Spelling errors on Powerpoints

[FIREitUP]

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I'm going to postulate that the number of spelling errors on a professor's powerpoint is proportional to how terrible of a professor he/she is. Other factors also contribute, but I've never read a powerpoint that had many spelling errors that wasn't by a terrible professor.

 

[owlegrad]

Does that mean a powerpoint with no errors must have been developed by an excellent professor? 😉

 

[cbrons]

Man I just hate powerpoints in general.

I kind of wish it was like back in the old days where they would have to diagram everything on a blackboard. All of the illustrations, fancy ways of organizing things, etc. makes it more complicated.

Also hate having 23 hours of class with little guidance on what you are expected to know for exams. Some professors give you notes to read for each lecture plus chapters plus powerpoints. Others say just check their powerpoints. Still others list objectives you need to generally know. I feel like half my time studying is figuring out the most efficient way to study.

 

[johnmendes]

Man I just hate powerpoints in general.

I kind of wish it was like back in the old days where they would have to diagram everything on a blackboard. All of the illustrations, fancy ways of organizing things, etc. makes it more complicated.

Also hate having 23 hours of class with little guidance on what you are expected to know for exams. Some professors give you notes to read for each lecture plus chapters plus powerpoints. Others say just check their powerpoints. Still others list objectives you need to generally know. I feel like half my time studying is figuring out the most efficient way to study.

I miss the days when you just needed one book per subject, and as long as you studied from it, you'd be golden...

 

[cbrons]

I miss the days when you just needed one book per subject, and as long as you studied from it, you'd be golden...

Yeah, esp when the books were very simple without the complex graphs and illustrations and irrelevant, inconsequential, highly detailed minutia and little known facts.

 

[FIREitUP]

Yeah, esp when the books were very simple without the complex graphs and illustrations and irrelevant, inconsequential, highly detailed minutia and little known facts.

Oh man, I agree 100%. It's just another way for the school to create a wider distribution of scores. God forbid they test only on important information, then everyone would do well!

 

[NickNaylor]

The notes that we get from the professors are so laden with errors that it'd be funny if it also wasn't somewhat sad. Fortunately most if them are pretty solid lecturers.

 

[Abby_Normal]

I don't think there's a correlation between errors and poor quality as a professor. Some of my best professors have had spelling and grammar errors in powerpoints and handouts. There are one or two for my current block that consistently misuse commas and, as a former writing tutor, it's driving me nuts.

 

[JOHNNYCAGE]

Maybe not how terrible but definitely how lazy. For instance I always knew which exam questions one of my biochem profs wrote for the test because they would all be one sentence long with one word answer choices. This is the guy who taught us about "DNA Repar Mechanisms" and "Chromsomes-Cell Cycle." There was next to no text written on any of his powerpoints either...you think he could at least fix what was there.