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History and PowerPoint: Content and Etiquette

History and PowerPoint: Content and Etiquette. Seth Beatty seth_beatty@georgeschool.org http://www.angelfire.com/funky/sethbeatty/educ504.html. From the Introduction:.

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History and PowerPoint: Content and Etiquette

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  1. History and PowerPoint:Content and Etiquette Seth Beatty seth_beatty@georgeschool.org http://www.angelfire.com/funky/sethbeatty/educ504.html

  2. From the Introduction: • This paper will examine some problems of technology, offer some suggestions on how to properly use PowerPoint in the history classroom, and present some resources and assignments that can help enhance teaching with the PowerPoint program.

  3. Teaching History and Technology • Uses and misuses • Text heavy slides • Visual heavy slides • Content Resources • Technical Resources • PowerPoint Etiquette

  4. Has this ever happened to you?

  5. One reason students DON’T learn with technology . . . Too much stuff being used improperly!! Too many decisions to make!!! Too many questions to ask!! Towers or Laptops? What’s wrong with Xerox? Mac or PC? Remember how to make transparencies? VCR or DVD? Which Projector works best? Do you have the white board? And don’t forget wires, hookups, speakers, cases, etc

  6. PowerPoint Etiquette: In an online survey of those who regularly see PowerPoint presentations: Annoying PowerPoint Slides 24.8% were highly annoyed by Moving or Flying Text

  7. PowerPoint Etiquette: In an online survey of those who regularly see PowerPoint presentations: Annoying PowerPoint Slides 39.1% were highly annoyed by *Presenters using full sentences instead of more easily read bullet points

  8. PowerPoint Etiquette: In an online survey of those who regularly see PowerPoint presentations: Annoying PowerPoint Slides 49.1% were highly annoyed by Poor color schemes

  9. PowerPoint Etiquette: In an online survey of those who regularly see PowerPoint presentations: Annoying PowerPoint Slides 32.1% were highly annoyed by Text too small to read

  10. PowerPoint Etiquette: In an online survey of those who regularly see PowerPoint presentations: Annoying PowerPoint Slides  62.0% were highly annoyed by The speaker reading the slides

  11. History PowerPoint presentations lend themselves to such abuses • Text-heavy slides • Visual-heavy slides • Use-every-PowerPoint-trick-or-die slides

  12. Poor Slide

  13. Poor Slide

  14. Better Slide

  15. Moral of the Story • Don’t overwhelm audience with PowerPoint • Balance text and visuals • Use as much technology as you feel comfortable with In closing…

  16. History Visual and PowerPoint Resources • Images from History • http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/index.html • World History PowerPoints • http://www.shastalink.k12.ca.us/ableeducator/PowerPoints/world_history_powerpoints.htm • Virtual Library • http://vlib.org/ • Teacher PowerPoints • http://www.teacherpowerpoints.com • PowerPoint in the Classroom • http://www.actden.com/pp/ • PowerPoint Resources • http://www.bitbetter.com/powerlinks.htm • Youngstown State University EDTC 3771 • http://cc.ysu.edu/~rmeggers/edtc3771/pptlesnagn.htm

  17. Additional Resource for Spicing up Presentations From Social Education Vol 68 No 4 May/June 2004

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