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Using PowerPoint for Teaching

Using PowerPoint for Teaching. Stephen Bostock Staff Development Keele University. ?. ?. ©Keele. Summary. Should we teach with presentations? PowerPoint in/supporting lectures Supporting student activity Refining presentations Some PowerPoint facilities Tips for preparation

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Using PowerPoint for Teaching

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  1. Using PowerPoint for Teaching Stephen BostockStaff DevelopmentKeele University ? ? ©Keele

  2. Summary • Should we teach with presentations? • PowerPoint in/supporting lectures • Supporting student activity • Refining presentations • Some PowerPoint facilities • Tips for preparation • Advantages and disadvantages of presentation slides

  3. What’s the use of lectures?Donald Bligh 1972 … • as effective as other media • not effective • not very effective His review of research into what (traditional) lectures might be good for: • transmitting information ? • promoting thought ? • changing student attitudes ?

  4. better presentations less ‘lecturing’ Lecturing to large groupsAndreson 1990 Faced with bigger classes and/or more classes, two responses are possible for lectures • Refinementas theatre: enhance style, techniques, presentation skills & technology • Augmentation with student activity, feedback, dialogue, using other media

  5. Uses for PowerPoint • In “Refinement” • Effective delivery of information • Structured note-making • Efficient for staff (in long run) • In “Augmentation” • Support student activity in lecture periods with questions, interactive handouts, …

  6. Selecting media Some or all of • Displays using • (35mm slides) • Acetates • (LCD panel with overhead projector) • Digital projector, fixed or portable • Interactive whiteboard • Paper handouts in various forms • Web pages in various forms - accessibility

  7. Presentation slides • Provide clear, readable text • In attractive colours, designs • The consistency helps understanding • Can append during a lecture, make dynamic and responsive • Automatic numbering, footers, administrative information helps filing

  8. Pictures, charts

  9. Video/sound

  10. Handouts Note-taking is passive, boring and inefficient - look at their notes! So, for example ... • Full handouts of slides for accuracy and to save time, especially diagrams • Semi-notes with missing content; unlabelled diagrams, empty tables, bullets - instruct students to complete them • Skeleton notes of structure + keywords - students to add detail during the lecture

  11. Web versions • Make presentation accessible to students before or after lecture(Accessibility required from 2002/3) • With full versions of slides for reference, colour, animation, etc. • You could include lecturer’s notes • As an Acrobat (pdf) file, handouts are ready for printing

  12. Tips for better presentations • Prepare: • Know your audience, the room, lighting control, equipment • Acetates backup (?) • Design easily understood charts, graphs, pictures, diagrams • Rehearse – use the PowerPoint rehearsal feature for timing

  13. Summary: advantages of presentation software • Clear, legible text • Information in well structured chunks • Images, diagrams, charts done easily • Handouts are copies of screens but can have gaps, questions, space for notes • Use the same slides on a digital projector, acetates, web pages, handouts • Use different selections of slides for modifying presentations, reusing slides

  14. Some ready-made designs are too complex and print badly It imposes a modular structure of slides and bullets - can fragment an argument or story Summary: disadvantages of presentation software All content can look the same, boring,death by PowerPoint Learning to use it! Drawings are time-consuming, (but photo images are easy) Keeping versions for handouts and screen, or hiding some slides or objects

  15. The end

  16. References • Lee Andreson, Lecturing to large groups, in C. Rust, Teaching in Higher Education, 1990, SCED Paper 57, ISBN 0946815178 • Donald Bligh, What’s the use of lectures? Exeter: Intellect, 1998, 5th ed. • Phil Race, The Lecturer’s Toolkit, 2001 Kogan Page • Paul Ramsden, Learning to teach in Higher Education, 1992, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-06415-5 • www.umist.ac.uk/apt/ for presentation technology • Designing Slide Presentations for Adultsby Raymond W. Barclay Jr. and Nancy G. Wyatt

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