10 tips for better classroom presentations

1. 9 TipsforBetterClassroom Presentations 20 Minute WorkshopAnimo Inglewood Charter High School Narciso C. Aguda, Jr. M.EdInstructional Technology Coordinator

2. Instructional Technology Coordinator teachers.mraguda.com @mraguda naguda@greendot.org (818) 350-2449

3. There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world* They do 30 million PowerPointseach day* About a million presentations are going on right now* About 50% are unbearable*

4. It’s killing our students….

5. active USE _________ note-taking strategies. 1 Print _________ out your lecture as ____________ or slides. handouts Fill out Have students ____ - ____ the missing words or phrases as you speak.

6. Clipart DITCH most ___________ and _____________. 2 templates Fortunately and unfortunately, PowerPoint has become a presentation __________. Most of your __________ have seen the gamut of the ____________ graphics and templates. It’s time to get ____________! staple students embedded creative

9. Some great free clipart sites. 2 _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ http://sxc.hu http://www.iconarchive.com/ http://images.google.com http://www.bing.com/

10. font size VARY your ______-______, not your ______-____ 3 font face Toomanyfont-faces makereadingyourslide very _____________. difficult Try varying your Font-Size to highlight important points. It’s easier for the eye and brain to evaluate one or two fonts-faces at different sizes. Of course, keep your font size large enough so that your class can read the text.

12. Large fonts ________ _____ are a MUST! 3a Try varying your Font-Size to highlight important points. It’s easier for the eye and brain to evaluate one or two fonts-faces at different sizes. Of course, keep your font size large enough so that your class can read the text. Try varying your Font-Size to highlight important points. It’s easier for the eye and brain to evaluate one or two fonts-faces at different sizes. Of course, keep your font size large enough so that your class can read the text.

13. pack Don’t _______ a slide with all your information. 4 People tend to put every word they are going to say on their PowerPoint slides. Although this eliminates the need to memorize your lecture, ultimately this makes your slides crowded, wordy, and boring. You will lose your audience’s attention before you even reach the bottom of your…

14. pack Don’t _______ a slide with all your information. 4 (continued)…first slide.

17. Don’t’ be afraid to give _____________ points their own slide. 5 important And make slides visual by incorporating large pictures as backgrounds. Use semi-transparent placeholders to keep the integrity of your visual.

18. Don’t reveal until you are ________________________ 5 ready to talk about it shapes Use ____________ and/or _________________ to hide and uncover points that you will be presenting later. animations What nucleotide is found in RNA and NOT DNA? (U)racil

20. Excessive

21. Bullet

22. Pointing

23. Only

24. Bullet

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27. Too

28. Many

29. Bullet-Points

30. And

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38. In Fact,

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40. Term

41. “Bullet-Point”

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43. From

44. People

45. Firing

46. Guns At

47. Annoying

49. Mark up _______-____ your slides as you present them. 7

50. out Take animations _______ of the box. 8

51. Nucleotides P Sugar The sugar and phosphate make up the _________ P Sugar P Sugar backbone DNA The Molecule of Life

52. Transcription: making a copy A A C G G G C A T C G A U C C G U U C G A G C T T C C C G G T T C G A Exception to base-pair rule: ___ instead of ___ U T Step 2: adds RNA Polymerase ______nucleotides to mRNA in the 5’3’ direction 3’ 5’ RNA polymerase T A T A T A T A mRNA 5’ 3’

53. powerpoint Get out of ____________. 9

54. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse! ____________. 10

55. 9 TipsforBetterClassroom Presentations 20 Minute WorkshopAnimo Inglewood Charter High School Narciso C. Aguda, Jr. M.EdInstructional Technology Coordinator