Laptops Are Just Plain Naughty

Found an excellent article recently on why IT departments despise laptops. Is yours the same? Check out the article from Computerworld and let me know!

ITEC610 Learning Highlight - Midterm

So we just had our midterm in ITEC 610, and it was a really interesting concept: we had to take our research papers and create an executive presentation. Pretty cool idea, and it was surprisingly difficult (see the summary slide above). Did I learn something? Absolutely:

• Brevity is difficult when discussing the contents of a 20+ page paper
• Brevity is critical when presenting information to executives and leaders
• One should never, ever overdo a presentation. At some point, animation is lame
• Cramming empirical data into easy-to-understand charts is, in a word, frustrating
• Globalization and the role that IT and communication played in its facilitation is a topic far better served by a lecture series, 100-page presentation, and several follow-up debates.