PowerPoint Pedagogy Why to click (not how to click)
Biggest Problem: Text Heavy Slides Projected slides are a good medium for depicting an idea graphically or providing an overview. They are a poor medium for detail and reading. Avoid paragraphs, quotations and even complete sentences. Limit your slides to five lines of text and use words and phrases to make your points. The audience will be able to digest and retain key points more easily. Don’t use your slides as speaker’s notes or to simply project an outline of your presentation. Another visual cliché. Templates force you to fit your original ideas into someone else’s pre-packaged mold. The templates often contain distracting backgrounds and poor color combinations. Pick up a good book on Web graphics and apply the same principles to your slides. Create your own distinctive look or use your company logo in a corner of the screen.
Using PPT as a note delivery system But I need all that text
Taking notes makes a difference Kiewra, K., Fletcher, H. (1984) The relationship between levels of note-taking and achievement. Human Learning: Journal of Practical Research & Applications, 3(4)
How should they get the notes? Raver, S. & Maydosz, A. (2010). Impact of the provision and timing of instructor-provided notes on university students’ learning. Active Learning in Higher Education, 11(3)
Students like PowerPoint Priyadarshini, K., Shetty, H. & Reena, R. (2012). Assement of different teaching aids and teaching methods for the better perception of biochemistry by 1 st MBBS students. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Science 1(6)
How we use PowerPoint As a note taking guide As a substitute Blackboard/whiteboard As a visual aid As a demonstration model
The key Concepts they should write down Add visual images that will help them remember the concepts
How we use PowerPoint As a note taking guide As a substitute Blackboard/whiteboard As a visual aid As a demonstration model
PPT Fixes Use student input to create the slide during a discussion in class. Pet PeeveSolutions Reading the slides Too much text Images you can’t see Crazy animations Endless droning ppt One slide handouts Hard to highlight Things Not know how to use ppt Only put a broad topic on the slide and explain yourself Preview the images Import the image into Viewer, make it a jpg. Handout with even less text than the presentation Put a summarized version on BB Teach the young and old scholars to print slides better
How we use PowerPoint As a note taking guide As a substitute Blackboard/whiteboard As a visual aid As a demonstration model
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How we use PowerPoint As a note taking guide As a substitute Blackboard/whiteboard As a visual aid As a demonstration model
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How Students can use Powerpoint Making posters for online display Doing Ignite presentations Creating concept maps
How Students can use Powerpoint Making posters for online display Doing Ignite presentations Creating concept maps
How Students can use Powerpoint Making posters for online display Doing Ignite presentations Creating concept maps
Let SmartArt guide them Go to “insert”, choose “smart art”, and have students illustrate concepts from the class by filling these pre-made metaphors. Have them save the images as pdfs and post them on Discussion Boards or Blogs to share them with each other. contentinteraction Learning
Any classroom technology is only helpful for learning if the students do something with it.