CRICOS Provider No 00025B Some Practical Tips for using PowerPoint Dr Julie McCredden Educational Design SBS

Using PowerPoint Effectively

Using PowerPoint Effectively

The Main Principles for Effective PowerPoint Presentations The students live in a visual generations It is important to show ideas using visual descriptions and analogies Imagery is an effective aide for learning and for memory It is more effective to use images rather than using words to tell the students what the main ideas are ALSO If you are going to tell them rather than use images, make it brief People read everything that is on your slide If you tell, then present the main ideas using dot points

Principles for Presentations The Main Principles for Effective PowerPoint Presentations The students live in a visual generations show It is important to show ideas using visual descriptions and analogies Imagery is an effective aide for learning and for memory rather than tell It is more effective to use images rather than using words to tell the students what the main ideas are ALSO If you tell If you are going to tell them rather than use images, make it brief People read everything that is on your slide using dot points If you tell, then present the main ideas using dot points

Principles for Presentations 1. Show, don’t tell 2. If you tell, use dot points

Principles for Presentations 1. Show, don’t tell 2. If you tell, use dot points

To see your notes: In Powerpoint 1.Slide Show 2.Set up slide show 3.Show presenter view (if windows control panel pops up, then follow instructions 3 and 4 below) 4.Use other monitor for slide show In Windows 1.Control Panel 2.Display 3.Make this (the laptop) my primary monitor 4.Extend to other monitor (desktop, plug and play) which is where the slide show wlil be shown for the audience

Visual and Sound Effects Videos YouTube (recommended) Home grown Animations using others animation libraries using others animation libraries Clip art Home grown

Using animations Using animations takes some thought If you try to use them too often That is, with every single point They will be distracting

….. and can make your audience dizzy

You need to think

Which visual best represents the idea?

When Animations Can Help

The politics of kangaroo farming as the sun on the ustralian beef industry The politics of kangaroo farming as the sun sets on the Australian beef industry

DECISION MAKING: conflicting factors Gradual Release from Dams Risk avoidance policy Weather forecast (rain) Drought

DECISION MAKING: conflicting factors Drought Gradual Release Weather Forecast (rain) Risk aversion Policy Policy

Make your own animations Blank slide Insert clip art or photo or shape Insert clip art object or shape Animations Custom animations Add effect Emphasis /Exit/Motion Paths On click / with previous / after previous Play

Animation Tips mDUrazr8Fy8&NR=1

Making an animated PowerPoint

More Tips

Planning

Video From YouTube Need Get YouTube Embedder (online presentations) Converter(offline presentations): zamzar.com Home grown PC: wmv, wma MAC mp4, mov Still may need converter: zamzar.com button:

Video Setup 1.Click on PowerPoint Office Tab (top left, red+orange+blue+green button) 2.‘Show developer tab in the ribbon’ radio button ON 3.Down the bottom: select [PowerPoint Options] 4.Left menu: select Add-Ins 5.Scroll down to Manage, select [PowerPoint Add-Ins] 6.Go.. 7.Pop up window [Available add ins] 8.Select [Add New..] then Browse to My Computer/C drive/YouTubeVideo and select it 9.Okay and close

Video Insertion PowerPoint Insert YouTubeVideo Cut and paste URL from YouTube page into the wizard (Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v work) Okay and close Resize Play slide show and watch, play, pause Use PPT bottom left hidden arrows to move on

Video Insertion

Conversion Zamzar.com: Free up to 100MB Enter URL, address, wmv or mov/mp4 looks like this – click on the link but NOT ON ANYTHING ELSE Alternatively click on the following link to download a copy of your converted file: &targetID=9Ya1O4LQot6S_Y_Zhxx TB_Z_Z8yjgVYHFyTe &targetID=9Ya1O4LQot6S_Y_Zhxx TB_Z_Z8yjgVYHFyTe Download to desktop Insert to Powerpoint, Insert/Media Clips/Movie then select the wmv (mov or pm4 for mac) file

Converted file 6MB

Backgrounds and Styles clear, non distracting and relevant For UQ templates go to x.html?page= x.html?page= clear, non distracting and relevant For UQ templates go to x.html?page= x.html?page=110835

This information To get the doc with all this info go to inserting video into powerpoint Helps with – Online video (direct from YouTube) – Offline video (converting from YouTUbe to wmv then inserting using zamzar) – Inserting home grown videos

Resources Flickr (creative commons) Paid sources Clipart Home grown

MACS Need mov or mp4