PowerPoint Makes You Dumb
Cyberspace Yes, PowerPoint No!
PowerPoint Poisoning
Death By PowerPoint
PowerPoint: Shot With Its Own Bullets
PowerPointless
Student Newspapers
“PowerPoint has not improved medical pedagogy: it
has instead made the large lecture experience a
mind numbing waste of time.”
“ Mr Powerpoint. This guy gives
BORING PowerPoint lectures, but he
is VERY knowledgeable and is worth
listening to and is excellent in the lab.
If his lectures were not so boring he
could be one of the best!
“
RateMyProfessor.com
Why I hate most PowerPoint Lectures
And believe it or not, he had a third bullet point on that slide
Stop
Using
PowerPoin
t
Why?
PowerPoint can be Saved!
3 strategies to
get your faculty
hooked on
really good
PowerPoint
with others
Collaborate
the concept
ReCreate
the learner
Captivate
Collaborate
Provide 1:1 Consulting
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Ella
Provide 1:1 Consulting
Who’s using PowerPoint
How is it being used
Identify unique needs
Identify Innovators
Invite Faculty to Present
Ray McGivney
Invite Faculty to Present
Sourceh: Carl Berger, The Next Killer App: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/carat.copy/presentations__listed_by_date_
Some thoughts on how to avoid making really awful
PowerPoint lectures
by Chris Anderson
Politics and Government
Department
University of Hartford
1. The Autocontent Wizard
is not your friend
• A lecture lasts a lot
longer than most
business presentations
• The Wizard is would
like you to make bullet
point after bullet point
• This can become
tiresome
• Very quickly
• Tired yet?
2. Design templates are not cool
• It might be a pretty mountain scene, but it
really doesn’t help unless you are talking
about mountains.
Ask yourself: Will this background will make
my presentation more interesting?
Answer yourself: No, not at all.
– But it might make you think you have made
your presentation more interesting.
– It will also make the room darker.
Don’t just make lecture
outlines
For those who prefer equations:
L=X+Y-Z
L’=I(E+D+P+N+Q)
L= PowerPoint Lecture
X= Chalkboard lecture
Y= Better handwriting
Z= Spontaneity
L’= Not so awful
PowerPoint Lecture
I= Imaginative use of
images and animation
E= Emphasis
D= Data
P= Processes
N= Narratives
Q= Discussion prompts
Anderson’s thinking
Nothing says
“this is not a
powerpoint
template” like a
plain white
background.
Anderson’s thinking
Nothing says
“this is not a
powerpoint
template” like a
plain white
background.
Don’t just make lecture
outlines
Try to use images and custom animation creatively.
Surprise is good.
To the extent my PowerPoint
presentations have been successful, it
is because I do not always use them
to put up lecture outlines.
“
“
I use them to emphasize important
points, to provide visual
representation of data, and to add
illustrations to narratives.
“
“
“
“
Listening to a lecture is a difficult
experience; human beings are not
designed to receive information this
way. PowerPoint should be used to
make the class less predictable,
rather than more predictable.
Mis Adventures of a
PowerPoint neophyte
Mis
Ray McGivney
In conjunction with FCLD
October 6, 2006
My History
• 1965-1980
Chalk
• 1980-1995
Whiteboard
• 1995-2005
Transparencies
• 2005-Present
THIS!
Outline
• Background
• T -15
• Two Early Mistakes
• Showtime
• Formatting Mistakes
• Student Remarks
• Mistakes with Content
• What I like about PowerPoint
• Some Positives
• Next?
• Designing a Lesson
World’s worst animation
Improved Version
What I like about PowerPoint
1.
I can be more spontaneous – Worry less about “What
comes next?”
2.
I can be more creative and interact better with the
class
3.
I am challenged more
What IS important?
What key words, in what sequence, with what pictures best captures
“it”?
7.
Bottom line. Best medium for topical/dynamic/creative
environment for M116
Start a PowerPoint Circle
Tap Student Perspectives
ReCreate
Ask the big question:
Is PowerPoint Evil?
Redesign your workshops
Beyond Bullets: PowerPoint as a lecture aid
Beyond Bullets: From overheads to PowerPoint
Beyond Bullets: How to create a dynamic menu slide
Beyond Bullets: Is it PowerPoint or is it a website?
Beyond Bullets: Creating student portfolios
Beyond Bullets: Creating interactive quizzes for self-review
Beyond Bullets: Narrative techniques and digital storytelling
Change the context
Storytelling
Movies
Narratives
frames
Picture Shows
Change the context
Demonstrate innovation
Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture
Dick Hardt – OSCON
Disseminate ideas
Disseminate ideas
Parade of Games Website:
http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/
Captivate
Focus on the Learner
Boomer Faculty
Tech-speak
60’s images, etc.
(a little) learning theory
Faculty presenters
Handouts
Immersion learning
Focus on the Learner
Millennial Students
Hypertext minds
Multi-taskers
Easily bored
Technology savvy
Visual Learners
with others
Collaborate
the concept
ReCreate
the learner
Captivate
What does it look like on
campus?
Elizabeth Burt:
Learning to Love
PowerPoint
A “Popular” Text:
Latin translation of Aristotle’s Physica
Two Medieval Manuscripts
12th-Century Monk Inscribing a Manuscript
“They’re taking notes again”
Chris Anderson:
Visual Narratives
ResRepublic
+ Publica
TheThing
Public+ Thing
Public
Common Good
• Small territories
• Civic Virtue
Massachusetts
No Taxes
BUDGET
Generous Loan
Repayment Terms
CRISIS
Massachusetts
Taxes!
No Taxes
BUDGET
Generous Loan
Repayment Terms
CRISIS
Massachusetts
Republic?
Massachusetts
Glen Adsit:
Music for the eyes
Ray McGivney: A contemporary
approach to contemporary
mathematics
+
=
Walt
starts
Walt
ends at
same
place
I crossed all the
edges once and
only once and I
came home. Easy
stuff for us college
presidents
Any trip like Walt’s
where all the edges are
crossed once and only
once and you return to
the starting place is
called a ?
I crossed all the bridges
once an only once, but
I didn’t go home – as
any “idiot” knows
start
End
Any trip like Johnny’s
where all the bridges are
crossed once and only
once but you don’t
return home is called a ?
I am so
confused.
Can’t seem
to cross all
bridges
once and
only once
Any trip like Alex’s
where you can’t cross all
the bridges once and
only once is called ?
What does it look like on campus?
• Seminar
attendance
doubled in a
year.
• Waiting Lists
Pairing my lectures with PowerPoint slides
inevitably brought a wholesale revision of
the lectures for the entire course.
Chris Anderson
I am challenged more: What IS important?
What key words, in what sequence, with
what pictures best captures “it”?
Ray McGivney
They’re taking notes!
Elizabeth Burt
Most of the teachers use PowerPoint. Students download the file
before class and watch it on their laptops in their rooms.
Instructors who do nothing but read off the slides find their
attendance drops dramatically, they get poor student reviews and
fussed at by the higher-ups in administration. Some of them try to
counter by giving pop quizzes but that just means that students
come to class, ignore the teacher, read a book for a more
challenging course, take the quiz at the end of class, and leave.
It’s rather sad that that’s what all that expensive tuition is paying
for.
What do we call it?
Web 2.0
“is less a planned upgrade than a
recognition of the way small technical
developments, along with quite significant
changes in practice, are altering how we
interact with information and with each
other in the electronic medium”
(Edward J. Maloney, ‘what web2.0 can teach us about Learning’ The Chronicle of
Higher Education, 1/5/07 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i18/18b02601.htm )
PowerPoint
2.0
Lorelle Wilson, Director
Faculty Center for Learning Development
University of Hartford
lpwilson@hartford.edu
Ella Holst, Regional Education Specialist
Yale New Haven Health
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Ella.Holst@ynhh.org
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