PowerPoint is frequently misused, in that it's wrongly viewed by too many presenters as the be-all and the end-all of a presentation. They overload their slides with all the information that needs to be presented because, again, the PowerPoint is, they believe, the entire presentation. In the end, they have text-heavy slides—and usually way too many slides—which only leads to a distracted audience that is busy reading instead of listening.

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PowerPoint is but one part of a presentation.

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Properly used, PowerPoint provides visual aids that enhance what the presenter is saying and helps draw the audience members in, so that they are listening even more intently.

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PowerPoint also offers some great tools to visually represent a theme or convey a message that is hard to put into words. For example, in the "Constructing Futures" PowerPoints I've posted here, I used animation to show how an abandoned house was transformed through the program (slide 5).

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