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DR. JITENDRA PATEL (MBBS, MD)

Medical Educator & Researcher

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology

Email: dr.jrpatel84@gmail.com Web: www.esphys.weebly.com 2

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1. Why .ppt?

2. How to approach?

3. Major elements?

4. Basic Tools: principle and Guidelines

5. Golden tips

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Visual perception contributes to about 90% to all

human learning;

Maximum attention span of an adult learner is 20

min;

20% of what is heard is remembered;

> 40 % of what is seen is retained in memory;

> 70 % retained in memory if both seen & heard.

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Some Facts

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Why .PPT…?

• Dynamic, innovative and Interactive display to

support or enhance formal lecture.

• Improve the delivery of spoken message by visual

reinforcement of the key points.

• Suited for any audiences.

• Highly absorbing.

• Increased speed and depth

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Advantage

• Attractive

• Variety is possible

• Emphasis on imp point

• Easy to carry; USB/CD

• Readymade presentation can be used

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Disadvantage

• Need advance preparation.

• Difficult to improvise during course of teaching.

• Need some basic computer knowledge

• Required back-up

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How to Approach?

Define session contents

Creating the .ppt

Slide designing

Fine tuning your .ppt

Rehearse, pack and go…

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Major Elements

• Novelty: something new.

• Utility: provide relevant learning cues.

• Conversational value: create interest in topic.

• Emotional value: strike a chord with audience.

• Entertainment value: should not bore the audience.

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Five Basic Principle

• Create logical flow to your presentation.

• Slides should be concurrent with verbal content.

• Presentation should be readable.

• Remember, less is more.

• Media is not the message, content is the message.

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1. Title

2. Outline - objective

3. Body of presentation - content

4. Conclusion/summary/take home

massage, reference

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1. Theme/design/layout

2. Background

3. Font; type and size

4. Bullet

5. Visual

6. Video

7. Slide Animation (be careful)

8. Master slide

9. Slide notes

10. Proof reading

11. Miscellaneous

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Contrast is important !!!

• Dark background Vs light font: “hot”

• Light background Vs dark font: “cool”

Eye is attracted to light on the screen

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Which is better???

Which is better???

Busy backgrounds are distracting

• all the stuff distracts you from my message and the picture

• you are having trouble seeing this

• keep it simple

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Font selection

• This is a sans serif font (Arial):

electronic media

• This is a serif font (Times new roman):

printable media

• Size: ≥ 44 pt for headings and ≥ 28 pt for content.

• Use bold when you want some words to stand out.

funky fonts are distracting and hard to read

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AVOID CAPITALIZATION EXCEPT FOR SHORT

TITLES AND ABBREVIATIONS

Sentence case is much more readable!

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Avoid Text Overload :D

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Balance

≠ Do not centre bullet points.

≠ it makes text ragged & hard to read & follow

with your eyes.

• Bullets on left, this keeps things neat & easy

to follow.

≠ Do not centre bullet

points.

≠ it makes text ragged &

hard to read & follow

with your eyes.

• Bullets on left, this keeps

things neat & easy to

follow.

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Graphics off centre, centred graphics leave little room for

text.

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Colours

× Chromatic aberration of the eye causes

different colors in the slide to appear to be at different depths; and makes it hard to read.

Don’t do it!

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Picture

• Simple

• Clear

• Meaningful

• Relevant

“A picture is worth more than 10,000

words “ - Chinese proverb

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Master slide

• Master of all slide except title slide.

• You can use picture, logo, date.

• Common formatting to all slide;

– Heading;

– Font and its size;

– Background.

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Golden Tips

• Backgrounds – Appropriate contrast

• Content is King!

• Best fonts: san serif

• One topic per slide

• Key words: bold/italic

• Images – key.

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Golden Tips...cont

• Words on a slide – 25 or less.

• Follow the Rule of “6”:

six lines per page; six words per line.

• Bullets– 6 is max.

• 28 point for text/ 40 point for headings.

1. Theme/design/layout

2. Background

3. Font; type and size

4. Bullet

5. Visual

6. Video

7. Slide Animation (be careful)

8. Master slide

9. Slide notes

10. Proof reading

11. Miscellaneous

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• Use the media appropriately.

• Your presentation will speak about you.

• PPT is an excellent tool if used correctly; • I

• If not used correctly………………

It is Power less and point less..!!!

• Writing board and PPT both are additive of each other

• Before teaching something, first you should learn a lot

of things

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Final Message & conclusion….

Simply better!!!

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To make the medical education more……….

Interactive

Innovative

Interesting

Informative

Always Learn by……

• “Doing”

• “Trial and error”

• “Experience”

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Remember !!!

Best method of learning is self learning - A. C. GUYTON

1. Principles of medical education; 3rd edition; Tejendra Singh, Piyush Gupta, Daljit Singh.

2. Introduction to Educational Technology: Dr. Alaa Sadik , Department of Instructional &

Learning Technologies.

3. Tips on Using Power Point in Teaching (Audio-Visual Aids): Mousa Al-Rawahi, MSc

4. Design & Digital Media, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Medical Education Unit,

Medical Informatics.

5. RTC NHL MMC manual 2013.

6. http://serc.carleton.edu/econ/media/using_media_enh.html.

7. Teaching learning media by Dr. Ashok Patil, Prof & HOD, Dept Of medicine HKES

homoeopathic medical College Gulbarga; www.comwww.similima.com

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References

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Teaching is best profession & Education is best investment

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