PowerPoint

Enhancing Classroom Education

Lynn ZottnickInstructional Technology

Lakeview Academy

July 2008

Certain materials are included under the fair use exemption of the U. S. Copyright Law and have been prepared according to the fair use multimedia guidelinesand are restricted from further use.

Outline

•Presentations: A Brief History

•Why Use PowerPoint?

•PowerPoint Tips

•PowerPoint in the Classroom

•Resources

Presentations

•Cave Paintings

In the beginning…

•Hieroglyphics

Presentations

•Tapestries

In the beginning…

•Chalk Board

History

•PowerPoint 1 – 1987 Presenter

Typewriter pages were enlarged, and copied on to transparencies

Tedious, slow, expensive, poor qualityOnly one font - Courier 10

•Overhead Presentations – prior to 1987

Black and white only

Macintosh

Generated pages for transparencies

History

•PowerPoint 3 – 1992

First presentation product for Windows

Font trouble

Bullets

Graphing

•PowerPoint 2 - 1990

For Mac and Windows

TrueType Fonts

Transition Effects

Sound and Video

History

PowerPoint 7.0 May 1994

PowerPoint 4.0 February 1994

PowerPoint97 May 1997

History

PowerPoint 2003

PowerPoint 2000 PowerPoint 2007

History

Presentation 2008

Why Use PowerPoint?

•Present information or instruction

•Organize material

•Reinforces Learning

•Create tutorials, reviews, or quizzes.

•Display student work

•Active Learning

•Classroom Management

PowerPoint Tips

•Choose a font that is easy to read

Creating a Good Presentation: Fonts

Script

Fun All CAPS

•Stick with one or two types of fonts.

•Use a font size of at least 22 points

High Contrast

This is size 32This is size 24This is size 12.It’s just too small!

40 points 22 points 12 points

PowerPoint Tips

•Use the same background

Creating a Good Presentation: Backgrounds

Design Templates

Create your own look

•Choose colors carefully

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PowerPoint TipsBackgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully

Use high-contrast colors

This is hard to read!

Red and black are generally poor color combinations

Red text is especially hard to read

PowerPoint TipsBackgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully

Use high-contrast colors

White/light text looks sharp!

Especially good for “low light” presentations

PowerPoint TipsBackgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully

Use high-contrast colors

This is hard to read!

Be careful with textures and special effects

This is hard to read!

PowerPoint Tips

“Be careful not to put too much text on one slide. It’s so annoying to see a presentation with tons and tons and tons of text. It’s like, you know, you are supposed to focus on the presenter, you know, and if there’s so much text I just get bored and my mind wanders. You know what I mean? Do you really want to read all this stuff? I would just skip over it and move on to the next slide.” This quote is by Martha Lipold, the 7th Grade Science Teacher at Lakeview Academy.

Creating a Good Presentation: Text

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PowerPoint Tips

•Use an phrases rather than paragraphs

Creating a Presentation: Bullets

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•Use the 6x6 rule

No more than 6 bulletsNo more than 6 words per bullet

Good

PowerPoint Tips

•Choose graphics and sound carefully

Creating a Good Presentation: Media

…not BE the presentation

•Media should contribute to the presentation

PowerPoint TipsCreating a Great Presentation

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Think outside the box!

PowerPoint Tips

No bullets

Creating a Great Presentation

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One word or phrase per slide

Slides are cheap

PowerPoint TipsCreating a Great Presentation

This is size 32This is size 24This is size 12.It’s just too small!

Create images

Limit clipart

Incorporate Media

PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Teachers

•Informational

•How-to/Step-by-Step

•Electronic Portfolio - Collections

•Interactive – Action Buttons/Hyperlinks

PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Teachers

•Thought of the Day

•Periodic Table

•Spelling Practice

•Virtual Field Trip

•Addition

•All About Animals

PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Students

•Social Studies The Oregon Trail The Decades Project State Trivia Native Americans

•Science World Biomes Weather Kingdoms and Phylums

PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Students

•Language Arts Genre Digital Book

Advertisement News Story

•Art History Display student work

PowerPoint In the ClassroomEducational Games

•The Big Wheel

•Willington Stakes

•Hidden Picture

•Hollywood Squares

•Jeopardy!

•Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

PowerPoint In the ClassroomTimers

•Seasonal Timer

•Digital Clock

•Hour Glass

PowerPoint In the ClassroomCopyright Law: Educational Fair Use

A single copy can be made of any of the following….

•A chapter from a book

•An article from a periodical or newspaper

•A short story, short essay, or short poem whether or not it is from a collective work

•A picture, graph, chart, diagram, or cartoon from a book, periodical or newspaper

PowerPoint In the ClassroomOnline Citation Generators

ResourcesIntegration Ideas

•Internet4Classrooms – chock full of goodies

•PowerPoint Resources

•Curriculum Collection

•PowerPoint in the Classroom

•The PowerPoint Collection – Wow!

ResourcesRubrics

•A+ PowerPoint Rubric

•Rubric for Basic PowerPoint

•TechTrekers Rubric Builder

•Georgia Technology Fair Rubric

ResourcesGames

•Parade of Games in PowerPoint

•PowerPoint Games

•Emerging Tech Games

•Timers

•PointMan Games

ResourcesTutorials

Technology for Teachers: PowerPoint Tutorial

ResourcesTemplates

Crystal Graphics

ResourcesMultimedia

Video, graphics, music & sound

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