Graphic Design Principles in PowerPoint Design

1. Monday P5 Year 7a4 6 May, 2016
Be able to enhance our
PowerPoints so that we can
manage attention and thinking

2. Answer questions by yourself, then read 
Last Lesson Questions
Q1 – Did you use a PowerPoint this week?
Q2 – Do you have a bank of PowerPoints to use?
Q3 – Have you been trained in PowerPoint?
Deeper Questions
Q4 – What is the purpose of PowerPoint for you?
Q5 – How can PowerPoint help your explanations?
Q6 – How can PowerPoint become a responsive
teaching tool rather than a linear guide?
6 May, 2016

3. What do we need to think about?
1) How is PowerPoint used traditionally (or poorly...)?
2) What are some considerations to enhance
PowerPoint (massively)?
3) How can we critique those (obviously amazing!)
enhancements?

4. Behaviour management vs
attention management.
Managing Attention
PowerPoint for
Planning – linear or
responsive?

5. Behaviour management vs
attention management.
Managing Attention
PowerPoint for
Planning – linear or
responsive?

7. Bullet points, smaller pictures, titles on every slide.
White space
“Most of you have probably had to make a
PowerPoint presentation, so you probably know
the basic PowerPoint rules: Use a lot of bullet
points. Don't overdo the text. Avoid multimedia
excesses. Et cetera.”
PCWorld.com
Traditional PowerPoint uses...

8. Consider instead…
Hinge
questions in
yellow
bubbles
Textual
references in
green
Full screen pictures
Teaching points in
blue

9. See an echo of the compelling picture afterwards.

10. See an echo of the compelling picture afterwards.
Here you can ask a
question about
something
unusual (or refer
to revision!).

11. Text boxes that
integrate with the
text.

12. Pictures that
metaphorically
enhance the
learning point.
E.g. How do
F/L/S combine
to enhance
meaning?

13. Pictures that
metaphorically
enhance the
learning point.
Search (sniff!)
the entire text
for details.

14. Connecting the poems
What ideas
connect the
two poems?
What quotes
link to those
ideas?

15. Write a comparative
SWEATY
Remember the final
comparison sentence.
Explore the experience of conflict in … and
one other poem.
Focus on a language
technique

16. Music for entry
and exit
activities.
Easy hyperlinked
to generic slides to
guide the use of
other activities
and rubrics and
suchlike.

17. Issues with enhancing PowerPoints

18. Issues with enhancing PowerPoints
Size of PowerPoint
Using in classrooms
when you are moving
to multiple places
Actually being
trained!