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A presentation I gave to my faculty at a staff development last month. Originally posted on my blog here: http://tinyurl.com/35lkaq The attention my little slide show has gotten has been truly humbling! What started as a presentation for my staff has taken on a life of its own! THANKS to those who have viewed and shared!
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Taking Your Slide Deck to the Next Level
Content, Delivery, and Design
What would you most like to improve about your presentations?
What do you hope to get out of today’s session?
Quick Write
Creating (un)Engaging Content• This slide is an example of what we have come to typically expect from a
PowerPoint presentation
• There is a lot of text (small text) that conveys a lot of information
• Plus we’ve got bullets
• Presenters read line-by-line exactly what is on the slide
• Students work furiously to copy the slide verbatim into their notes
• It becomes the 21st century equivalent of the overhead projector
• What’s going on for students cognitively while the presenter reads the notes and they copy?
The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched.
John Sweller, University of NSW
We read: Between 250 and 400 words per minute
We can hear: About 150 to 160 words per minute
We can speak: About 105 words per minute
We can copy by hand: About 22 words per minute
The PowerPoint Curve
Stud
ent
Enga
gem
ent
Words Per Slide
Lecturing is not good for children and
other living things.Edward Redish, Ph.D.
U of MD Physics Professor
Why present?
To make meaning
If you're not trying to persuade,
why present at all?
Ask a question
Poll the class
Think-Jot-Pair-Share
Quick writes
10-20-30
Design
Design Don’t decorate
Albert EinsteinBorn March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
Theoretical physicist
Special theory of relativity - reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism
General theory of relativity
Extended theory to non-uniform motion
Created new theory of gravitation
Won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921
Died April 17, 1955
“Everything should be as
simple as possible, but not
simpler.”
Albert Einstein
But don’t get crazy
This is almost as bad.
Maybe white will be better.
Yes. That’s better.
Design Don’t decorate
Would you want to be in your class?
PowerPoint for Teachershttp://www.slideshare.net/paulwill/powerpoint-for-teachers
Presentation Tipshttp://www.slideshare.net/jhaustin/presentation-tips/
How To: Visual Effects in PowerPoint 2003http://www.slideshare.net/mjamesno/how-to-visual-effects-in-powerpoint-2003/
Life After Death by PowerPointhttp://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint
How I Made My Presentations a Little Betterhttp://www.43folders.com/2007/08/23/better-presentations
Presentation Zenhttp://www.presentationzen.com/
dy/danhttp://blog.mrmeyer.com/?cat=24
Where I Got This Stuff
