PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers and Students

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PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers and
Students
Plan, Design, Create, Present, Engage, Evaluate,
and Educate
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Multimedia Projects
Research shows

• Support multiple intelligences
• Cooperative learning
• Construction of knowledge
• Show greater descriptive detail
• Unique perspectives, diverse interests, skills
• Students become producers of knowledge, not
  consumers

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Overview of PowerPoint

• Primarily electronic slide shows
• Cross platform
• Numerous predefined templates

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PowerPoint Has A Lot to OfferCarefully Planned
or...
A Mess
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Planning Multimedia Projects

• Instructional Goals
• Decide on the Project
• Develop Skills for the project
• Assess resources

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Organize the Project

• Group alternatives
• Heterogeneous
• Homogeneous
• Grouping variables
• ability
• Learning styles
• Group numbers

• Introduce social skills
• Listening
• politeness
• Place in groups
• Schedule computer time.
• On and off activities

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Brainstorming/Research

• Brainstorming
• Current knowledge
• what knowledge is needed (KWL chart)
• Whole class? Individuals? Small groups?

• Research
• On or off computers
• Library
• Classroom
• At home
• Bibliography sheet
• Journal/record keeper

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Design!What Makes a Well-designed, Effective
Presentation?
Several Things.
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Keep the User Interface Simple

• Not for showing off all the features of
  PowerPoint
• Users should only see what they need

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Consistency is Important
Exit

• Objects that perform the same should look the
  same
• Keep in the same position

Home
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Immediate Feedback to the User

• Did the computer hear the user?
• Short beep

Exit
Home
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Use Familiar Metaphors

• Use objects the user is familiar with.
• Clearly understood

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Colors

• Background colors (no red)
• Five or less colors per screen
• Dark background lighter text visa versa
• Consistent text color

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Text

• Not too wordy
• Left justify
• Double space
• No blinking
• No text on graphics
• Large fonts
• Same font throughout

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Graphics

• No unrelated pictures
• Same place
• Label charts and graphs

Exit
Plant Growth
Home
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Navigation
Exit

• Common navigation icons
• Big enough
• Permanent buttons at screen edge
• Back up and forward
• Exit button - each screen
• Instructions

Instructions ?
Home
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Video Files
Exit

• Keep the video segments short
• Include replay button

Home
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Audio Files
Exit

• Students love to hear their voices!
• Conversation style
• No audio conflicts
• Sounds for transitions
• 10 Seconds or less

Home
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Planning!Flowcharts and Storyboards

• How organized?
• Flowcharts
• Storyboards
• Credits, citations

Where to Begin?
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Flowcharts - Linear

• Specific sequence
• Step-by-step
• Frog dissection steps

Title
Step 2
Step n
Credits
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Flowcharts - Tree/Cluster

• Main idea
• Branches into other topics
• Perhaps main menu
• Cluster two subjects
• Tree more than two
• States, music genres

Title
Menu
Subject 1
Subject n
Info
Info
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Flowcharts - Star

• Main idea
• Branches into several others
• School presentations - activities, sports
  schedule, teacher contacts

Subject 2
Subject n
Subject 1
Menu
Subject 5
Subject 3
Subject 4
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Storyboards

• Each one square in the flowchart
• Meets requirements of project
• Include design and content information

Sketch it here.
Background Border Pictures Title and text
information Navigation and Button information
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Evaluate

• Rubrics for every stage of the project

Research Flowchart Storyboard Self
Evaluation Peer Evaluation Group Self
Evaluation Teacher Evaluation Content Mechanics De
sign Presentation Final Grades
A
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Now Its Your Turn...

• Pick your curriculum project
• Quick flowchart
• Storyboards
• Put it together (see How To handout)
• Present

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Credits
Ivers, Karen and Barron, Ann, Multimedia
Projects in Education, Teachers Ideas Press,
1998 Sun Associates 55 Middlesex Street North
Chelmsford, MA 01863 info_at_sun-associates.com Gr
aphics from Barrys Clip Art Server