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Introduction
 Slide presentation software such as PowerPoint has become an
  ingrained part of many instructional settings, particularly in large
  classes and in courses more geared toward information exchange
  than skill development. PowerPoint can be a highly effective tool to
  aid learning, but if not used carefully, may instead disengage
  students and actually hinder learning.
Advantages

Potential benefits of using presentation graphics
include:
 Engaging multiple learning styles
 Increasing visual impact
 Improving audience focus
 Providing annotations and highlights
 Analyzing and synthesizing complexities
 Enriching curriculum with interdisciplinarity
 Increasing spontaneity and interactivity
 Increasing wonder
Challenges
 Although there are many potential benefits to
 PowerPoint, there are several issues that could
 create problems or disengagement:
   Teacher-centered. Students often respond better when instructors have designed sessions for greater
    classroom interaction, such as the use of student response clickers, designing PowerPoint to facilitate case
    studies, or use the slides as a replacement for paper worksheets.
   Lack of feedback. PowerPoint-based lectures tell you nothing about student learning. Design them to include
    opportunities for feedback (not simply asking if there are questions, but more actively quizzing your
    students). This often takes the form of listing questions, not information, on the slides themselves.
   Student inactivity. Slide shows do little to model how students should interact with the material on their
    own. Include student activities or demonstrations to overcome this, either before or after the slideshow
    presentation.
   Potentially reductive. PowerPoint was designed to promote simple persuasive arguments. Design for critical
    engagement, not just for exposure to a “point.”
   Presentation graphics should be about learning, not about presentation.
   PowerPoint presentations should help students organize their notes, not just “be” the notes. This is a
    particular danger with students who grew up accustomed to receiving PowerPoint notes to study from.
    Some may require convincing that notes should be taken beyond what is already on the slides.
PowerPoint for Case Studies
 Elizabeth Rash (Nursing) provided this sample iterative case study
  (where parameters evolve over time) given to a midsize class. Students
  are required to come to class prepared having read online
  resources, the text, and a narrated slideshow presentation that
  accompanies each module. The classroom is problem-based (case-
  based) and interactive, where students are introduced to a young
  woman who ages as the semester progresses and confronts multiple
  health issues. Since the nurse practitioner students are being prepared
  to interact with patients, some slides require students to interview
  another classmate in a micro role-play.
 Problem-based lectures frequently alternate between providing
  information and posing problems to the students, which alters the
  entire character of the presentation. Rather than explain and convey
  information, many slides ask questions that are intended to prompt
  critical thinking or discussion.
PowerPoint Interactions:
Student Response "Clickers"
 Classroom response systems can improve students' learning by
  engaging them actively in the learning process. Instructors can employ
  the systems to gather individual responses from students or to gather
  anonymous feedback. It is possible to use the technology to give
  quizzes and tests, to take attendance, and to quantify class
  participation. Some of the systems provide game formats that
  encourage debate and team competition. Reports are typically exported
  to Excel for upload to the instructor's grade book. Learn more about
  how to use this system in your own classes.
PowerPoint as Worksheet
 Instructors who do not have sufficient photocopying
  opportunities in their departments may be less likely to use
  paper worksheets with their students, especially in large classes.
  PowerPoint offers the ability to approximate worksheets to
  illustrate processes or to provide "worked examples" that shows
  problem-solving step-by-step. One valuable technique is to first
  demonstrate a process or problem on one slide, then ask
  students to work on a similar problem revealed on the next
  slide, using their own paper rather than worksheets handed
  out.
Narrated PowerPoint Downloads
 The PowerPoint software itself includes built-in
  functionality to record your audio commentary. In this
  fashion, instructors can literally deliver their entire lecture
  electronically, which can be especially useful in an online
  course. The resulting file is still a standard PowerPoint file,
  but when the slideshow is "played," the recorded
  instructor's voice narrates the action, and the slides advance
  on their own, turning whenever they had been advanced by
  the lecturer during the recording.
Presenter View
 Using this mode of PowerPoint, your slides are projected as
  usual on the big screen and fill the entire space, but the
  computer used by the lecturer displays the slides in preview
  mode, with the space for notes visible at the bottom of the
  screen. In this fashion, lecturers can have a set of notes
  separate from what is displayed to the students, which has
  the overall effect of increasing the engagement of the
  presentation.
THANK YOU !! 
Lorenzo Luis Gonzales
FV1216

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Gonzales ppt.pptm

  • 1.
  • 2. Introduction  Slide presentation software such as PowerPoint has become an ingrained part of many instructional settings, particularly in large classes and in courses more geared toward information exchange than skill development. PowerPoint can be a highly effective tool to aid learning, but if not used carefully, may instead disengage students and actually hinder learning.
  • 3. Advantages Potential benefits of using presentation graphics include:
  • 4.  Engaging multiple learning styles  Increasing visual impact  Improving audience focus  Providing annotations and highlights  Analyzing and synthesizing complexities  Enriching curriculum with interdisciplinarity  Increasing spontaneity and interactivity  Increasing wonder
  • 5. Challenges  Although there are many potential benefits to PowerPoint, there are several issues that could create problems or disengagement:
  • 6. Teacher-centered. Students often respond better when instructors have designed sessions for greater classroom interaction, such as the use of student response clickers, designing PowerPoint to facilitate case studies, or use the slides as a replacement for paper worksheets.  Lack of feedback. PowerPoint-based lectures tell you nothing about student learning. Design them to include opportunities for feedback (not simply asking if there are questions, but more actively quizzing your students). This often takes the form of listing questions, not information, on the slides themselves.  Student inactivity. Slide shows do little to model how students should interact with the material on their own. Include student activities or demonstrations to overcome this, either before or after the slideshow presentation.  Potentially reductive. PowerPoint was designed to promote simple persuasive arguments. Design for critical engagement, not just for exposure to a “point.”  Presentation graphics should be about learning, not about presentation.  PowerPoint presentations should help students organize their notes, not just “be” the notes. This is a particular danger with students who grew up accustomed to receiving PowerPoint notes to study from. Some may require convincing that notes should be taken beyond what is already on the slides.
  • 8.  Elizabeth Rash (Nursing) provided this sample iterative case study (where parameters evolve over time) given to a midsize class. Students are required to come to class prepared having read online resources, the text, and a narrated slideshow presentation that accompanies each module. The classroom is problem-based (case- based) and interactive, where students are introduced to a young woman who ages as the semester progresses and confronts multiple health issues. Since the nurse practitioner students are being prepared to interact with patients, some slides require students to interview another classmate in a micro role-play.  Problem-based lectures frequently alternate between providing information and posing problems to the students, which alters the entire character of the presentation. Rather than explain and convey information, many slides ask questions that are intended to prompt critical thinking or discussion.
  • 10.  Classroom response systems can improve students' learning by engaging them actively in the learning process. Instructors can employ the systems to gather individual responses from students or to gather anonymous feedback. It is possible to use the technology to give quizzes and tests, to take attendance, and to quantify class participation. Some of the systems provide game formats that encourage debate and team competition. Reports are typically exported to Excel for upload to the instructor's grade book. Learn more about how to use this system in your own classes.
  • 12.  Instructors who do not have sufficient photocopying opportunities in their departments may be less likely to use paper worksheets with their students, especially in large classes. PowerPoint offers the ability to approximate worksheets to illustrate processes or to provide "worked examples" that shows problem-solving step-by-step. One valuable technique is to first demonstrate a process or problem on one slide, then ask students to work on a similar problem revealed on the next slide, using their own paper rather than worksheets handed out.
  • 14.  The PowerPoint software itself includes built-in functionality to record your audio commentary. In this fashion, instructors can literally deliver their entire lecture electronically, which can be especially useful in an online course. The resulting file is still a standard PowerPoint file, but when the slideshow is "played," the recorded instructor's voice narrates the action, and the slides advance on their own, turning whenever they had been advanced by the lecturer during the recording.
  • 16.  Using this mode of PowerPoint, your slides are projected as usual on the big screen and fill the entire space, but the computer used by the lecturer displays the slides in preview mode, with the space for notes visible at the bottom of the screen. In this fashion, lecturers can have a set of notes separate from what is displayed to the students, which has the overall effect of increasing the engagement of the presentation.