PowerPoint

Not Just Electronic Lecture Notes!

PowerPoint has gotten some bad press in recent years…

Excerpted from "PowerPoint is Evil", Wired Magazine online(No, this is not a proper MLA citation!)

On the down side…

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water… don’t blame the tool…

Scoring Power Points by Jamie McKenzie (web article)

Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson

(Also check out his website at www.sociablemedia.com)

Which slide would help YOU learn?

Slide A Slide B

Engage your audience… use more of their senses…

Headline (Text/Concept)

Visual (Graphic)

Audio (Spoken word)

Put your headlines in using Outline view

Create your visuals and notes in Normal view

Outline pane

Notes pane

Slide pane

How much flexibility do I have when I’m actually running the presentation?

Try a wireless mouse!

Use animation and action buttons to create interactive and quizzing presentations…

Quiz your students…

Interactive PowerPoint Example

Skills for Interactive Presentations

How about a few games?

JeopardyVersion #1

JeopardyVersion #2

Who Wants To BeA Millionaire?

Hollywood Squares

Where can I look at some other teacher PowerPoints? Try looking at other school websites Many textbook companies are

including these with newer textbooks Check out some other D128 staff web

pages Check out the samples on

www.worldofteaching.com Google!

Yes, these are

bullets…

There must be more out there than that…

Where can I go to learn more?

http://www.actden.com/pp/

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tutorials/ew_ppt.htm

http://www.svsu.edu/library/stc/Introduction%20to%20PP.pdf

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#top