PowerPoint tips

1. THE USE OF POWERPOINT IN THE
CLASSROOM
Marius Pienaar – Instructional Designer

2. Planning
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The place to start planning your presentation
is with your goal – what do you want to
achieve; and what do you need to be able to
do that.

3. Planning
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Ask yourself these questions:
1.Why am I speaking?
2.Whom am I speaking to?
3.What do they need from me?
4.How do I construct my message?
5.How do I deliver it?

4. Planning
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It will be easier for you to decide what to say
once you know:
Your primary objectives
Your secondary objectives
Your take home message and
Something about your audience

5. Planning
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your secondary objective should be to:
Inform Entertain Persuade Explore
Sell Get support Influence behaviour
Provoke feelings Motivate Arouse
curiosity

6. Planning
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Consider your audience:
What expedience do they have?
How well do they know you?
How do they feel about you?
Do they know your responsibilities and areas of
expertise?
Are they likely to be resistant or apathetic?
What do they need from you?

7. Planning
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Also consider:
Why should they listen to me?
How will they benefit from what I have to
say?
What is the size and shape of the room?
What equipment will be available?

8. Tips for using PowerPoint
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1. Limit the number of words in a sentence
2. Apply the rule of 7 down and 7 wide
3. Do not overfill the slide with text
4. Use contrasting colours
5. Use large font sizes
6. The font must be easy to read
7. Think about the students

9. Tips for using PowerPoint
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10. ANATOMY OF THE EAR
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11. Tips for using PowerPoint
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• Applying the PowerPoint templates to this nice,
straightforward table yields an analytical disaster.
• The data explodes into six separate chaotic slides,
consuming 2.9 times the area of the table.
• Everything is wrong with these smarmy, incoherent
graphs: the encoded legends, the meaningless
colour, the logo-type branding.
• They are uncomparative, indifferent to content and
evidence, and so data-starved as to be almost
pointless.
• Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity.

12. Tips for using PowerPoint
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
• Applying the PowerPoint templates to this nice, straightforward
table yields an analytical disaster.
• The data explodes into six separate chaotic slides, consuming
2.9 times the area of the table.
• Everything is wrong with these smarmy, incoherent graphs: the
encoded legends, the meaningless colour, the logo-type
branding. T
• hey are uncomparative, indifferent to content and evidence,
and so data-starved as to be almost pointless.
• Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity. Applying the
PowerPoint templates to this nice, straightforward table yields
an analytical disaster.
• The data explodes into six separate chaotic slides, consuming
2.9 times the area of the table.

13. Tips for using
PowerPoint
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
1. Limit the number of words in a sentence
2. Apply the rule of 7 down and 7 wide
3. Do not overfill the slide with text
4. Use contrasting colours
5. Use large font sizes
6. The font must be easy to read
7. Think about the students

14. TIPS FOR USING
POWERPOINT
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
1. LIMIT THE NUMBER OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE
2. APPLY THE RULE OF 7 DOWN AND 7 WIDE
3. DO NOT OVERFILL THE SLIDE WITH TEXT
4. USE CONTRASTING COLOURS
5. USE LARGE FONT SIZES
6. THE FONT MUST BE EASY TO READ
7. THINK ABOUT THE STUDENTS

15. TIPS FOR USING POWERPOINT
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
1. Limit the number of words in a sentence
2. Apply the rule of 7 down and 7 wide
3. Do NOT overfill the slide with text
4. Use contrasting colours
5. Use large FONT sizes
6. The font must be EASY to read
7. Think about the students

16. TIPS FOR USING POWERPOINT
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
1. Limit the number of words in a sentence
2. Apply the rule of 7 down and 7 wide
3. Do NOT overfill the slide with text
4. Use contrasting colours
5. Use large FONT sizes
6. The font must be EASY to read
7. Think about the students

17. TIPS FOR USING POWERPOINT
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
1. Limit the number of words in a sentence
2. Apply the rule of 7 down and 7 wide
3. Do NOT overfill the slide with text
4. Use contrasting colours
5. Use large FONT sizes
6. The font must be EASY to read
7. Think about the students

18. TIPS FOR USING POWERPOINT
DVC: Teaching Learning and Technology
1. Limit the number of words in a sentence
2. Apply the rule of 7 down and 7 wide
3. Do NOT overfill the slide with text
4. Use contrasting colours
5. Use large FONT sizes
6. The font must be EASY to read
7. Think about the students

19. USING TABLES
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Knowledge To know the content
Comprehension Understand the content
Application Apply content
Analysis Analyse content / take apart
Synthesis Synthesise/put together
content
Evaluation Evaluate and create new

20. USING TABLES
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Knowledge If we include too much content in a
table, it will also lead to confusion.
Comprehension We do not want students to spend
time on reading full sentences. We
only want to highlight specific
issues
Application When the content is applied, it
relates to the application in a
specific context

21. USING GRAPHS
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22. USING GRAPHS
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