Relative Advantage Of Interactive Presentations
There are many relative advantages to use a presentation tool such as PowerPoint or Google presentations when teaching in your own classroom. One reason to continue using presentations in your classroom is to maintain consistency. If you layout what you want to talk about, then the presentation reminds you of your key points. This way students receive the same information from period to period. Another reason to provide computerized presentations, is for absent students. If you post your presentation on your school website, then all absent students can assess the information from home. In fact, all students can access the information from home if they need to look something up that they forgot! A third reason is to save the instructor a ton of time in the long run. Although it is a lot of work to initially create a presentation, once it is done, simple changes can be made easily. Now the presentation is ready to go for next year. Finally, presentation software has advanced and it has become more easy to make such presentations more interactive. You can include animation, embed videos, include links, polls, quizzes and games within the presentation.Ironically, here is a bullet point listing of the key points within the video I completely agree with!!
A good interactive presentation is simply a guideline for the instructor to present a lesson. Presentations that one just reads to the audience are not effective and will lose the interest of the audience. Here is a list of somethings to do and some things to avoid when creating a presentation for your classroom:
A good interactive presentation is simply a guideline for the instructor to present a lesson. Presentations that one just reads to the audience are not effective and will lose the interest of the audience. Here is a list of somethings to do and some things to avoid when creating a presentation for your classroom:
- Don't type everything you plan to say in the PP
- Make sure you check spelling!!
- Use bullet points only when appropriate
- Use good color schemes
- Keep the number of slides appropriate for the content
- Include graphs but keep the amount of info on each graph limited
- Use animation only when appropriate
- Use an interesting but easy to read font
Interactive Presentation Embedded Using Google Docs
Below you will find the Interactive Slide Presentation. Originally this was made using Microsoft PowerPoint. It however did not embed well. After trying Slideshare, Scribd and a downloadable link idea, I decided to try Google Docs.
Now the presentation has been uploaded into a Google Doc Presentation. After many formatting fixes, the embedding from Google Docs functions much better. It allows the viewer to view the presentation as it was originally designed, one slide at a time, that fits into the embedded location and with the animated effects. Enjoy...
Now the presentation has been uploaded into a Google Doc Presentation. After many formatting fixes, the embedding from Google Docs functions much better. It allows the viewer to view the presentation as it was originally designed, one slide at a time, that fits into the embedded location and with the animated effects. Enjoy...