtube and all video become popular not only today, but maybe several years ago. i know it the growing of youtube at US and other developed country with huge technology, but not in my country. its seems the huge growing of technology in our country start around this year, with the increasing technology in 4G in smart phone. with this meaning, with the more cheaper prepay the more access data they get.
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video is easy to understand
by watching video, it's more easy to understand compare to read a note. like an example, nowadays i want to learn new music tools, violin. but i want to learn by self-taught, without a teacher. So, i easily to understand when someone show me how to playing with video rather than just read a book or website.
With video, i saw hot to grab the violin, how to play the finger, how to string the bow and so on. video more effective than only a note. see this video, this girl learn violin without teacher and after two years, she become expert. look at the comment, even some people that learning with teacher praise her.
that the advantage of video, with video people no need to do something. what i mean is, when you saw a video, you just watch, no need to read (except you see the subtitle). And when read a note, you need to be focused on one by one the sentence, and you need to understand. Reading is need more effort than only watch. so, the video become more popular.
is we still need powerpoint?
The other question, if the video more popular, than we still need powerpoint or not?
That's become my last question. as solo writer on this blog, may be powerpoint is old stuff. and you know, almost one year i'm not update this blog.. oh my gosh!.. this blog become sink & rusty. i almost forgot how to write an article. i apologize guys, all because the classic reason, little busy in real word.
ok come back to the powerpoint, if you have youtube, why you still use powerpoint?
The answers is, with more option people will have more chance to learn. so is depend on the people where he want to learn from? from video, or just from old way with powerpoint.
Powerpoint is easy to make.
The best part with using powerpoint, is powerpoint easy to use. with video you easy to understand, i will not doubt about it. The question is, can you create good video to make people understand? i'm sure you can criticize one video is good or not?, but i'm pretty sure that you can't make good video! it's easy to said than act.
You may answers, "i can copy the video and make it as my own". yeah, your answers may be correct, but you can't find on youtube what ever you want. sometime you need to make it! and come back to question number one, can you make a good video?
with power point, with heritage the name, the power of point. you can write point to point and then you explain to audience. it's easy ways.
like teacher on class, they still use black board so teacher can draw or write something so audience can understand. That may be the old ways, but we still use it until nowadays, because what? is easy to write and easy to understand.
teaching is more powerful than only you watching youtube or video. Although you can learn autodidact (self-taught), but when you learn with teacher is you can ask question, the ways that you can't get from only watching video.
Powerpoint is enough movie
Although we can create movie, with powerpoint we can create something like movie, with animation. making animation is easy in powerpoint, it's not difficult as you think, many article in this blog shows you how to use it. even, you can create animation by trying and error, by yourself.
but the point you need to remember, don't give to much animation to powerpoint, it's make it childish. or you can blur the point and people get dizzy with your animation. just put several animation on it, at point that you need to animation.
the last word i need to say. within all video in youtube, within all powerpoint website all over the internet, all stuff that show you how to create powerpoint. it's good point, you can learn from all of that, not only from this page. and for me, i got nothing except sharing, i'm happy to share.i happy to write even my english is not so good. what i know is, we will happy not because what we get, but we will happy if we can share something to someone.