1. Presentations that Inspire
Maureen Wideman, PhD
UOIT

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3. Your gender is
Female
Male

4. My PowerPoint presentations are engaging
True
False

6. What is PowerPoint? A replacement for overheads
Talking points for teachers
Aid for speakers
All of the above

7. We’ve all seen PowerPoint presentations that are just words on the screen or a series of bulleted points that go on and on and on. They are hard to read or there are so many words on the screen that it is just too much effort to try and read them. Therefore, students don’t bother trying to read what is on the screen but just listen to the teacher read the text off the screen. So, if the teacher is going just read the words off the screen, why bother having the teacher present? What is the value of the presentation?

8. What are the problems with PowerPoint?

10. Sitting for long periods
is not brain friendly

11. How long is the average attention span?
2 minutes
5 minutes
15 minutes
30 minutes

12. The average attention span
is 15 minutes

13. PowerPoint lectures don’t address the different learning styles.

14. Learning styles: VARK – visual, auditory, read/write, kinestetic

15. Encourages passive learning

17. I’m not here to teach you, I’m here to help you learn.

18. The brain is constantly searching for:
relevance
patterns and connections
emotions

19. Why do I need to know this?

20. Create an emotional response

21. 55% of information is gained visually

22. Text vs. Images

23. Images tell us what we should remember but we understand through words Susan Sontag

24. Images can tell the entire story

25. Michael Phelps

27. Why are images important?
Students like pictures
Most information is received visually
They take more room on the slide
Reduce your workload

28. Think, pair, share
What is the most important point I have made in the last 15 minutes?

29. Engage and Involve
What are other ways to learn this concept, fact, procedure, etc. ?

30. Make use of multimedia

31. PowerPoint Games

32. Activity

33. What is active learning
Learning by doing
Learning from others
Learning that requires a higher level of thinking
All of the above

34. A few design tips:
Remember the 5 x 5 rule
NOT!

35. Keep transitions to a single type

36. Because

37. Too many transitions

38. Can make the viewer nauseous

39. One type of custom animation
Don’t do this
Especially if you are doing this
Or even this!

40. Backgrounds should be simple to allow the text to stand out.
Innovation Centre
Death by PowerPoint
Backgrounds
Backgrounds should be simple
to allow the text to stand out.
Backgrounds should be simple
to allow the text to stand out.

41. How can PPT kill learning?
Too much text
Not enough images
No multimedia
No active learning
All are correct

42. An example
Thirst
Clickers

43. What are the components of a good presentation?

44. Participant Scores Participant 1 Participant 2 Participant 3
Participant 1
Participant 2
Participant 3
Participant 4
Participant 5

45. Questions?