I feel that Powerpoint has been misused since it was introduced into the teaching/instrucing media aides. Some instructors will use it as their main teaching aide where I think it should be used for making a bigger point to your sudents when instructing on certain subjects. Powerpoint is not a class baby-sitter but rather an attention getter. Instructors will a lot of time make this much longer than it should be so that students start to fall asleep in class and then it becomes a disruption to the class instead of an aide. Powerpoint should be a brief, colorful, illustrated, depiction of what the students should be learning. Making them take notes or fill out a questionaire during the presentation is also very benefitial to the students. It makes then pay more attention and stay awake even if it is sort of boring to them.