can be highly boring for your students and should only be used by authorised PowerPoint Teachers

Warning

PowerPoint

It’s my duty to warn you

How to avoid

a Slow Death by PowerPoint

(No students were harmed during the making of this presentation)

The Top Cardinal Sins

Cardinal Sin 1

The Script

The problem is that most people speak at

150 WPM

Yet most people read at

250 WPM

Cardinal Sin 2

Dodging Bullets

Example

Not exactly exciting is it?

To a student this is a signal to

Followed with a sprinkling of these

And time to catch up on

Ditch the bullet points!

Cardinal Sin 3

Spell Checks

Cardinal Sin 4

People who love data

Think that more is better ?

More Data

Effectiveness

Lets demonstrate this

By adding more!

In some desperate attempt

To convince you of their point

Cardinal Sin 5

Cardinal Sin 6

Animation

Can be good

For visual learners

Animation Can be effective But use too much And you end up with your students Going WOW! This is just so cool And not actually Taking Any notice Of what You are trying to say

And your PowerPoint becomes this

Animation Blah Boring Like this one? WOW! Look at me Woo hoo Wheee Yawn Fidget Blah Blah Blah

More Animation

Less Effect

So how do you get away from mindless text and bullets?

Example

We’ve all heard the proverb

A picture is

words

Taken from an example of a real GCSE Business lesson

Doesn’t it make you feel like this?

Let’s break it down

Technological Forces

Manufacturing products only when ordered (JIT)

I n c r e a s e s

Output & production

Productivity

Demand for skilled workers

Skills education for workforce

Technology costs

Quality

D e c r e a ses

Costs and storage space

Production downtime storage space

Jobs (redundancies) storage space

Its all there except

You nor the students read it!

computer Sometimes the best slides have no text at all

Have you got it yet?

Less is more

Communication involves emotions

If you can’t explain it short and simple

Then you don’t understand it

This is bad communication

This is good communication

Only use images that match your message

… and evoke emotion

Too much text & data is

Try to avoid clipart!

L i m i t

Less text and data is

G d

Make only ONE point per slide

Dodge the bullets

Don’t use bad colour schemes

Check your spelling

Use pictures

Try

Try

Jacqueline Hicks © 2010 Lead Teacher of ICT [email_address]