Title: How to Insure Power Pointlessness
1How to Insure Power Pointlessness
- Based in large part on a handout by eMINTS AIS
Michelle Kendrick which was summarized from an
article by Jamie McKenzie titled Scoring Power
Points http//www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html
2Never give a firm deadline
- Students can always find plenty to do with any
amount of time - What they find to do will be more interesting
than what you can imagine
3Save Time
Blooms Taxonomy
- Assign a knowledge-level project that can easily
be completed by cutting and pasting. This will
allow more time for students to add bizarre sound
effects and transitions.
http//www.learningandteaching.info/learning/bloom
tax.htm
4Variety
- Use multiple
- Backgrounds
- Colors
- Fonts
- It is boring if the presentation is consistent.
http//pics4learning.com/index.php?searchcatquer
yHallGoesSnorkeling
5Scoring Guides
- Write the scoring guide after students have
completed the project. - Make the criteria sufficiently vague that neither
teacher nor students will have a clue what is
expected. - Skew the points so that students who create an
impressive Power Point Presentation with no
content will earn a high score.
6Presentation
- Instruct students to face SMART Board and read
directly from slides. - Never model effective presentation skills.
76 x 6 Rule
The 6 x 6 Rule wastes valuable slide space. If a
person watching a presentation does not have
enough attention span to read more than six words
down and six words across he/she should work on
increasing his or her attention span. The
presenter should not pander to such immature
needs. Anyone who is not willing to read a slide
filled with text should not bother attending a
presentation. It is easier for the presenter to
include every detail on the slide so that when
he/she reads the entire slide to the audience
he/she will not need to remember anything else or
refer to notes to complete the presentation.
8Planning
- Just go for it!
- Do not encourage storyboarding or use of graphic
organizers to pre-plan content.