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Discussion Topic
Look through one
of the listed reading resources, selecting the parts that
you are most interested in. What did you learn?
What can you use?
In the
Teaching with PowerPoint YahooGroup, click
Messages > Post to write your comments
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Reading Materials
1.
Christine's Tips for PowerPoint
(a tremendous collection
of insights and tools for ESL instructors from Christine
Bauer-Ramazani)
2.
15
PowerPoint Tips
3.
PowerPoint -- Creating Classroom Presentations
(a thought-stimulating
article that includes putting PPT creation in the hands of
the students)
Additional Readings |
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Tasks
Task 1: Avoiding the
Creation of Bad PowerPoint Slides
Download and watch
Making PowerPoint Slides -- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Bad
Slides
Task 2: Expansion
and Building of Your PPT Lesson/Project
a) The continuing
development of your project should consist of 3-4 additional
slides that include pictures, animated objects, and slide
transitions.
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Use your PPT from last
week and build on/expand
it.
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Modify and improve your
previous work,
reflecting new insights
gained.
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View the model PPT
presentation in our
YahooGroup > FILES
> Model PowerPoint
Presentations >
Model PPT--Week 3,"
to see how the features
for this week are
incorporated.
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Click on the link to the
PowerPoint 2002
Beginning
tutorial. Walk through
the tasks on pages
11-15:
Pictures (from
Clip Art, from Files,
from the Internet--p.
11)--moving,
resizing, rotating,
compressing
(p. 12/13)--Animating
an Object (Text or
Pictures)
(p. 13),
Changing the Order
Objects Play
(p. 13),
Slide Transitions
(p. 14),
Self-Running Show
(p. 14),
Printing
(p. 15)
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See also
the Microsoft
tutorials,
Add Animation Effects to diagrams in PowerPoint
presentations or
Custom animation (with voice) or
Custom Effects for Text and Pictures. A tutorial on
Motion Paths might also be interesting.
Special considerations
(technical and
pedagogical) for
animation effects:
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Preview your slides
as a full slide
show, i.e. in Play
mode (not just in
the Edit mode).
View it from the
point of view of
your audience (your
students, your
peers) with respect
to when/how fast/how
much of the text
comes in.
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Check the
transitions of
slides and custom
animation for mouse
clicks. Consider
the pros and cons of
mouse clicks vs
automatic timings.
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***VERY
IMPORTANT Notes
about
Animation--READ and
CONSIDER CAREFULLY:
Although animations
are wonderful, they
increase file size
immensely. Please
use your best
judgment as to what
animations would
look good and work
well for pedagogical
purposes. Please review
your slideshow from
your audience's
point of view.
Animating each
letter to rotate or
fly in individually
is not
appropriate
in a technical or
pedagogical sense.
Use the full
slide show view
(Play mode) to
review your work,
not just the View
Slide Show in edit
mode, as it does not
reveal how the text
animations work.
Please view this
example of
purposeful
animations, created
by a language
teacher:
Teaching Direct
Object Pronouns in
Spanish.
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b) Use the
Checklist, Elements of Effective PowerPoints--Week 3
to make sure you have included the necessary components.
c) Upload your
lesson/project to the
Teaching with PowerPoint YG >
Files > Week 3
Participant PowerPoints.
Request feedback from the group.
Important
note: To save file space in our YahooGroup, we
may have to delete previous week's PPTs or store them in an
archival YahooGroup.
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Checklist of Tasks
I have...
1.
Read an article on a chosen
topic and posted a brief reaction to it in the Yahoo!Group;
2.
Viewed a model PPT slide show on
skills that go beyond the basics;
3.
Expanded my PPT lesson/project
and incorporated elements that go beyond the basics;
considered the technical and pedagogical effects of
animation, mouse clicks, automatic timing; uploaded the
project to the Y
Teaching with PowerPoint YG >
Files > Week 3
Participant PowerPoints.
©
EVO PowerPoint team:
Christine Bauer-Ramazani,
Sandy Wagner, Paula Emmert, Roger Drury, Jessica Noyes, Kent
Matsueda, Susan Burg, Jennie Brown
Created November 2, 2006; last updated
January 20, 2008 |
