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Effectively Presenting Course Content

Effectively Presenting Course Content . Dr. John Paul Foxe Educational Developer Learning & Teaching Office. PowerPoint as a Tool for Presenting Course Content. What NOT to do! Creating Effective PowerPoint Building Your Slides PowerPoint Best Practices Keeping Your Students Engaged.

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Effectively Presenting Course Content

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  1. Effectively Presenting Course Content Dr. John Paul Foxe Educational Developer Learning & Teaching Office

  2. PowerPoint as a Tool for Presenting Course Content • What NOT to do! • Creating Effective PowerPoint • Building Your Slides • PowerPoint Best Practices • Keeping Your Students Engaged

  3. Images and text do not mix • Images in the background (after applying a little tasteful fading) • Paragraphs of text overlaid on the images • Makes the images hard to look at and the text hard to read • Perfect, a lose-lose situation!

  4. Images and text do not mix • Could have consolidated the text in one part of the image, using the image's horizontal guiding lines • The slide manages to look sloppy as well as unreadable • Bonus points for misspelling "carburetor"

  5. To be fair, social networking is complicated • First rule of flow charts….they should be intelligible • A good PowerPoint series makes sense on its own • The flow chart presented here is simply baffling, and the pictures don't help much

  6. To be fair, social networking is complicated • What's going where? • Who's getting what? • What's the difference between a one in a big black square and a one in a little red circle? • What is a "follower feed?” • Why are the some of the "salmon" going downstream?

  7. A kaleidoscope of confusion • Colours are great for attracting an audience • Stick with two or three, not six or seven • Use colours consistently • The colours in this "social business map" don't clarify anything

  8. A kaleidoscope of confusion • Why are "Social Web" and "Social Enterprise" in different colours but "Cloud/SaaS" and "On-Premise" in the same colour? • Why do blue and green diamonds populate orange and white areas as well as blue and green areas? • Why does "Trend" appear as two converging white areas while "Standards" appears as a single vanishing brown area? • The big labels along the bottom appear in random colours that correspond to nothing else on the chart. Why?

  9. Flow chart on steroids • Left side, not so bad • The text is in short bullet points • Coloursand fonts are restrained • Presenter used a basic slide template

  10. Flow chart on steroids • Presumably the red arrows are there to explain what's going on in the maze of black arrows • The red arrows are somewhat helpful, except for the jarring overlay of red on black • As for the 10,000 black arrows, they probably make a point, or something, but really?

  11. The endless "summary" • Too much text • Font too small • Impenetrable slab of 10-point text to provide an "executive summary” • If the audience reads all the text, what is there left to say?

  12. 100 graphs in one little slide • Graphs and charts are usually PowerPoint presentation gold • They're visual, informative, and hard to screw up • So, obviously, the more graphs and charts, the better, right?

  13. Bad bullet points • Reducing paragraphs to bullet points helps your audience follow the presentation more easily • This doesn't mean sticking bullet-point icons in front of paragraphs • As a rule of thumb, if you have to resize your text to 12- or 10-point type to get it to fit, you have too much text

  14. Bad bullet points • The text is tiny • The bullet points are longer than ten/twelve words each • At least one of them is a full-fledged paragraph

  15. Creating Effective PowerPoint • The first step is to think about the significance of the presentation • Why does the content matter? • How will you grab the audience’s attention? What do you want them to do? • How will your slides help you make meaning?

  16. Creating Effective PowerPoint • The second step is to think about the structure • A good presentation structure is: • convincing • memorable • scalable

  17. Creating Effective PowerPoint • PowerPoint should serve as a visual aid • PowerPoint should NOT serve as a teleprompter • Slides should reinforce not repeat your words • “If you wouldn’t write it on a blackboard, you shouldn’t write it on a slide”

  18. Building Your Slides • Don’t include too many points at once • Slides with dense graphics will distract or confuse your audience • There are no perfect rules to creating effective slides beyond this one: Keep it simple

  19. Building Your Slides • Lawrence Lessig • White typewriter font on black background • Short notes • Bold images • Purposeful use of colour

  20. PowerPoint Slides Best Practices • Avoid premade templates and clipart • Use high quality photographs or images that pop! • Avoid sound effects, distracting backgrounds, or gratuitous animations and transitions

  21. PowerPoint Slides Best Practices 4. Pick high contrast colors for the text and background of your slides 5. Use sans-serif fonts, as they are easier to read 6. Emphasize text with italics rather than underlining

  22. PowerPoint Slides Best Practices 7. Use a large font size 8. Leave a border around any text 9. Cite your sources

  23. Keeping Students Engaged: Interactive PowerPoint • Engage your students from the very beginning • Use “real world” examples • An anecdote • An image • A memory • Anything that grounds your talk in the “right now”

  24. Keeping Students Engaged: Interactive PowerPoint • The Monta Method • More conversational than typical PowerPoint

  25. Keeping Students Engaged: Interactive PowerPoint • Annotate slides during the presentation • These can be saved along with the PowerPoint

  26. Keeping Students Engaged: Interactive PowerPoint • QR Codes • Link slides to • Additional material • Library catalog records • Online surveys • Full lecture notes • An assignment

  27. PowerPoint for Student Presentation • “pecha kucha” • 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide • Used to summarize topics • Explain in a compelling, creative and comprehensive way • Speed can become a proxy for enthusiasm

  28. Summary • What NOT to do!

  29. Summary • What NOT to do! • Creating Effective PowerPoint • Building Your Slides • PowerPoint Best Practices • Keeping Your Students Engaged

  30. Resources • Delwiche, A. & Ananthanarayanan, V. (2004). Pedagogical Value of PowerPoint – Recommendations. EDUCAUSE. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/SWR0416.pdf • Jones, J.B. (2009, November). Challenging the Presentation Paradigm (in 6 minutes, 40 seconds): PechaKucha. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/challenging-the-presentation-paradigm-in-6-minutes-40-seconds-pecha-kucha/22807 • Kapterev, A. (2007). Death by PowerPoint [slide show]. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint • Mann, M. (2007, August 23). How I Made My Presentations a Little Better. 43 Folders. Retrieved from http://www.43folders.com/2007/08/23/better-presentations • Reynolds, G. (2005, October 2). The "Monta Method." Presentation Zen. Retrieved from http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/10/the_monta_metho.html • Reynolds, G. (2005, October 7). The "Lessig Method" of presentation. Presentation Zen. Retrieved from http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/10/the_lessig_meth.html • Schwartz, M. (2011, July 7). Fun with QR Codes. LTO Blog. Retrieved from http://lto.blog.ryerson.ca/2011/07/07/fun-with-qr-codes/

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