Day+2

=What Makes a Good Presentation: How to Better Use Power Point and Promethean Flip Charts=

Overview:

 * Presentation on Principles of E-Learning
 * Search Promethean planet and Slide share for examples of good and bad presentations
 * Upload current Power Points to Google Docs in order to be peer evaluated
 * Create a Promethean Flip chart or a Power Point presentation based on Multimedia Principles

Prerequisites:

 * Create a login for both Promethean Planet and Slideshare
 * Come to PD with power points or flip charts that you have used in class

Objectives:

 * 1) Evaluate presentation material for consistencies with multimedia principles
 * 2) Create presentation materials that are in accordance with multimedia principles
 * 3) Summarize most common flaws with student presentations and create materials to address these short comings

Content:
Teachers have relied heavily on power point presentations to assist lectures ever since the program was introduced by Microsoft in the 90s. With the amount of usage that this technology receives, one would assume that teachers make quality power point presentations a significant part of their lessons. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and teachers have so misused the technology that students-who have been raised on power points-are incapable of making quality informative presentations themselves. Today's professional development will focus on getting teachers to think critically about what does or does not make it onto a power point slide. Teachers will explore sites that offer downloadable presentations in order to evaluate which components make a good presentation versus those that derail presentations. Teachers will also have a chance to look at their own power points, and those of their peers using the skills they learned previously with Google Docs. By the end of this session, teachers should be confident in their abilities to create and deliver effective presentations.

Learning Activities:

 * 1) Teachers will have a briefing at the beginning of the day lead by the AP coordinator for the county to discuss the importance of presenting information to students. Teachers will watch the following video and discuss common practices that they believe detracts from the usefulness of a powerpoint. media type="youtube" key="_JU48-FVqvQ" height="360" width="480"
 * 2) Teachers will be broken into groups based on content area
 * 3) Facilitators in each group will use a presentation to demonstrate the importance of maintaining certain multimedia principles in presentations.
 * 4) Based on these principles, teachers will search Slideshare.net and Promethean Planet to identify one good and one poor presentation.
 * 5) Teachers will share their ideas with the class and discuss ways of making their own presentations better.
 * 6) Teachers will then designate one presentation that they have to be uploaded to Google Docs so that it can be shared with the other teachers in the group. Teachers will proceed to evaluate their own presentation as well as that of a colleague's. Here is an example of a powerpoint that I have used that deals with Psychology. Use the discussion thread at the top of the page to identify positive and negative components of this PPT. [[file:15_learn_classcondpt_i.ppt]]
 * 7) If a teacher finds any issues with their presentation, they will edit it in Google Docs in order to make it comply with the principles discussed.
 * 8) Teachers will share the kinds of issues that they have experienced keeping presentations within the principles described.
 * 9) The facilitator will then lead the group in a discussion of how teachers can help students learn what makes a good presentation.
 * 10) Finally, in small groups, teachers will create a lesson plan to help students learn how to create good presentations, and share with the group.

Resources:
Stop! You're killing me with that powerpoint. 10 Powerpoint tips for preparing a professional presentation

Prerequisites for Day 3:
Don't forget to click here for the prerequisite materials and activities to complete before the next day of professional development training.

Session Evaluation:
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