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Killing Your Students with PowerPoint

can be highly boring for your studentsand should only

be used by authorised

PowerPoint

Teachers

Warning

PowerPoint

It's my duty to warn you

How to avoid

a Slow Death by PowerPoint

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

The Top Cardinal Sins

Cardinal Sin 1

The Script

The problem is that most people speak at

150 WPM

Yet most people read at

250 WPM

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. . .

Common PowerPoint Mistakes

1. Continued - first slide


Cardinal Sin 2

Dodging Bullets

Example

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?

Not exactly exciting is it?

To a student this is a signal to

Followed with a sprinkling of these

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83941862@N00/244910027

And time to catch up on

• Avoid• Using• Too• Many• Bullet• Points• To• Try • To • Get• Your • Message• Across

Common PowerPoint Mistakes• To • Your • Class• Too• Many• And • Your • Key• Messages • Will • Be• Lost• And all

• That • Animation• And • Annoying • Sound • Effects• Make • Students• Want • To leave • To go • To the• Bathroom

Ditch the bullet points!

Cardinal Sin 3

Spell Checks

Many Teachers do not even run a spell cheek before their presentation!

BIG MISTAK – Nothing makes you look more stupid that selling errrs


Cardinal Sin 4

People who love data

Think that more is better?Student Levels

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

Jan Feb Mar April May June

Month

Am

ou

nt

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7

Level 8

More Data

Effectiveness

Let's demonstrate this

By adding more!

Student Levels

0

50

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Month

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nt

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7

Level 8

Level 4 125 42 29 28 54 22

Level 5 265 152 128 57 52 45

Level 6 85 155 150 123 68 85

Level 7 35 24 41 25 125 75

Level 8 21 87 65 65 165 95


Student Levels

Level 4, Jan , 125

Level 4, Feb, 42Level 4, Mar, 29 Level 4, April, 28

Level 4, May, 54

Level 4, June, 22

Level 5, Jan , 265

Level 5, Feb, 152

Level 5, Mar, 128

Level 5, April, 57 Level 5, May, 52Level 5, June, 45

Level 6, Jan , 85

Level 6, Feb, 155 Level 6, Mar, 150

Level 6, April, 123

Level 6, May, 68Level 6, June, 85

Level 7, Jan , 35Level 7, Feb, 24

Level 7, Mar, 41Level 7, April, 25

Level 7, May, 125

Level 7, June, 75

Level 8, Jan , 21

Level 8, Feb, 87

Level 8, Mar, 65 Level 8, April, 65

Level 8, May, 165

Level 8, June, 95

0

50

100

150

200

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300

Month

Am

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Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7

Level 8

Level 4 125 42 29 28 54 22

Level 5 265 152 128 57 52 45

Level 6 85 155 150 123 68 85

Level 7 35 24 41 25 125 75

Level 8 21 87 65 65 165 95


In some desperate attempt

To convince you of their point

Cardinal Sin 5

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

Cardinal Sin 6

Animation

Can be good

For visual learners

Animation

Can be effective

But use toomuchAnd you end up

with your students

Going WOW!

This is just so cool

And not actually

Taking

Any notice

Of what

You are trying tosay

And your PowerPoint becomes this

Animation

Blah

Boring

Like this one?

WOW!

Look at me

Woo Hoo

Wheee

Yawn

Fidget

Blah Blah Blah

More Animation

Less Effect

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

Example

We’ve all heard the proverb

A picture is

Taken from an example of a real GCSE Business lesson

GCSE Unit 4f – Economic and Technological forces

Businesses have benefited in the following ways:

Reduction in storage space and costs as materials are Just In Time (JIT) Increased output as new technology and techniques allow businesses to increase production Increased labour productivity as new techniques and technologies enable workers to be more productive Increased quality as robots produce to a higher standard Automation has decreased production down-time – no tea breaks, 24hr a day working

New technology is expensiveCan lead to redundanciesDemand for skilled workers increasesMoney into education to equip the next workforce with the right skills

Doesn’t it make you feel like this?

Let’s break it down

Technological Forces


Manufacturing products only when ordered (JIT)

Increases

Output & production


Productivity

Demand for skilled workers

Skills education

for workforce


Technology costs


Quality


Decreases

Costs and

storage space

Production downtime

storage space


Jobs (redundancies)

storage space


It's all there except

You nor the students read it!

computer

Sometimes the best slides have no text at all


Have you got it yet?

Less is more

Communication involves emotions

If you can’t explain it short and simple

Then you don’t understand it


This is bad communication.

GCSE Unit 4f – Economic and Technological forces

Businesses have benefited in the following ways:

Reduction in storage space and costs as materials are Just In Time (JIT) Increased output as new technology and techniques allow businesses to increase production Increased labour productivity as new techniques and technologies enable workers to be more productive Increased quality as robots produce to a higher standard Automation has decreased production down-time – no tea breaks, 24hr a day working

New technology is expensiveCan lead to redundanciesDemand for skilled workers increasesMoney into education to equip the next workforce with the right skills

This is good communication.

Only use images that match your message


…and evoke emotion


Too much text & data is

• bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad – bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

•bad

• bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

» bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

» bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

Never use clipart!

Your

Words

Per

Slide

Less text and data is

G d


Make only ONE point per slide


Dodge the bullets

Don’t use bad colour schemes

Check your spelling


Use pictures


Try

http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

Now it's your turn

Killing your students

1. Don McMillan (life after death by Powerpoint)

2. Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) by Alexei Kapterev

3. Dodging bullets in presentations by Rowan Manahan (fortifyservices. Blogspot.com)

4. Flikr-Storm

5. www.slideshare.net

6. www.google.co.uk/images

7. Music from www.freeplaymusic.com track – “Warped”

8. Music from www.freeplaymusic.com track – “She will stop”

9. Music from www.freeplaymusic.com track – “Misfit”

With Thanks To

http://www.slideshare.net/

http://www.google.co.uk/images

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/



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