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"Researching" with Computers: The Strengths and Weaknesses of PowerPoint Presentations and Use of the Internet

"Researching" with Computers: The Strengths and Weaknesses of PowerPoint Presentations and Use of the Internet. Without the Internet Focus on topic Consider audience Read (sequential process) from sources Organize Write the paper and present to audience. With the Internet Focus on topic

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"Researching" with Computers: The Strengths and Weaknesses of PowerPoint Presentations and Use of the Internet

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  1. "Researching" with Computers: The Strengths and Weaknesses of PowerPoint Presentations and Use of the Internet

  2. Without the Internet Focus on topic Consider audience Read (sequential process) from sources Organize Write the paper and present to audience With the Internet Focus on topic Consider audience Read (scrolling and segmentation process) from Internet sources Organize Present paper Research

  3. Internet Research involves: • Using search engines • Gathering research • Determining credibility of websites • Crediting sources (avoiding plagiarism) • Organizing research • Synthesizing information • Presenting that information

  4. A PowerPoint Presentation is similar to an essay or a speech in that it must: • Grab the audience/reader • Focus on the topic • Present accurate information • Lead the audience/reader through the presentation/essay/speech

  5. Problems with PowerPoint Research Presentations • Unclear focus • Not directed at an appropriate audience • Not organized • Does not demonstrate knowledge of the topic • Focuses on bells and whistles • Creates more questions that presenters are not prepared to answer

  6. RECOMMENDATIONS • Give students challenging collaborative exercises so that they will become familiar with use of the Internet for research and of PowerPoint software. • Focus on the reading and research first. • Encourage organization of the research. Perhaps have students prepare storyboards or outlines before the start their PowerPoint presentations.

  7. RECOMMENDATIONS • Give short deadlines for parts of the research project (outline, rough draft, works cited page, “final draft”). • Remind students that a PowerPoint presentation is NOT research. It is the presentation of what the student has learned through research (i.e., it is the result of good research).

  8. Presented by Jeff Kurtzman Michael Lowry Don Obrecht Pam Childers

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