PowerPoint
Enhancing Classroom Education
Lynn Zottnick
Instructional 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
In the beginning…
•Cave Paintings
•Hieroglyphics
Presentations
In the beginning…
•Tapestries
•Chalk Board
History
•Overhead Presentations – prior to 1987
Typewriter pages were enlarged, and copied on to transparencies
Tedious, slow, expensive, poor quality
Only one font - Courier 10
•PowerPoint 1 – 1987 Presenter
Black and white only
Macintosh
Generated pages for
transparencies
History
•PowerPoint 2 - 1990
First presentation product for Windows
Font trouble
Bullets
Graphing
•PowerPoint 3 – 1992
For Mac and Windows
TrueType Fonts
Transition Effects
Sound and Video
History
PowerPoint 4.0
PowerPoint97
February 1994
May 1997
PowerPoint 7.0
May 1994
History
PowerPoint 2000
PowerPoint 2003
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
Creating a Good Presentation: Fonts
•Choose a font that is easy to read
High
Scri Fun All CAPS
Contrast
pt
•Stick with one or two types of fonts.
•Use a font size of at least 22 points
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It’s just too small!
40 points
22 points
12 points
PowerPoint Tips
Creating a Good Presentation: Backgrounds
•Use the same background
Design Templates
Create your own look
•Choose colors carefully
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It’s just too small!
PowerPoint Tips
Backgrounds: 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 Tips
Backgrounds: Choose Colors Carefully
Use high-contrast colors
White/light text looks sharp!
Especially good for
“low light” presentations
PowerPoint Tips
Backgrounds: 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
Creating a Good Presentation: Text
“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.”
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32 by Martha Lipold, the 7 th Grade
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quote
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Science
Teacher
at Lakeview Academy.
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12.
It’s just too small!
PowerPoint Tips
Creating a Good Presentation: Bullets
•Use an phrases rather than paragraphs
•Use the 6x6 rule
No more than 6 bullets
No more than 6 words per bullet
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It’s just too small!
PowerPoint Tips
Creating a Good Presentation: Media
•Choose graphics and sound carefully
•Media should contribute to the
presentation
…not BE the presentation
PowerPoint Tips
Creating a Great Presentation
Think outside the box!
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It’s just too small!
PowerPoint Tips
Creating a Great Presentation
No bullets
One word or phrase per slide
Slides are cheap
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This is size 12.
It’s just too small!
PowerPoint Tips
Creating a Great Presentation
Limit clipart
Create images
Incorporate Media
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It’s just too small!
PowerPoint In the Classroom
Integration Ideas for Teachers
•Informational
•How-to/Step-by-Step
•Electronic Portfolio - Collections
•Interactive – Action Buttons/Hyperlinks
PowerPoint In the Classroom
Integration Ideas for Teachers
•Thought of the Day
•Periodic Table
•Spelling Practice
•Virtual Field Trip
•Addition
•All About Animals
PowerPoint In the Classroom
Integration 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 Classroom
Integration Ideas for Students
•Language Arts
Genre
Digital Book
Advertisement
News Story
•Art
History
Display student work
PowerPoint In the Classroom
Educational Games
•Are You Smarter Than a 5
•The Big Wheel
•Willington Stakes
•Hidden Picture
•Hollywood Squares
•Jeopardy!
th
Grader?
PowerPoint In the Classroom
Timers
•Seasonal Timer
•Digital Clock
•Hour Glass
PowerPoint In the Classroom
Copyright 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 Classroom
Online Citation Generators
Resources
Integration Ideas
•The PowerPoint Collection – Wow!
•Internet4Classrooms – chock full of goodies
•Curriculum Collection
•PowerPoint Resources
•PowerPoint in the Classroom
Resources
Rubrics
•A+ PowerPoint Rubric
•Rubric for Basic PowerPoint
•TechTrekers Rubric Builder
•Georgia Technology Fair Rubric
Resources
Games
•Parade of Games in PowerPoint
•Emerging Tech Games
•PowerPoint Games
•PointMan Games
•Timers
Resources
Tutorials
Technology for Teachers:
PowerPoint Tutorial
Resources
Templates
Crystal Graphics
Resources
Multimedia
Video, graphics,
music & sound
Credits
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<http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx>
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