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STOP
Killing Your Students with PowerPoint
can be highly boring for your studentsand should only
be used by authorised
PowerPoint
Teachers
Warning
PowerPoint
Its 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
Common PowerPoint Mistakes
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
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• In Fact
• The • Term• Bullet • Point • Comes • From• The act• Of students• Pointing • Guns at • The• Annoying • Teacher
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
Common PowerPoint Mistakes
Cardinal Sin 4
People who love data
Think that more is better?Student Levels
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Jan Feb Mar April May June
Month
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nt
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7
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More Data
Effectiveness
Lets demonstrate this
By adding more!
Student Levels
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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
Jan Feb Mar April May June
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
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300
Month
Am
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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
Jan Feb Mar April May June
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
words
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
Its 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
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!
Limit
Your
Words
Per
Slide
Less text and data is
G d
Don’t use bad colour schemes
Use pictures
Try
http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
Now its your turn
2
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
