PowerPoint
Jun 12th, 2009 by lmmiller
Introduction:
The following video says it all about how PowerPoint can become pointless when conveying messages.
However, Power Point can be an effective tool to use in the classroom to present information visually. Dr. John Medina, the author of Brain Rules, has some insights into how the brain processes information.
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Lecture, Authors@Google: Dr. John Medina (Brain Rules)
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Lecture, Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen)
This tutorial is divided into four main sections:
Planning | Creating | Sharing | Classrooms Connections
Planning Presentations
It’s important to know the purpose of your presentation as well as your audience. Take a look at Dr. John Medina’s Brain Rules in order to develop a better understanding of how our brain function plays into our ability to learn from a presentation.
Top 10 Tips from Garr Reynolds is a helpful tool when thinking about the design of a presentation.
Particle Tree – Features links to several articles about making effective PowerPoint presentations.
Technical considerations
- If students are going to use a template, how is that going to be distributed? It could be put in a general folder on the server as a template or a copy could be placed in each student’s folder on the server.
- Currently, the student machines still have PowerPoint 2003 which looks dramatically different that PowerPoint 2007 which is on newly rolled out CWS machines. (6-2-09)
Creating Presentations
- Presentation Zen- Blog dedicated to effective PowerPoint and alternative approaches to making engaging presentations.
- Patrick Crispen -Presents research summarizing what factors help students retain information that it taught through PowerPoint presentations. Using this research, the author offers advice about how to make content more memorable.
reference guide (Microsoft)
PowerPoint 2007 Full Tutorial (Florida Gulf Coast University)
Simple Steps to creating a slide show using Power Point 2003
- Adding Content (lists, video, audio)
- Graphics (Picture, ClipArt, SmartArt, Photo Album)
- Slide Effects (transitions, animation, slide show options)
- Printing
- To practice animating, download this Practice Animation PowerPoint. (.ppt) which already has pictures, text and objects or use one your have already created.
- Here are directions (.pdf) about animating objects, text, etc…in a slideshow. When you are finished practicing, try creating your own interactive PowerPoint or slide.
The following PowerPoint shows an example of some extreme animation and a few slides demonstrating how a little animation can go a long way.
Sharing Presentations
- Slideboom
- Slideshare
- Comparison of the two options
- Others….there are always new tools available.
Classroom Connections
Student Examples:- Candy Cane Starfish- 2nd graders researched an ocean animal put that info into a PowerPoint and presented to the class. The PowerPoint includes a quiz about the material.
- The Vietnam War – 7th graders picked a topic in U.S. History that related to the quote “Freedom is not Free.”
- Create your own Jeopardy game
- Converting Power Point slides to images for use with Photo Story 3
- PowerPoint Templates: Education (Microsoft)
- Ocean Reports
- Combining Power Point 2007, Delicious and movies to create a multimedia project.
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