David, 
I totally agree with your view of Power Point presentations not allowing the presenter/instructor to adapt on the fly to the audience. This is the reason, why I am an advocate of Smart Boards. During my math lesson for Grade 8 students, I taught about Sequencing and Patterning. I used a Smart Board which basically acted like a Power Point Presentation, in which all my slides were neatly organized in sequence. During the presentation, a couple students did not understand the central concepts. I needed to think on my feet and address the problem a new way. Luckily with the Smart Board technology, you can quickly and easily create a blank new page and everything becomes freeform in terms of drawing a shape, writing text etc. After I approached the problem a new way and the students understood the material, I could quickly jump back to the exact spot in my presentation that we were previously at. If for some reason, students needed to once again see the information that we “just made up on the fly”, we could quickly switch to that slide.
I totally agree with your view of Power Point presentations not allowing the presenter/instructor to adapt on the fly to the audience. This is the reason, why I am an advocate of Smart Boards. During my math lesson for Grade 8 students, I taught about Sequencing and Patterning. I used a Smart Board which basically acted like a Power Point Presentation, in which all my slides were neatly organized in sequence. During the presentation, a couple students did not understand the central concepts. I needed to think on my feet and address the problem a new way. Luckily with the Smart Board technology, you can quickly and easily create a blank new page and everything becomes freeform in terms of drawing a shape, writing text etc. After I approached the problem a new way and the students understood the material, I could quickly jump back to the exact spot in my presentation that we were previously at. If for some reason, students needed to once again see the information that we “just made up on the fly”, we could quickly switch to that slide.
I’m very impress with this site you posted. The big problem with implementing this is the cost. With the smart board, although it costs a lot of money, schools would only need to purchase 1 per class (in most ideal situations), whereas Classroom Presenter would require 1 per student.
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