The
Colin
Powell’s Address to the United Nations
Absolute
PowerPoint
Transcript of Buzz
Broadcast
“PowerPoint is one of
Microsoft's most successful products - it's used to make presentations all over
the world and in every industry sector. But are we becoming too reliant on the
software at the expense of our communication skills?”
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/buzz/stories/s808746.htm
Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts
by Ian Parker
“Before
there were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had
to dim the lights.”
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/group/powerpt.html
Are
We Wasting $250 Million per Day Due to Bad PowerPoint?
By Dave Paradi
“Too
many presenters think that just by using the PowerPoint tool, they don’t need
to properly plan their presentation. Any tool is useful only if it is used
properly. Here are four specific reasons that we don’t like most of the
presentations we see.”
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/articles/wasting_250M_bad_ppt.htm
Avoiding
PowerPointlessness.
The
New Curriculum
“…without
clear guidance PowerPoint can be misused. Even with the clearest guidance,
students still become sidetracked by its bells and whistles to the detriment of
their project's substance. But such distractions can be minimized if teachers
follow some basic principles when assigning work in PowerPoint.”
http://www.newcurriculum.com/2001/ed10-1.htm
Randall
Walds
“I,
with my aforementioned experience, could create a much more appalling
PowerPoint presentation. This presentation could make one's eyes water with
just the first 5 slides. Fortunately for you, dear reader, we will not do this.
I will just go point-by-point through how we could, if we wanted to, design the
worst PowerPoint Presentation ever.”
http://www.plasticsurgerydr.com/rpp.html
Ban It
Now! Friends Don't Let Friends Use PowerPoint
By
Thomas Stewart
“PowerPoint is very rare
at CEO conferences. Like Supreme Court justices, captains of industry like to
see a speaker think, not watch him read.”
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,9265,00.html
Giving
Effective PowerPoint Presentations
By
Susan Ward
“You should be concerned
only with one thing when presenting to an audience, be it internal or external.
That is "Has the audience come away from this with information that was
in-line with the original point of the presentation?" If people leave your
PowerPoint presentation armed with confusion and wonder, your presentation has
failed.”
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/library/biztips/bl_biztips_14.htm?terms=Powerpoint
Instructional
Considerations for Using Presentation Software
“Incorporating
instructional technology applications such as PowerPoint into a course is a
process that requires planning. The following instructional considerations will
enhance the effectiveness of your presentations.”
http://www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/FACULTY-DEVELOPMENT/FDS/Presentation/
Is
PowerPoint the devil?
Julia
Keller
“PowerPoint may be an easier, spiffier
way to present information, but is it a better way? As the software spreads into
more schools, as an increasing number of teachers employ it in their lectures
and require students to use it in their class presentations, certain questions
hover persistently just to one side of the glowing screen: Is PowerPoint
changing not only the way we do business and educate our young, but also the
way we think?”
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5004120.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
TEACHER ADVISORY: It's The Story, Stupid. Don't Let
Presentation Software Keep You From Getting Your Story
Across
By Doc Searls
“To quote the
(PowerPoint) manual, ‘To create presentations, you
write and design slides.’ Wrong. Presentations are as much about slides as
poetry is about handwriting. Again, David Ogilvy: ‘What you say is more
important than how you say it.’”
Multimedia
Design Considerations
Jack
Treuhaft, Algonquin
College of Applied Arts and Technology
”Multimedia software packages are
usually loaded with features. You can choose among severalc
hundred colors, dozens of fonts, a wide variety of color-coordinated templates,
multiple transitions, and many other dazzling options. Good design, however,
dictates that you carefully select what is needed from this cornucopia of
choices. In other words, just because its there, it doesn't mean you should use
it. So what should you consider when designing a multimedia presentation?”
http://www.algonquinc.on.ca/edtech/mmdesign.html
PowerPoint
effective, but often misused
Joyce Kasman Valenza | tech.life@school
“Can we inject any magic bullets into students'
multimedia efforts? Allow me to present some insights I have gathered over
multiple years of multimedia”
http://joycevalenza.com/powerptart.html
PowerPoint,
Not PowerPointless!
Teacher
Created Materials: Using Presentation Software in Your Classroom
“Next,
[students] spent many hours creating a PowerPoint presentation. Conversations I
overheard as students worked together went like this:
"What color
should we make the title screen?"
"Should we fly these words from the right or left?"
"What about the background music?"
"Let's add a transition here that will make the picture push off to the
left."
Each
PowerPoint project that I saw had a few things in common:
http://www.teachercreated.com/dl/sampmods/mc/
PowerPoint
Presentations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Steven
H. Kaminski
“But PowerPoint is not synonymous with presenting
or teaching, with visual aids or
even with a computer projector. An effective presenter must be familiar with,
as Aristotle put it 2500 years ago, ‘all the available means of persuasion.’ (Rhetoric, 1355b, 25)”
http://www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Handouts/powerpoint.htm
“PowerPoint is a wonderful
presentation tool that is easy-to-learn and fun to use. However, it is
important to think about how it is being used in your classroom to ensure that
your students' presentations are not "PowerPointless’….
Read on below for more ideas and thoughts to help your lessons become more
authentic, interesting, and allow your students to reach higher levels of
thinking.”
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/IT/TSC/powerpoint/pptless.htm
PowerPointless
Michael
Landrum
“The
tendency in presentations lately has been to pull out all the technological
stops and let PowerPoint carry the ball. Mundane Humanity has receded further
and further into the dark background.”
http://www.coachmike.com/TPS32.html
Office
of Arts & Sciences Information Services,
“PowerPoint is merely a
tool. The presentation’s author determines how effective or ineffective
the presentation is. Following some basic strategies can greatly improve your
presentation -- and prevent your show from being ‘PowerPointless’.”
http://oasis.unc.edu/documentation/oasisdoc/ppointless.htm
Scoring
Power Points
By
Jamie McKenzie
“Multimedia
presentations may be compelling and persuasive. Or they may be glib and
disappointing. In the worst case, students will devote more attention to
special effects than they will spend on the issues being studied. Powerpointing can become a goal in itself - an unfortunate
example of technology being done for technology's own sake. In the best case,
the presentation enhances and communicates a larger and deeper body of work and
thought.”
http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html
Multimedia
Mania 2001 Rubric
http://www.cvschools.org/tech/pelt/pp/Multimedia%20Rubric.htm
Scoring
Guide for Student Products
http://goal.ncrel.org/spsg/GetProd.asp
Updated by H. Erstad on April 8, 2003