My girlfriend is a teacher, and I can say for sure that it is a lost cause.
Teachers know that their slides suck, but it's what they are taught, and is what their curriculum demands. They demand bright colours, Comic Sans for dyslexic students, and tons of text on each slide.
For a middle-management role in the school, I designed her slides using one of those JS slide scripts, and it went down a treat. It took me the best part of two hours to port her content from Powerpoint to these slides, and I was able to add videos, animations, and to embed Google Apps data directly into the slide. Apparently, the interviewers had their minds blown by being able to view a Google Docs spreadsheet (where I had written the formulas) directly into the slide. I'd still say that it was fairly poorly designed, but it was a lot better than what kids are forced to read.
Teachers know that their slides suck, but it's what they are taught, and is what their curriculum demands. They demand bright colours, Comic Sans for dyslexic students, and tons of text on each slide.
For a middle-management role in the school, I designed her slides using one of those JS slide scripts, and it went down a treat. It took me the best part of two hours to port her content from Powerpoint to these slides, and I was able to add videos, animations, and to embed Google Apps data directly into the slide. Apparently, the interviewers had their minds blown by being able to view a Google Docs spreadsheet (where I had written the formulas) directly into the slide. I'd still say that it was fairly poorly designed, but it was a lot better than what kids are forced to read.