1. What are the goals for a workshop that introduces fellow teachers to how to use digital imaging and imagery in the classroom?
¤ For teachers to come away from the workshop with enough knowledge and resources to feel confident using digital imagery and PowerPoint
¤ Linking PowerPoint lesson to HW or class work assignment (content specific)
¤ MODEL engaging PowerPoint during the workshop presentation.
o maybe demonstrate bad / good slides – to clearly see the difference of layouts
¤ Convince teacher audience of the value of PowerPoint (using digital imagery).
2. What knowledge do the workshop participants need to have to meet your goals?
¤ Guidelines for presenting an effective and engaging PowerPoint presentation
¤ Picture resizing to limit document file size
o Grouping to resize
o Opening with Microsoft Office (Pro?)
¤ Rubric for grading PowerPoint documents and oral presentations
¤ Highlighting techniques (for content emphasis and engagement)
o Stretch
o Develop others (?)
Our Brainstorming About PowerPoint:
Goal of a presentation: To present your point of view – convince people of that message.
Tools: Digital camera, PowerPoint to make a visual and oral presentation to present your point of view.
Challenges / weakness in developing effective PowerPoints. Specific point to creating effective PowerPoint slides.
How to engage students to be active learners?
¤ Index cards – question / content specific linked to PowerPoint lesson
o focus questions
How do I prepare a PowerPoint that engages an audience?
¤ Clear, definite structure
¤ 5 paragraph essay structure (intro, body, conclusion)
¤ large images 1 per slide
¤ limit to 10 words per slide
¤ font size 32 (28?) or larger
¤ text color - contrasting
¤ timing of pictures and text
¤ auto effects
Things that distract an audience.
¤ Busy background
¤ Too much motion – marching, bouncing,
¤ Poor color scheme (ex. Light blue text on dark blue background)
¤ Too much text (sentences)
¤ Too many pictures
¤ Inappropriate sound
¤ Any animation that makes you wait
¤ Poor grouping or order of animation
Student survey – get students to realize effective slide layout and presentation on their own.
What makes an interesting ppt?
What makes a boring ppt?
What makes it engaging in a way that it is fun and you are learning from it too?
Suggestion: Make sure presentation uses digital imagery in workshop presentation. MODEL it.
Question: Is the goal to have students create a good PowerPoint visual, OR that we can tell the student knows the content.
Suggestion: Require students do the essay first, then create the PowerPoint from it.
When teaching the workshop, distinguish teaching tool as 1 of 2 goals: Good slides OR stand alone presentation.
Comment: Different reasons to use PowerPoint to get at learning goals – make this clear. Is it to teach something new, to present an experiment that was done, to be used as a learning tool, etc.
Sit back and watch, to learn. Steps to show, and then practiceÉ.
Comment: Professor-presented PPT lecture – shut off student. PPT ÒrunsÓ like video, and is boring. Students sit back and watch. Media in front of students, sometimes shuts students down. Make sure PPT slides are interactive.
Suggested Resource: Doug – for content emphasis ideas
Proposal Feedback:
ShouldnÕt focus too much on one particular software, such as PowerPoint.
Presentation – student and teacher with use of PowerPoint (alternatives exist – kidpicks, mac versionÉ my space. Web pages, publisher).
Presentations – 5 minute limit (emphasize being concise, and effective with every image)
Òelevator pitchÓ – get your idea across in x minutes.