thankk you regarding PP
power point is only a way to highlight specific points ones who read off power point limit themselves to being successful beyond themselves
Hi Carl:
I have one lesson on professionalism that has six bullet points. Each point is revealed one at a time. I spend 1.5 hours with this one slide. It has a simple graded blue background and black lettering in 20 pitch Arial. I supplement each point whith stories, examples, involve students in discussion, and their interest is piqued the whole time.
Part of it is that I'm also using the whiteboard, and posters sheets for student comments. The other part is I present and deliver in a way that interests them - taliking about their career aspirations, desires, and futures. They pay attention, and are surprised when the time is up. But with only one PPT slide.
And students will want to continue discussing afterwards. I use that as a guage I was successful at presenting my points!
Regards, Barry
Nothing loses an audience faster than a continuous dose of busy power point slides. "Death by power point" is very much a reality when an instructor uses too many slides with too much information in too short a time period. I believe little to no learning is accomplished until the medium is varied.
Hi Ed:
Yeah, and as I've said a lot before, PPT is best when used along with other media (whiteboad, flip chart, posters, group or focused discussions, Q&A, demonstration, Video/DVD's, textbpook, class exercises, etc).
PPT can be quite dramatic but also overused. To me it's just a tool and what the tool can perform is the important thing, not the tool itself. I also think too much PPT can actually distract students if too much time is spent using it in a single setting.
Regards, Barry
PPD is an excellent way to bullet points that are important. I often spend 15 to 20 minutes on a slide. Generally to talk to the students about the contents of the slide, why it is important, why do you the student needs to learn what is on the slide, and how you will use the information
Hi KIm:
Can't argue with using two media choices to teach a class. Blending the two would also work. For example, show a few slides, then demonstrate something, then return to your slides, then demonstrate something. Thuis activity can also work with PPT and discussion, PPT and reading or text exercises, etc. At the least, PPT and whiteboard make for more meaningful presentations.
Regards, Barry
I think ppt is an incredible tool to work with, especially if you pair it with demonstration classes. In our classroom, we start out the day with a ppt lecture and follow it up immediately with hands-on demonstration as to what we just lectured on. This way, we are providing 2 different methods of presenting the same material.
Hi Stephen:
PPT can be powerful learning tool, or a big waste of time and useless to the learning process. What determines it's effectiveness is how the teacher decides to use it.
Augmenting lectures, demonstrations or discussion, PPT can introduce key facts or data. It's also great for photo's, illustrations, graphs and charts, tables, or similar images that help simplify concepts.
Where PPT is less useful is slide after slide, poorly formatted, with little discussion apart from what the slide illustrates. This is just plain boring and I would guess some students would be totally disinterested.
Overall, I think PPT is a good thing as long as it doesn't dominate the lesson, and is used alongside other media (whiteboard, discussion, supplementaries, etc.).
Regards, Barry
