The document discusses the potential for improving PowerPoint presentations through more interactive and engaging techniques. It provides examples of faculty who have successfully enhanced their PowerPoint lectures with techniques like visual narratives, images, and activities that focus on the learner. However, it notes that some images in the presentation were purchased from third parties and cannot be reused without permission due to copyright law.

1. Can PowerPoint be Saved? We think so! Some of the images included in this presentation were purchased through a third party vendor. Extraction and reuse of them outside of this work may constitute a violation of copyright law. Jean Lorelle Wilson, University of Hartford Ella Holst, Yale New Haven Health Office of Emergency Preparedness 3 strategies to get your faculty hooked on really good PowerPoint

3. Genevieve Liang

4. PowerPoint Makes You Dumb Cyberspace Yes, PowerPoint No! PowerPoint Poisoning Death By PowerPoint PowerPoint: Shot With Its Own Bullets PowerPointless

5. Student Newspapers “ PowerPoint has not improved medical pedagogy: it has instead made the large lecture experience a mind numbing waste of time .”

6. RateMyProfessor.com Mr Powerpoint. This guy gives BORING PowerPoint lectures , but he is VERY knowledgeable and is worth listening to and is excellent in the lab. If his lectures were not so boring he could be one of the best! “ “

7. Why I hate most PowerPoint Lectures And believe it or not, he had a third bullet point on that slide

9. Stop Using PowerPoint

10. Why?

11. Can PowerPoint be Saved! 3 strategies to get your faculty hooked on really good PowerPoint

12. Collaborate ReCreate Captivate with others the concept the learner

13. Collaborate

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15. Provide 1:1 Consulting Who’s using PowerPoint How is it being used Identify unique needs Identify Innovators

16. Invite Faculty to Present Ray McGivney

17. Sourceh: Carl Berger, The Next Killer App: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/carat.copy/presentations__listed_by_date_ Invite Faculty to Present

19. Some thoughts on how to avoid making really awful PowerPoint lectures by Chris Anderson Politics and Government Department University of Hartford

20. The Autocontent Wizard A lecture lasts a lot longer than most business presentations The Wizard is would like you to make bullet point after bullet point This can become tiresome Very quickly Tired yet? is not your friend

21. 2. Design templates are not cool It might be a pretty mountain scene, but it really doesn’t help unless you are talking about mountains. Ask yourself: Will this background will make my presentation more interesting? Answer yourself: No, not at all. But it might make you think you have made your presentation more interesting. It will also make the room darker.

22. Don’t just make lecture outlines For those who prefer equations: L=X+Y-Z L’=I(E+D+P+N+Q) L= PowerPoint Lecture X= Chalkboard lecture Y= Better handwriting Z= Spontaneity L’= Not so awful PowerPoint Lecture I= Imaginative use of images and animation E= Emphasis D= Data P= Processes N= Narratives Q= Discussion prompts

23. Anderson’s thinking Nothing says “this is not a powerpoint template” like a plain white background.

24. Anderson’s thinking Nothing says “this is not a powerpoint template” like a plain white background. Introduce anarchy

25. Don’t just make lecture outlines Try to use images and custom animation creatively. Surprise is good.

26. To the extent my PowerPoint presentations have been successful, it is because I do not always use them to put up lecture outlines. “ “

27. I use them to emphasize important points, to provide visual representation of data, and to add illustrations to narratives. “ “

28. Listening to a lecture is a difficult experience; human beings are not designed to receive information this way. PowerPoint should be used to make the class less predictable, rather than more predictable. “ “

30. Adventures of a PowerPoint neophyte Ray McGivney In conjunction with FCLD October 6, 2006 Mis Mis

31. My History 1965-1980 Chalk 1980-1995 Whiteboard 1995-2005 Transparencies 2005-Present THIS!

32. Outline Background Two Early Mistakes Formatting Mistakes Mistakes with Content Some Positives Designing a Lesson T -15 Showtime Student Remarks What I like about PowerPoint Next?

35. World’s worst animation

37. Improved Version

39. What I like about PowerPoint I can be more spontaneous – Worry less about “What comes next?” I can be more creative and interact better with the class I am challenged more What IS important? What key words, in what sequence, with what pictures best captures “it”? Bottom line. Best medium for topical/dynamic/creative environment for M116

41. Start a PowerPoint Circle

42. Tap Student Perspectives

44. ReCreate

45. Ask the big question: Is PowerPoint Evil?

46. Beyond Bullets: PowerPoint as a lecture aid Beyond Bullets: From overheads to PowerPoint Beyond Bullets: How to create a dynamic menu slide Beyond Bullets : Is it PowerPoint or is it a website? Beyond Bullets: Creating student portfolios Beyond Bullets: Creating interactive quizzes for self-review Beyond Bullets : Narrative techniques and digital storytelling Redesign your workshops

47. Change the context Storytelling Movies Narratives frames Picture Shows

48. Change the context

49. Demonstrate innovation Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture Dick Hardt – OSCON

50. Disseminate ideas

51. Disseminate ideas Parade of Games Website: http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/

53. Captivate

54. Focus on the Learner Boomer Faculty Tech-speak 60’s images, etc. (a little) learning theory Faculty presenters Handouts Immersion learning

55. Focus on the Learner Millennial Students Hypertext minds Multi-taskers Easily bored Technology savvy Visual Learners

57. Collaborate ReCreate Captivate with others the concept the learner

59. What does it look like on campus?

60. Elizabeth Burt: Learning to Love PowerPoint

62. A “Popular” Text: Latin translation of Aristotle’s Physica

63. Two Medieval Manuscripts

64. 12 th -Century Monk Inscribing a Manuscript

65. “ They’re taking notes again”

67. Chris Anderson: Visual Narratives

68. Republic Res + Publica Thing + Public The Public Thing Common Good Small territories Civic Virtue

69. Massachusetts

70. Massachusetts No Taxes Generous Loan Repayment Terms BUDGET CRISIS

71. Massachusetts No Taxes Generous Loan Repayment Terms BUDGET CRISIS The Governor Taxes!

72. Massachusetts The Governor Republic?

74. Glen Adsit: Music for the eyes

78. Ray McGivney: A contemporary approach to contemporary mathematics + =

79. I crossed all the edges once and only once and I came home. Easy stuff for us college presidents Walt starts Walt ends at same place

80. Any trip like Walt’s where all the edges are crossed once and only once and you return to the starting place is called a ?

81. I crossed all the bridges once an only once, but I didn’t go home – as any “idiot” knows End start

82. Any trip like Johnny’s where all the bridges are crossed once and only once but you don’t return home is called a ?

83. I am so confused. Can’t seem to cross all bridges once and only once

84. Any trip like Alex’s where you can’t cross all the bridges once and only once is called ?

86. What does it look like on campus? Seminar attendance doubled in a year. Waiting Lists

87. Pairing my lectures with PowerPoint slides inevitably brought a wholesale revision of the lectures for the entire course. Chris Anderson I am challenged more: What IS important? What key words, in what sequence, with what pictures best captures “it”? Ray McGivney They’re taking notes! Elizabeth Burt

88. Most of the teachers use PowerPoint. Students download the file before class and watch it on their laptops in their rooms. Instructors who do nothing but read off the slides find their attendance drops dramatically, they get poor student reviews and fussed at by the higher-ups in administration. Some of them try to counter by giving pop quizzes but that just means that students come to class, ignore the teacher, read a book for a more challenging course, take the quiz at the end of class, and leave. It’s rather sad that that’s what all that expensive tuition is paying for.

90. What do we call it ?

91. Web 2.0 “is less a planned upgrade than a recognition of the way small technical developments, along with quite significant changes in practice, are altering how we interact with information and with each other in the electronic medium” (Edward J. Maloney, ‘what web2.0 can teach us about Learning’ The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/5/07 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i18/18b02601.htm )

92. PowerPoint 2.0

93. Lorelle Wilson, Director Faculty Center for Learning Development University of Hartford [email_address] Ella Holst, Regional Education Specialist Yale New Haven Health Office of Emergency Preparedness [email_address]

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