}  Slide presentation software such as PowerPoint has become an ingrained part of many instructional settings, particularly in large classes and in courses more geared toward information exchange than skill development.

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• Engaging multiple learning styles • Increasing visual impact • Improving audience focus • Providing annotations and highlights • Analyzing and synthesizing complexities • Increasing spontaneity and interactivity • Increasing wonder

CHALLENGE

• Teacher-centered. • Lack of feedback. • Student inactivity. • Potentially reductive. • Presentation graphics should be about learning, not about presentation. • PowerPoint presentations should help students organize their notes, not just “be” the notes.

Three Possible Approaches

Text-heavy

Some images

Image-heavy

PowerPoint Interactions: Student Response "Clickers"

Classroom response systems can improve students' learning by engaging them actively in the learning process.Learn more about how to use this system in your own classes.

PowerPoint as Worksheet

} The PowerPoint software itself includes built-in functionality to record your audio commentary.

}  It is also possible to use AuthorPoint Lite, a free software download, to take the narrated PowerPoint presentation and transform it all into a Flash video movie, which plays in any Web browser.

v Avoid reading v Dark screen v Navigate slides smoothly

• Text size • Avoid too much text • Contrast • Template

}  Change font }  Shapes }  Clip art }  Images }  Charts }  Tables }  Transitions }  Animations }  Animating text or chart

• Do not turn off all lights • Maintain eye contact with audience • Vary your speaking volume • Do not read slides! • Take slides off screen when not needed

Twenty minutes

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

Thirty-point font