Using PowerPoint
differently online
Patrick R. Lowenthal
CU Online
[email protected]
Agenda
1. Death by PowerPoint Movement
2. Strategies to improve PowerPoint Use
3. Everything Changes Online
4. Tools of the Trade
5. Distribution
6. Q & A
Death
by
PowerPoint
Peter Norvig -- http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm
4
Edward Tufte
5
Cognitive Style of
PowerPoint
6
• “Official: PowerPoint is bad for
Brains”
• “Bad PowerPoint: When is enough,
enough?”
• “PowerPoint: Shot with its own
bullets”
• “PowerPoint is evil”
• “Does PowerPoint make us Stupid?”
• “PowerPoint: Can software edit our
thoughts?”
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Tufte’s Problems
1.Low resolution
2.Bullet outlines dilute thought
3.Deeply hierarchical and linear structure
4.Fragments narrative and data
5.Preoccupation with format, not content
6.Decoration and phluff
Problems w/ Tufte
1.Focused on presentations—not learning
2.Blames the tool
3.Over-emphasis on content
4.Doesn’t offer any strategies to improve
PowerPoint
Improving
PowerPoint
Use
Tufte’s Implicit Tips
1.Use more visuals and give handouts
2.Avoid bulleted outlines
3.Develop non-linear presentations
4.Use non-distracting backgrounds;
avoid distracting images
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Rules of Thumb
1. Should support learning objectives
2. Avoid PPT templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & fewer slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
Other Strategies
1.6 x 6
2.10, 20, 30 rule
3.Ignite
4.Pecha Kucha
5.Gar Reynolds Top 10 (Presentation 2.0)
Everything
Changes
Online!
I Have a Question ???
Online
Imperative
Narrate
Add Content
Ways to Narrate
1. Use PowerPoint
2. Use a PPT add-on
(e.g., Adobe Presenter,
iSpring, Articulate, Impatica)
3.Use a third party app
(e.g., Adobe Connect, Jing,
PhotoStory, MovieMaker,
iMovie)
Lets Create this Document Together
http://tinyurl.com/FLCpowerpoint
Ways to Add Content
1. Add More Text /
Graphics to Body of the
Slides
2. Add Notes
Adding More Text
This slide is an example of what a PowerPoint slide
online might look like:
More content is better online
When developing PowerPoint presentations for online learning, the rules change.
The number one reason is because your audience is now sitting right at a
computer screen. Therefore, while the two central principles (i.e., sound
instructional design and sound message design) remain important because
learners often skim instead of read content online, the actual development of the
PowerPoint presentation changes and becomes more like designing a webpage.
Implications
The number one way this impacts faculty is by the fact that one presentation
cannot and should not be used for classroom and online courses—that is, unless
you are going to include audio or video to supplement the slides.
Adding More Text
Other
Things
Adding Interactivity
The Rules Change Online
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This slide is another example of what a
PowerPoint slide online might look like:
Interactivity
When developing PowerPoint presentations online, it is important
to recognize and take advantage of the fact that your learner is now
able to interact with your presentation. Therefore, including URL’s,
video, audio, games, quizzes, can all strengthen your presentation
as a learning experience.
Bandwidth
The size of your files, images that you use, and any video
components takes on new importance. As a general rule of thumb,
it is hard to email anything over 4mb so you should strive to keep
your PowerPoint presentations under 4mb.
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Moving Beyond Static Text
1. Interactivity
We need to think of ways
to get students to interact
2. MS Producer for PowerPointand actively engage in
their learning.
3. Articulate Presenter
4. Impatica for PowerPoint
5. Games
6. Digital Stories
Moving Beyond Static Text
1. Interactivity
2. MS Producer for PowerPoint
3. Articulate Presenter
4. Impatica for PowerPoint
5. Games
6. Digital Stories
MS Producer is a
good tool if you
want to add audio
and video to your
slides.
It is also free!
Moving Beyond Static Text
1. Interactivity
2. MS Producer for PowerPoint
3. Articulate Presenter
4. Impatica for PowerPoint
5. Games
6. Digital Stories
Articulate Presenter
offers a seamless
(but expensive)
alternative to
Producer. Also has
quiz making tools.
Moving Beyond Static Text
1. Interactivity
2. MS Producer for PowerPoint
3. Articulate Presenter
4. Impatica for PowerPoint
5. Games
6. Digital Stories
Impatica is an easy
tool to covert
PowerPoint slides
for the web.
Moving Beyond Static Text
1. Interactivity
2. MS Producer for PowerPoint
3. Articulate Presenter
4. Impatica for PowerPoint
5. Games
6. Digital Stories
PowerPoint can
used to create
learning games to
engage students
online
Moving Beyond Static Text
1. Interactivity
2. MS Producer for PowerPoint
3. Articulate Presenter
4. Impatica for PowerPoint
5. Games
6. Digital Stories
Digital stories can
be an effective way
to build teacher
presence online.
Other Ideas?
Distribution
Patrick Lowenthal
[email protected]
www.slideshare.net/plowenthal