Teaching the Effective Use of PowerPoint
Tech Tip: Copy a PowerPoint Template Design
PowerPoint Extreme Makeover
Dean Shareski’s excellent “must see” video demonstrates common PowerPoint design mistakes, as well as tips on how to teach and model the effective use of PowerPoint in the classroom.
Scoring PowerPoints
Jamie McKenzie describes how to avoid “PowerPointlessness”, and shows how teachers can structure the effective use of PowerPoint to promote high-level thinking skills.
PowerPoint Magic
Pamela Lewis provides a quick list of important guidelines for teachers to follow in order to develop the full learning potential of PowerPoint.
9 Tips for Student Presentations
Wendy Russell lists nine critical tips for students to keep in mind when designing their presentations including: limiting the number of slides, choosing fonts carefully, and limiting the use of special effects.
A+ PowerPoint Rubric
Joan Vandervelde of UW-Stout has created a useful rubric which provides clear-cut guidelines for the evaluation of student PowerPoint presentations.
Tech Tip: Copy a PowerPoint Template Design
To copy the color scheme and formatting of an existing PowerPoint into a new presentation:
1. Open a presentation containing the design that you wish to use in your new presentation.
2. Create a new PowerPoint presentation file.
3. You will need to see both presentations at the same time. In order to do this, choose Window - Arrange All. This will show open presentations side by side on the screen.
4. To copy the color scheme, click on the title bar of the original presentation to make it active, then click on the slide whose formatting you wish to copy in the Outlines/Slides pane.
5. To apply the color scheme to your new presentation, click on the Format Painter button on the toolbar, then click on the title bar of the new presentation.
6. Next, click on the mini-version of a slide in the Outline/ Slides pane. This applies the formatting to a new slide.
7. To apply the color scheme to several slides at once, double-click on the Format Painter button, and follow the rest of steps 5 and 6 above.
*View Wendy Russell’s animated video of these steps.
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