PowerPoint should be scrapped – study / Contractor UK, 20 April 2007
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003209.html
"Reassurance that it’s ‘ok’ to fall asleep in corporate presentations via Microsoft software has arrived in the shape of research from Australia."

Help! My brain is overloaded! / University of South Wales, 23 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sqgx
"Key points about Cognitive Load Theory:
- Working memory is only limited when you’re learning new information. Once information is in long-term memory, it can be brought back to working memory in very large amounts.
- In a classroom situation, only limited material is going to be retained, unless notes are taken or handed out.
- Power-point presentations can backfire if the information on the screen is the same as that which is verbalized, because the audience’s attention will be split between the two."