PowerPoint Makes You Dumb Cyberspace Yes, PowerPoint No!

PowerPoint Poisoning

Death By PowerPoint PowerPoint: Shot With Its Own Bullets

PowerPointless

“PowerPoint has not improved medical pedagogy: it has instead made the large lecture experience a mind numbing waste of time.”

“PowerPoint has not improved medical pedagogy: it has instead made the large lecture experience a mind numbing waste of time.”

Student Newspapers

RateMyProfessor.com

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!

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Why I hate most PowerPoint Lectures

And believe it or not, he had a third bullet point on that slide

Stop UsingPowerPoin

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Why?Why?

PowerPoint can be Saved!

3 strategies to get your faculty

hooked on really good PowerPoint

CollaborateCollaborate

ReCreateReCreate

CaptivateCaptivate

with others

the concept

the learner

CollaborateCollaborate

Provide 1:1 Consulting

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Provide 1:1 Consulting

Who’s using PowerPoint

How is it being used

Identify unique needs

Identify Innovators

Invite Faculty to Present

Ray McGivney

Sourceh: Carl Berger, The Next Killer App: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/carat.copy/presentations__listed_by_date_

Invite Faculty to Present

Some thoughts on how to avoid making really awful PowerPoint

lectures

by Chris AndersonPolitics and Government Department

University of Hartford

1. The Autocontent Wizard

• 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?

is not your friend

2. Design templates are not cool2. 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 lectureY= Better handwritingZ= Spontaneity

L’= Not so awful PowerPoint LectureI= Imaginative use of images and animationE= EmphasisD= DataP= ProcessesN= NarrativesQ= 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. Introduce

anarchy

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. 

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I use them to emphasize important points, to provide visual representation of data, and to add illustrations to narratives.  

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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.  

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Adventures of aPowerPoint neophyte

Ray McGivneyIn conjunction with FCLD

October 6, 2006 Mis

Mis

My History

• 1965-1980 Chalk

• 1980-1995 Whiteboard

• 1995-2005 Transparencies

• 2005-Present THIS!

Outline

• Background

• Two Early Mistakes

• Formatting Mistakes

• Mistakes with Content

• Some Positives

• Designing a Lesson

• T -15

• Showtime

• Student Remarks

• What I like about PowerPoint

• Next?

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

ReCreateReCreate

Ask the big question:

Is PowerPoint Evil?

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

Redesign your workshops

Change the context

Storytelling Movies

Narratives frames

Picture Shows

Change the context

Demonstrate innovation

Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture Dick Hardt – OSCON

Disseminate ideas

Disseminate ideasParade of Games Website:http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/

CaptivateCaptivate

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

CollaborateCollaborate

ReCreateReCreate

CaptivateCaptivate

with others

the concept

the learner

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

RepublicRes + PublicaThing + Public

The Public ThingCommon Good• Small territories

• Civic Virtue

Massachusetts

Massachusetts

No Taxes Generous Loan Repayment Terms

BUDGET

CRISIS

Massachusetts

No Taxes Generous Loan Repayment Terms

BUDGET

CRISIS

Taxes!

Massachusetts

Republic?

Glen Adsit: Music for the eyes

Ray McGivney: A contemporary approach to contemporary mathematics

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I crossed all the edges once and only once

and I came home. Easy stuff for us

college presidents

Walt starts

Walt ends

at same place

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 It’s rather sad that that’s what all that expensive tuition is paying

for.for.

What do we call it?

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, DirectorFaculty Center for Learning DevelopmentUniversity of Hartfordlpwilson@hartford.edu

Ella Holst, Regional Education Specialist Yale New Haven Health Office of Emergency PreparednessElla.Holst@ynhh.org

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