16. 1. Some teachers like to put every single thing they
are going to say on their slides. Although this
means that you do not have to remember what to
say on your slides. This makes your slides boring,
text heavy and causes your students eyes to
glaze over, the mobile phones come out and the
fidgeting begins. They begin to wonder why they
are even listening to you as they have already
used up all their brain power reading ahead and
drawing their own conclusions. All this before you
even reach the bottom of your. . .
Common PowerPoint Mistakes
21. This is a Very Important Slide
• In case you had not understood the fact that this is a very important slide
from the heading I am going to make sure that you read the information
again in many different ways
• The problem with very important slides (VIS) is that you try to get as much
information on to them as possible
• Because as we all know in teaching you can’t just say something once you
have to make sure its said or shown three times in three different ways to
get the same message across!
• That way the little blighters can’t say you did not tell them
• The sad thing is this causes Teachers to use PowerPoint's with lots of
different levels and bullet points to put across the same key message (over
and over again!)
– Here it is again – I am important – read me!
• Have you got the point yet
– Please remember I am important too even if I am a third level bullet point
• It does not matter how many different ways you try to cram the information in
– Nobody is going to read it anyway
• So its all pretty pointless
– And you end up wasting your time
» Want students to read ? Give it to them on paper! A slide is not the place to do it
• Whoopee!
29. • Avoid
• Using
• Too
• Many
• Bullet
• Points
• To
• Try
• To
• Get
• Your
• Message
• Across
Common PowerPoint Mistakes
• To
• Your
• Class
• Too
• Many
• And
• Your
• Key
• Messages
• Will
• Be
• Lost
• And all
• That
• Animation
• And
• Annoying
• Sound
• Effects
• Make
• Students
• Want
• To leave
• To go
• To the
• Bathroom
33. Many Teachers do not even run a spell cheek
before their presentation!
BIG MISTAK – Nothing makes you look more
stupid that selling errrs
Common PowerPoint Mistakes
46. Bad Colour Schemes
• Clashing backgrounds and font colours can
lead to
– Thumping headache
– Motion sickness
– Distraction
– Unexplained rashes
– Mental confusion
– Continual fidgeting
– Loss of bladder control
51. Animation
Can be
effective
But use too
muchAnd you end up
with your
students
Going
WOW!
This is just
so cool
And not actually
Taking
Any notice
Of what
You are trying to
say
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94. 1. Don McMillan (life after death by Powerpoint)
2. Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) by Alexei
Kapterev
3. Dodging bullets in presentations by Rowan Manahan
(fortifyservices. Blogspot.com)
4. Flikr-Storm
5. www.slideshare.net
6. www.google.co.uk/images
7. Music from www.freeplaymusic.com track – “Warped”
8. Music from www.freeplaymusic.com track – “She will
stop”
9. Music from www.freeplaymusic.com track – “Misfit”
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