So many new instructors believe that they need to entertain their students with powerpoints, but they incorrectly use them. These instructors will use powerpoint presentations week after week. They read the slides to the students. It is especially hard in an evening class for four hours where students have spent all day at work and then come to a "movie show" for a class. I think it would be enough to put anyone to sleep. Powerpoint is not meant to be the whole presentation. It should only be used as a visual in an oral presentation (class lecture or demonstration). Powerpoints are suppliments not the material itself. We as instructors need to be high tech but not for the sake of just being high tech. Learning must be our first priority and then technology.