2. can be highly boring for your students and should only be used by authorised PowerPoint Teachers

3. Warning

4. PowerPoint

5. It's my duty to warn you

6. How to avoid

7. a Slow Death by PowerPoint

8. (No students were harmed during the making of this presentation)‏

9. The Top Cardinal Sins

10. Cardinal Sin 1

11. The Script

12. The problem is that most people speak at

13. 150 WPM

14. Yet most people read at

15. 250 WPM

18. Cardinal Sin 2

19. Dodging Bullets

20. Example

22. Not exactly exciting is it?

23. To a student this is a signal to

25. Followed with a sprinkling of these

27. And time to catch up on

30. Ditch the bullet points!

31. Cardinal Sin 3

32. Spell Checks

34. Cardinal Sin 4

35. People who love data

36. Think that more is better ?

37. More Data

38. Effectiveness

39. Let's demonstrate this

40. By adding more!

43. In some desperate attempt

44. To convince you of their point

45. Cardinal Sin 5

47. Cardinal Sin 6

48. Animation

49. Can be good

50. For visual learners

51. Animation Can be effective But use too much And 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

52. And your PowerPoint becomes this

53. Animation Blah Boring Like this one? WOW! Look at me Woo Hoo Wheee Yawn Fidget Blah Blah Blah

54. More Animation

55. Less Effect

56. So how do you get away from mindless text and bullets?

58. Example

59. We’ve all heard the proverb

60. A picture is

61. words

62. Taken from an example of a real GCSE Business lesson

64. Doesn’t it make you feel like this?

66. Let’s break it down

67. Technological Forces

68. Manufacturing products only when ordered (JIT)

69. I n c r e a s e s

70. Output & production

71. Productivity

72. Demand for skilled workers

73. Skills education for workforce

74. Technology costs

75. Quality

76. D e c r e a ses

77. Costs and storage space

78. Production downtime storage space

79. Jobs (redundancies)‏ storage space

80. It's all there except

81. You nor the students read it!

83. computer Sometimes the best slides have no text at all

84. Have you got it yet?

85. Less is more

86. Communication involves emotions

87. If you can’t explain it short and simple

88. Then you don’t understand it

89. This is bad communication.

91. This is good communication.

92. Only use images that match your message

93. … and evoke emotion

94. Too much text & data is

96. Never use clipart!

97. L i m i t

99. Less text and data is

100. G d

101. Make only ONE point per slide

102. Dodge the bullets

103. Don’t use bad colour schemes

104. Check your spelling

105. Use pictures

112. Jacqueline Hicks © 2008 Lead Teacher of ICT [email_address]