PowerPoint

Tonight, a personal first.

I have never in my life constructed a PowerPoint presentation. Honestly, I've never had a reason to. True, I'm a preacher. But my preaching style is more literary than didactic, so it doesn't really lend itself to visuals. My theory is that preaching is oratory, and should uplift and inspire. If PowerPoint could make a message resonate more deeply with an audience, politicians and Presidential campaigns would have been using it already. The best orators in the world intentionally avoid PowerPoint, and I suspect for good reason.

And yes, I teach quiz bowl. I suppose there might be a use for it there. After all, I am not averse to showing music videos or projecting a crossword puzzle onto the screen for the class to solve together. But the lessons I've taught so far just haven't called for PowerPoint.

Tonight, though, the LCHE Christmas Party is featuring end-of-semester presentations. The Quiz Bowl class has been learning how to write questions. (After all, the best way to get good at answering questions is to get good at writing them.) So tonight we show off our work in a game of Parent Jeopardy.

The kids have some good stuff. The only question remaining is whether or not I can put a presentation together to properly show it off.

Wish me luck.