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No more “Death By PowerPoint”

No more “Death By PowerPoint”. Using Pecha Kucha to improve assessment and enjoyment of psychology students’ presentations. Chris Atherton and Nikola Bridges University of Central Lancashire. What is Death By PowerPoint?. You’re looking at it right now.

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No more “Death By PowerPoint”

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  1. No more “Death By PowerPoint” • Using Pecha Kucha to improve assessment and enjoyment of psychology students’ presentations Chris Atherton and Nikola Bridges University of Central Lancashire

  2. What is Death By PowerPoint? • You’re looking at it right now. • It’s actually really difficult to process what is being said at the same time as you are trying to read something: switching channels between the two channels is effortful! • Why would we deliberately make it harder for people to learn? • And yet, nearly everybody does this.

  3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonatz/524709483/

  4. turning the tables

  5. student presentations look just like ours

  6. slides != presentation

  7. www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/ telling stories ... Are we forgetting how to tell stories?

  8. employability?

  9. Pecha Kucha(peh-CHAK-chah)

  10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreasmb/750885635/

  11. room for Qs!

  12. PS3800:Frontiers in Psychobiology

  13. workshop

  14. “what presentation mistakes or mishaps have you made or seen?”

  15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrogy/523372748/

  16. (workshop: end state)

  17. one month later ... www.flickr.com/photos/oobrien/1414390564/

  18. (colleague interviews)

  19. last year: 63.44 (7.99)this year: 62.00 (14.51) t (12) = .29, p = .78

  20. student responses

  21. preparing it strongly disliked enjoyed a lot

  22. giving it strongly disliked enjoyed a lot

  23. watching it strongly disliked enjoyed a lot

  24. compared to traditional ... preparing it much less enjoyable much more enjoyable

  25. compared to traditional ... giving it much less enjoyable much more enjoyable

  26. compared to traditional ... watching it much less enjoyable much more enjoyable

  27. demonstrate understanding shorter presentations and more questions traditional presentations and fewer questions

  28. “would like a bit longer per slide, and fewer of them”

  29. “it’s torture preparing and giving the presentation, but I’ve learned a LOT”

  30. “it did force me to rethink and keep it simple”

  31. staff responses

  32. “having a restricted format prevents waffle”

  33. “if students get caught out by the timing, they panic and it slows them down”

  34. “so much more enjoyable for the audience ... a lot less turgid”

  35. “definitely need the workshops to alleviate students’ worries”

  36. “students who’ve given a lacklustre presentation can redeem themselves in Q&A ... though for some it’s obviously just torture”

  37. a work in progress ...

  38. Thanks to:Nikola BridgesMark RoyAndy WickensPS3800 studentsLet’s talk about this stuff! twitter.com/finiteattention

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