PowerPoint
Enhancing Classroom Education
Lynn ZottnickInstructional Technology
Lakeview Academy
July 2008
Certain materials are included under the fair use exemption of the U. S. Copyright Law and have been prepared according to the fair use multimedia guidelinesand are restricted from further use.
Outline
•Presentations: A Brief History
•Why Use PowerPoint?
•PowerPoint Tips
•PowerPoint in the Classroom
•Resources
Presentations
•Cave Paintings
In the beginning…
•Hieroglyphics
Presentations
•Tapestries
In the beginning…
•Chalk Board
History
•PowerPoint 1 – 1987 Presenter
Typewriter pages were enlarged, and copied on to transparencies
Tedious, slow, expensive, poor qualityOnly one font - Courier 10
•Overhead Presentations – prior to 1987
Black and white only
Macintosh
Generated pages for transparencies
History
•PowerPoint 3 – 1992
First presentation product for Windows
Font trouble
Bullets
Graphing
•PowerPoint 2 - 1990
For Mac and Windows
TrueType Fonts
Transition Effects
Sound and Video
History
PowerPoint 7.0 May 1994
PowerPoint 4.0 February 1994
PowerPoint97 May 1997
History
PowerPoint 2003
PowerPoint 2000 PowerPoint 2007
History
Presentation 2008
Why Use PowerPoint?
•Present information or instruction
•Organize material
•Reinforces Learning
•Create tutorials, reviews, or quizzes.
•Display student work
•Active Learning
•Classroom Management
PowerPoint Tips
•Choose a font that is easy to read
Creating a Good Presentation: Fonts
Script
Fun All CAPS
•Stick with one or two types of fonts.
•Use a font size of at least 22 points
High Contrast
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40 points 22 points 12 points
PowerPoint Tips
•Use the same background
Creating a Good Presentation: Backgrounds
Design Templates
Create your own look
•Choose colors carefully
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PowerPoint TipsBackgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully
Use high-contrast colors
This is hard to read!
Red and black are generally poor color combinations
Red text is especially hard to read
PowerPoint TipsBackgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully
Use high-contrast colors
White/light text looks sharp!
Especially good for “low light” presentations
PowerPoint TipsBackgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully
Use high-contrast colors
This is hard to read!
Be careful with textures and special effects
This is hard to read!
PowerPoint Tips
“Be careful not to put too much text on one slide. It’s so annoying to see a presentation with tons and tons and tons of text. It’s like, you know, you are supposed to focus on the presenter, you know, and if there’s so much text I just get bored and my mind wanders. You know what I mean? Do you really want to read all this stuff? I would just skip over it and move on to the next slide.” This quote is by Martha Lipold, the 7th Grade Science Teacher at Lakeview Academy.
Creating a Good Presentation: Text
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PowerPoint Tips
•Use an phrases rather than paragraphs
Creating a Presentation: Bullets
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•Use the 6x6 rule
No more than 6 bulletsNo more than 6 words per bullet
Good
PowerPoint Tips
•Choose graphics and sound carefully
Creating a Good Presentation: Media
…not BE the presentation
•Media should contribute to the presentation
PowerPoint TipsCreating a Great Presentation
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Think outside the box!
PowerPoint Tips
No bullets
Creating a Great Presentation
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One word or phrase per slide
Slides are cheap
PowerPoint TipsCreating a Great Presentation
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Create images
Limit clipart
Incorporate Media
PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Teachers
•Informational
•How-to/Step-by-Step
•Electronic Portfolio - Collections
•Interactive – Action Buttons/Hyperlinks
PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Teachers
•Thought of the Day
•Periodic Table
•Spelling Practice
•Virtual Field Trip
•Addition
•All About Animals
PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Students
•Social Studies The Oregon Trail The Decades Project State Trivia Native Americans
•Science World Biomes Weather Kingdoms and Phylums
PowerPoint In the ClassroomIntegration Ideas for Students
•Language Arts Genre Digital Book
Advertisement News Story
•Art History Display student work
PowerPoint In the ClassroomEducational Games
•The Big Wheel
•Willington Stakes
•Hidden Picture
•Hollywood Squares
•Jeopardy!
•Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
PowerPoint In the ClassroomTimers
•Seasonal Timer
•Digital Clock
•Hour Glass
PowerPoint In the ClassroomCopyright Law: Educational Fair Use
A single copy can be made of any of the following….
•A chapter from a book
•An article from a periodical or newspaper
•A short story, short essay, or short poem whether or not it is from a collective work
•A picture, graph, chart, diagram, or cartoon from a book, periodical or newspaper
PowerPoint In the ClassroomOnline Citation Generators
ResourcesIntegration Ideas
•Internet4Classrooms – chock full of goodies
•PowerPoint Resources
•Curriculum Collection
•PowerPoint in the Classroom
•The PowerPoint Collection – Wow!
ResourcesRubrics
•A+ PowerPoint Rubric
•Rubric for Basic PowerPoint
•TechTrekers Rubric Builder
•Georgia Technology Fair Rubric
ResourcesGames
•Parade of Games in PowerPoint
•PowerPoint Games
•Emerging Tech Games
•Timers
•PointMan Games
ResourcesTutorials
Technology for Teachers: PowerPoint Tutorial
ResourcesTemplates
Crystal Graphics
ResourcesMultimedia
Video, graphics, music & sound
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