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PowerPoint: Do No Harm by Dan Meyer who writes at blog.mrmeyer.com presented to The Oakland Teaching Fellows on 2008 April 1
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The difference between the best and worst classroom PowerPoint is vast, greater than any other classroom tools I've used. The teacher who uses it well will enjoy easier classroom management, more satisfied visual learners, richer classroom conversation, and will be, herself, a more satisfied teacher. The teacher who uses it poorly (which is to say, typically) will leave her students no better than when she found them and, in many cases, they'll be a lot duller. In other words, PowerPoint is rarely value-neutral. Let's make it great.
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PowerPoint: Do No Harm
by Dan Meyerwho writes at blog.mrmeyer.compresented to The Oakland Teaching Fellowson 2008 April 1
Do Not Ask PowerPoint To Do What It Cannot.
Rule #3:
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My Story★ Born 1982
• 25 Years Old★ Never wanted to go to UC Davis.★ Never wanted to teach.★ 4th Year Teacher★ Hobbies Include:
• Filmmaking• Writing• Graphic Design
“Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realist, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness because it's so socially repulsive. But it's pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.
Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue. It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
David Foster Wallace. Kenyon Commencement Speech. 2005.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/556514186/
Rule #2:
Do Not Confuse Visual Flash For Visual Interest.
My Story
My Story★ Born 1982
• 25 Years Old★ Never wanted to go to UC Davis.★ Never wanted to teach.★ 4th Year Teacher★ Hobbies Include:
• Filmmaking• Writing• Graphic Design
Questions Unanswered★ How do I include hyperlinks in my
presentations?★ What are good sources for clip art?★ How do I insert math notation into my
presentations?
A B
http://tinyurl.com/yv9rrx
A B
http://www.xkcd.com/388/
http://www.xkcd.com/388/
Rule #1:
Once a day for 180 days, everything matters.
Color matters.
Color matters.
Alignment: over 180 days, this also matters.
Alignment: over 180 days, this also matters.
SIZE draws the eye to important
details. Use it CONSISTENTLY
and DELIBERATELY.
Don’t USE size randomly. (This is
THE difference.)
http://tinyurl.com/2juunn
Dear Future Dan:
Kids just multiplied THE SMALLEST NUMBER ON THE BASE by the height. Not THE BASE itself.
Don’t blow this next time.
xoxo,
Present Dan
http://tinyurl.com/yv9rrx
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1. Opener a) Which duct tape is the better deal?
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How I Met Your Mother. CBS.
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