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"Since Microsoft launched the ... program 22 years ago, it’s been installed on no fewer than 1 billion computers; an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given each second across the globe... no field of human endeavor can defy its facility for reducing complexity and nuance to bullet points and big ideas to tacky clip art. On June 18, the Iranian government made the case for its highly contested nuclear program to world leaders with a 47-slide deck. ... A few weeks later, scientists ...announced the momentous discovery of the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” using 52 PowerPoint slides ... the New York Knicks tried to woo LeBron James with a PowerPoint pitch, which may explain why James won his first NBA championship in Miami." -Fobes, http://tinyurl.com/forbesdeathtoppt

As such we need to be very conscious of our intent, use and design of our PowerPoint to make it be an effective teaching tool vs a distraction or hindrance.
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Powerpoint BEst Practices

Published on Nov 28, 2015

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Powerpoint BEst Practices

Some initial thoughts...
"Since Microsoft launched the ... program 22 years ago, it’s been installed on no fewer than 1 billion computers; an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given each second across the globe... no field of human endeavor can defy its facility for reducing complexity and nuance to bullet points and big ideas to tacky clip art. On June 18, the Iranian government made the case for its highly contested nuclear program to world leaders with a 47-slide deck. ... A few weeks later, scientists ...announced the momentous discovery of the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” using 52 PowerPoint slides ... the New York Knicks tried to woo LeBron James with a PowerPoint pitch, which may explain why James won his first NBA championship in Miami." -Fobes, http://tinyurl.com/forbesdeathtoppt

As such we need to be very conscious of our intent, use and design of our PowerPoint to make it be an effective teaching tool vs a distraction or hindrance.
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We Know A LOt Now

about people & multimedia
"PowerPoint affects not only the way we present and teach, but also the way we think, learn and understand. ... we should stop thinking in terms of technology and begin to think rhetorically."
-Jens Kjeldsen
http://tinyurl.com/rhetppt

"5 Conditions for Effective Multimedia Presentations:
1-Spatial Contiguity
corresponding words-pictures near each other on page or screen
2-Temporal Contiguity
corresponding words & pictures presented simultaneously rather than successively in time
3-Coherence
minimize extraneous words, sounds & pictures
4-Modality
words presented as speech rather than text
5-Redundancy
Words presented as speech rather than as speech & text."
-Mayer, "Multimedia Learning" (2001), pg 187
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Powerpoint Breaks Bad

by Default...
"PowerPoint... carries an inherent tendency to create fragmentation of thought and
cognitive overload."
-Jens Kjeldsen
http://tinyurl.com/rhetppt

"The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content.... PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words, which is about eight seconds' worth of silent reading material. With so little information per slide, many, many slides are needed. Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequentiality, one damn slide after another. When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships....the PowerPoint (default) style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple."
-Edward Tufte,
http://tinyurl.com/tuftepptevil


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Essential to Share

for student success!
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5.

So What's Working/ed?

For You...
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BAN OVERLOAD

"PowerPoint slides ...simply present too much information for the human mind to handle. Typical slides filled with busy backgrounds, endless bullet points, and a tangle of diagrams clearly shut down understanding, instead of opening it up."
-Atkinson & Meyer
http://tinyurl.com/po4n5ml

* Don’t include irrelevant illustrations, animations, transitions or sounds

* Minimize ONSCREEN text – Less is better
Narration is better than written words for learning and retention in a classroom context. Clarity, not comprehensiveness, is your primary objective. In most cases, this means using short phrases rather than full sentences in your bullet points. Move text to notes or nouns & verbs in sentences handouts.
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Right Tool for the Right Job

“Rather than starting with the technology, start with the intellectual problem to be solved…. the computer industry overflows with technologies desperately looking for some kind of problem to solve.”
-Edward Tufte

"That's what I have meant all along by saying 'the medium is the message', for the medium determines the modes of perception and the matrix of assumptions within which objectives are set. All of my recommendations ... can be reduced to this one: study the modes of the media, in order to hoick all assumptions out of the subliminal, nonverbal realm for scrutiny and for prediction and control of human purposes."
- Marshall McLuhan, McLuhan: Hot and Cool, ed. George Stearn, 1967
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use imagery mindfully

• Be stingy & strategic with imagery use!

– A good picture is worth a thousand words and a bad one needs explanation. Choose pictures, graphs and videos that clearly demonstrate the point you want to make and make sure each image earns its keep somehow -


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Imagery for Learning Bull's Eye

"FUNCTION of Graphics =
* Surface (format/type of visual -- not as important)
* Communication Functions
* Psychological Functions

Psychological functions of Graphics:
-Support Attention
-Activate or Build Prior Knowledge
-Minimize Cognitive Load
-Build Mental Models
-Support Transfer of Learning
-Support Motivation

Communication Functions of Graphics:
-Decorative
-Representational
-Mnemonic
-Organizational
-Relational
-Transformational
-Interpretive"
-"Graphics for Learning", Clark & Lyons (2010) Pfeiffer
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Go Big & BRIEF

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
-Steve Jobs
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Mike Welker