As I was saying yesterday, I didn't get much farther than the blogs at the FETC Virtual Conference last week. I will need to catch up in the archives.
Someone mentioned a webinar on Innovation in Education: Aligning Teacher Effectiveness to Greater Student Achievement by Kathleen Fulton. I couldn't find this on the schedule, so I'm not sure it was during the FETC conference, however, I mention it because the post had some good thoughts on students and PowerPoint usage. We all know PowerPoint can have a bad rap because people read straight from them, but that's a presentation problem, not a PowerPoint problem. What some mentioned is that they are using Presentation Zen, Slideology, and Sliderocket as ways to get their students to stop reading their slides and be more interactive with their audience.
In one class, a teacher has given his students time to write a short reflection paper about what they have learned during the unit and then they create a PowerPoint with 10 slides and under 10 minutes to tell the class what they have learned. Someone else stated this is similar to PechaKucha, which I had to look up. It's an event held in Japan for designers, which draws from the Japanese term for "chit chat", with the idea of 20 images in 20 seconds. The idea is to make presentations concise and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Another poster said they have found telling their students to think of each slide like a road map as a way to get slides with not so much information.
Some interesting thoughts!
There's a history teacher I work with where we've done a lot of PowerPoint presentations in her classes and we like to give her students a little bit more of a template to work from, creating slides with key points for them to remember to talk about on their slides. For example, we just finished a 1920's digital scrapbook. One slide was about the Harlem Renaissance and on the slide were clues to help the students such as, who was a famous musician during this time period? Why were they famous? or we included a text box saying insert a picture or movie here. Then the students can design it how they want, moving text boxes and changing fonts, etc.
What kinds of projects have others done with PowerPoint? How do you keep students from putting too much on it or from reading it word for word?
Someone mentioned a webinar on Innovation in Education: Aligning Teacher Effectiveness to Greater Student Achievement by Kathleen Fulton. I couldn't find this on the schedule, so I'm not sure it was during the FETC conference, however, I mention it because the post had some good thoughts on students and PowerPoint usage. We all know PowerPoint can have a bad rap because people read straight from them, but that's a presentation problem, not a PowerPoint problem. What some mentioned is that they are using Presentation Zen, Slideology, and Sliderocket as ways to get their students to stop reading their slides and be more interactive with their audience.
In one class, a teacher has given his students time to write a short reflection paper about what they have learned during the unit and then they create a PowerPoint with 10 slides and under 10 minutes to tell the class what they have learned. Someone else stated this is similar to PechaKucha, which I had to look up. It's an event held in Japan for designers, which draws from the Japanese term for "chit chat", with the idea of 20 images in 20 seconds. The idea is to make presentations concise and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Another poster said they have found telling their students to think of each slide like a road map as a way to get slides with not so much information.
Some interesting thoughts!
There's a history teacher I work with where we've done a lot of PowerPoint presentations in her classes and we like to give her students a little bit more of a template to work from, creating slides with key points for them to remember to talk about on their slides. For example, we just finished a 1920's digital scrapbook. One slide was about the Harlem Renaissance and on the slide were clues to help the students such as, who was a famous musician during this time period? Why were they famous? or we included a text box saying insert a picture or movie here. Then the students can design it how they want, moving text boxes and changing fonts, etc.
What kinds of projects have others done with PowerPoint? How do you keep students from putting too much on it or from reading it word for word?
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