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Title: PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers and Students


1
PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers and
Students
Plan, Design, Create, Present, Engage, Evaluate,
and Educate
2
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

3
Overview of PowerPoint
  • Primarily electronic slide shows
  • Cross platform
  • Numerous predefined templates

4
PowerPoint Has A Lot to OfferCarefully Planned
or...
A Mess
5
Planning Multimedia Projects
  • Instructional Goals
  • Decide on the Project
  • Develop Skills for the project
  • Assess resources

6
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

7
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

8
Design!What Makes a Well-designed, Effective
Presentation?
Several Things.
9
Keep the User Interface Simple
  • Not for showing off all the features of
    PowerPoint
  • Users should only see what they need

10
Consistency is Important
Exit
  • Objects that perform the same should look the
    same
  • Keep in the same position

Home
11
Immediate Feedback to the User
  • Did the computer hear the user?
  • Short beep

Exit
Home
12
Use Familiar Metaphors
  • Use objects the user is familiar with.
  • Clearly understood

13
Colors
  • Background colors (no red)
  • Five or less colors per screen
  • Dark background lighter text visa versa
  • Consistent text color

14
Text
  • Not too wordy
  • Left justify
  • Double space
  • No blinking
  • No text on graphics
  • Large fonts
  • Same font throughout

15
Graphics
  • No unrelated pictures
  • Same place
  • Label charts and graphs

Exit
Plant Growth
Home
16
Navigation
Exit
  • Common navigation icons
  • Big enough
  • Permanent buttons at screen edge
  • Back up and forward
  • Exit button - each screen
  • Instructions

Instructions ?
Home
17
Video Files
Exit
  • Keep the video segments short
  • Include replay button

Home
18
Audio Files
Exit
  • Students love to hear their voices!
  • Conversation style
  • No audio conflicts
  • Sounds for transitions
  • 10 Seconds or less

Home
19
Planning!Flowcharts and Storyboards
  • How organized?
  • Flowcharts
  • Storyboards
  • Credits, citations

Where to Begin?
20
Flowcharts - Linear
  • Specific sequence
  • Step-by-step
  • Frog dissection steps

Title
Step 2
Step n
Credits
21
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
22
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
23
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
24
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
25
Now Its Your Turn...
  • Pick your curriculum project
  • Quick flowchart
  • Storyboards
  • Put it together (see How To handout)
  • Present

26
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
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