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Using PowerPoint for Teaching
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Stephen BostockStaff DevelopmentKeele University
©Keele
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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
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as effective as other media
not effective
not very effective
What’s the use of lectures?Donald Bligh 1972 … His review of research into what
(traditional) lectures might be good for:
transmitting information ?
promoting thought ?
changing student attitudes ?
4Lecturing to large groupsAndreson 1990Faced with bigger classes and/or more classes,
two responses are possible for lectures
Refinement as theatre: enhance style, techniques, presentation skills & technology
Augmentation with student activity, feedback, dialogue, using other media
better pre
sentations
less ‘lect
uring’
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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, …
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Selecting mediaSome 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
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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
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Pictures, charts
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Video/sound
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HandoutsNote-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
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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
12Tips 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
13Summary: advantages of presentation software1. Clear, legible text2. Information in well structured chunks3. Images, diagrams, charts done easily4. Handouts are copies of screens but can
have gaps, questions, space for notes5. Use the same slides on a digital
projector, acetates, web pages, handouts6. Use different selections of slides for
modifying presentations, reusing slides
Summary: disadvantages of presentation
software
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
Drawings are time-consuming,
(but photo images are easy)
Keeping versions for handouts and screen, or hiding some slides or
objects
All content can look the
same, boring,death by
PowerPoint
Learning to use it!
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The end
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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 Adults
by Raymond W. Barclay Jr. and Nancy G. Wyatt
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