How to give a good presentation

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How to give a good presentation
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Outline

• Reaching students
• PowerPoint options
• Presentation mechanics
• Summary

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Reaching Students

• Classroom
• Lecture
• Bell opening
• Announcements
• Poster
• Parent conference presentation

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What is Your Message?

• Know your audience
• What are they supposed to learn?
• Start with mechanics
• Focus on the message
• Use outline format
• Your slides should be interesting
• Practice makes perfect
• Self ? Peers ? Outsiders

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Starting Off
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Design Template
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Applying Slide Layout

• Manipulate the following-
• Text Layout
• Content Layout
• Both Text Content
• Use other layout options using Clip Art, Graphs,
  Tables ,Charts.

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Mechanics

• Slide layout
• Insert options
• Clip art
• Graphs
• Animation
• Movie Clip
• Sound
• Table
• Transition between slides

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Slide Layout
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Font

• Anything less than 16 point font is hard to read
• Eight Sixteen Twenty-four Thirty
• Many prefer san serif font such as Arial
• Arial Times New Roman

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Use Color Effectively

• Color scheme
• White background
• Black text
• Red to draw attention
• Be careful of

Red on Blue Red on Blue
Yellow on White
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Too Much Text

• Preferably greater than 16 point font
• Eight Sixteen Twenty-four Thirty
• Preferably use Arial
• Arial Times New Roman
• Color scheme
• White background
• Black text
• Red to draw attention
• Be careful of
• MAKE SURE THAT YOUR SLIDES ARENT OVERLOADED WITH
  INFORMATION!!!!!
• AT LEAST ONE MINUTE PER SLIDE.

Red on Blue Red on Blue
Yellow on White
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Clip Art
Clip Art is available with your computer software
package or can also be downloaded from the web
Click on Insert Click on Picture Select Clip
Art
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Insert Picture from File
You may want to use a picture from the web or
from a file in your presentation
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Graph
The difference in the percentage of males
passing math minus the percentage of females
passing math in the SMART districts for the
2003-2004 school year
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Video Clips

• Various educational video clippings that can be
  used for teaching are available on the web.
• For example the landing of Neil Armstrong on the
  moon as shown here.

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Create Posters
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Transition

• Tell em what you are going to tell em.
• Tell em.
• Tell em what you told em.

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Transition

• Tell em what you are going to tell em.
• Tell em.
• Tell em what you told em.

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Transition

• Tell em what you are going to tell em.
• Tell em.
• Tell em what you told em.

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Include some humorwhere possible appropriate
Cicada Courtship Lessons for Life
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Slide Master
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Animation
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Conclusions

• PowerPoint is an effective teaching tool.
• Features include
• Slide Master
• Adjustable format, font, layout
• Insert
• Clip Art, Movies, Sound, Animation
• Picture from File, Pictures from Web
• Graph, Chart, Table
• Slide Show
• Poster

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Acknowledgements

• National Science Foundation
• Project STEP
• University of Cincinnati
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