Why PowerPoint?

Five formats can be used: Text Audio Video Graphic Animation

PowerPoint Design Basics

1. Justify Text Appropriately/Do not stack text

This is hard for students to read:

Plant cells have

chloro-plasts

This is easier for students to read: Plant cells have chloroplasts

Don’t do this…

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2. Limit Type Styles and capitalization

Arial-Good

Tahoma-GoodTimes New Roman-not as good

Edwardian-avoid

Gigi-c’mon…

•Use sans serif fonts (no feet)•ALL CAPS CREATES A LACK OF CONTRAST•Limit the number of fonts used

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3. Standardize use of color

•Choose a color scheme and stick with it•Choose background colors that are not distracting•Avoid colors that lack contrast to your background•Avoid colors that clash with your background

Probably not a good idea...

Probably not a good idea…

Probably not a good idea…

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4. Enhance text with Graphics, Animation, and Sound

•Keys into students with different learning styles

PowerPoint Design Basics

5. Eliminate Superfluous Graphics, Animation, and Sound

This is superfluous...

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6. Keep text lines short

•Be brief•No need for all information•Augment your speech

If you write too much information on your slide, students will not read it all. And, if they do try to read every single little word you put up, they will not hear a word that you say—even if it’s the most important thing that they will ever hear. For example, informing them that they won a million dollars in the lottery…

PowerPoint Design Basics

7. Limit the focus

Which is easier?

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•7±2 rule of STM (chunking) when possible

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8. Use lists•Cell Wall •Chloroplasts •Endoplasmic Reticulum •Golgi Apparatus •Microfilaments •Microtubules •Mitochondria •Nucleus •Peroxisomes •Plasmodesmata •Plasma Membrane •Ribosomes •Vacuole

Cell Wall, Chloroplasts, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, Microfilaments, Microtubules, Mitochondria, Nucleus, Peroxisomes, Plasmodesmata, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Vacuole

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9. Placement matters

•Location on the screen determines importance•Don’t overlap your background

Homework is 2 questions due in 2 days

Test tomorrow

Create Presentation

Create a small presentation to be used in a lesson on: Cell Structures

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/plant_cell.html