1. Killing Your Students with PowerPoint
STOP
Killing Your Students with PowerPoint

2. can be highly boring for your students
PowerPoint
can be highly boring for your students
and should only
be used by authorised
Teachers

3. Warning

4. It's my duty to warn you

5. PowerPoint

6. How to avoid

7. a Slow Death by PowerPoint

8. (No students were harmed during the making of this presentation)‏

9. The Top Cardinal Sins

10. Cardinal Sin 1

11. The Script

12. The problem is that most people speak at

13. 150 WPM

14. Yet most people read at

15. 250 WPM

16. Common PowerPoint Mistakes
1. Some teachers like to put every single thing they are going to say on their slides. Although this means that you do not have to remember what to say on your slides. This makes your slides boring, text heavy and causes your students eyes to glaze over, the mobile phones come out and the fidgeting begins. They begin to wonder why they are even listening to you as they have already used up all their brain power reading ahead and drawing their own conclusions. All this before you even reach the bottom of your. . .

17. Common PowerPoint Mistakes
1. Continued - first slide

18. Cardinal Sin 2

19. Dodging Bullets

20. Example

21. This is a Very Important Slide
In case you had not understood the fact that this is a very important slide from the heading I am going to make sure that you read the information again in many different ways
The problem with very important slides (VIS) is that you try to get as much information on to them as possible
Because as we all know in teaching you can’t just say something once you have to make sure its said or shown three times in three different ways to get the same message across!
That way the little blighters can’t say you did not tell them
The sad thing is this causes Teachers to use PowerPoint's with lots of different levels and bullet points to put across the same key message (over and over again!)‏
Here it is again – I am important – read me!
Have you got the point yet
Please remember I am important too even if I am a third level bullet point
It does not matter how many different ways you try to cram the information in
Nobody is going to read it anyway
So its all pretty pointless
And you end up wasting your time
Want students to read ? Give it to them on paper! A slide is not the place to do it
Whoopee!
Phew is that it now?

22. Not exactly exciting is it?

23. To a student this is a signal to

25. Followed with a sprinkling of these

27. And time to catch up on

29. Common PowerPoint Mistakes
Avoid
Using
Too
Many
Bullet
Points To
Try
Get
Your
Message
Across To
Your
Class
Too
Many
And
Key
Messages
Will Be
Lost
And all
That
Animation
And
Annoying
Sound
Effects
Make
Students
Want
To leave
To go
To the
Bathroom

30. Ditch the bullet points!

31. Cardinal Sin 3

32. Spell Checks

33. Common PowerPoint Mistakes
Many Teachers do not even run a spell cheek before their presentation!
BIG MISTAK – Nothing makes you look more stupid that selling errrs

34. Cardinal Sin 4

35. People who love data

36. Think that more is better?

37. More Data

38. Effectiveness

39. Let's demonstrate this

40. By adding more!

43. In some desperate attempt

44. To convince you of their point

45. Cardinal Sin 5

46. Bad Colour Schemes Clashing backgrounds and font colours can lead to
Thumping headache
Motion sickness
Distraction
Unexplained rashes
Mental confusion
Continual fidgeting
Loss of bladder control

47. Cardinal Sin 6

48. Animation

49. Can be good

50. For visual learners

51. Animation Going You are trying to WOW! Can be say effective
This is just
so cool
And not actually
Of what
Animation
Any notice
But use too
much
And you end up
with your
students
Taking

52. And your PowerPoint becomes this

53. Animation WOW! Blah Blah Blah Blah Look at me Woo Hoo Fidget Yawn
Boring
Like this one?
Wheee

54. More Animation

55. Less Effect

56. So how do you get away from mindless text and bullets?

58. We’ve all heard the proverb

59. A picture is

60. words

61. The Secret is to use MORE Pictures

62. And Fewer Words!

63. Capture their imagination

64. While you provide the explanation

65. Whatever you do, don’t READ your slides

66. Be CREATIVE with your Imagery

67. And hold a conversation with your Audience

68. In other words, engage them!!
storage space
In other words, engage them!!

69. Evoke emotion‏
storage space

70. Sometimes the best slides have no text at all
computer

71. Have you gotten it yet?

72. Less is more

73. Good communication taps into multiple senses

74. If you can’t explain it in short and simple terms

75. Then you don’t understand your own message

76. Only use images that match your message

77. …and evoke emotion

78. Too much text & data are

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80. Never use clipart!

81. Limit 81

82. Your
Words
Per
Slide

83. Less text and data are

84. G d

85. Make only ONE point per slide

86. Dodge the bullets

87. Don’t use bad colour schemes

88. Check your spelling

89. That convey your meaning
Use pictures
That convey your meaning

90. Now it's your turn

91. 2

93. Killing your students

94. With Thanks To Don McMillan (life after death by Powerpoint)‏
Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) by Alexei Kapterev
Dodging bullets in presentations by Rowan Manahan (fortifyservices. Blogspot.com)‏
Flikr-Storm
Music from track – “Warped”
Music from track – “She will stop”
Music from track – “Misfit”

95. Adapted from Slideshare
Jacqueline Hicks, 2008
Lead Teacher of ICT