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PowerPoint… PowerPoint… Everywhere… Department of Educational Multimedia, Faculty of Education, UTM Kursus Pembelajaran Aktif Menerusi Microsoft PowerPoint

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CTL Dr. Jamalludin Harun Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) FP PM Dr. Zaidatun Tasir Jabatan Multimedia Pendidikan Fakulti Pendidikan, UTM FP Pn. Norasyikin Mohd Zaid Jabatan Multimedia Pendidikan Fakulti Pendidikan, UTM FASILITATOR… 2

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Why Powerpoint…. Why Powerpoint is more widely used in college classrooms?? 3

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Why Powerpoint…. Why Powerpoint is more widely used in college classrooms?? it's easy to use presentation technologies 4

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Why Powerpoint…. Why Powerpoint is more widely used in college classrooms?? easy for educators to update , saving time and energy. 5

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Why Powerpoint…. Why Powerpoint is more widely used in college classrooms?? it's neat and clean, and it allows for “portability” of materials. 6

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Why Powerpoint…. Why Powerpoint is more widely used in college classrooms?? Educators can take slides from one lecture, update them, include them in another lecture, and share them. 7

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Why Powerpoint…. Why Powerpoint is more widely used in college classrooms?? Provides a platform for incorporating a variety of different kinds of multimedia file-types. 8

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Powerpoint Helps to…. Visualize ideas 9

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Powerpoint Helps to…. Create key points 10

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Powerpoint Helps to…. Impress 11

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Traditional use in an educational setting: “eye candy” visuals to accompany an oral presentation 12

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Traditional use in an educational setting: gives an outline which can be provided to students outside the classroom setting 13

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Advantages students can keep the big picture in view. Note taking can be more meaningful 14

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Disdvantages still a one-way street for communication. If an outline "says it all", how much is being said? 15

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Common and convenient for instructor, but a common target for student complaints …. 16

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Instructor goes too fast student complaints…. 17

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Slides too packed with information student complaints…. 18

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Instructor just reads slides / boring ! student complaints…. 19

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Too passive for students student complaints…. 20

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. PowerPoint, when used incorrectly, can encourage student (and instructor) passivity by discouraging interaction between them. 21

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. Instructors often overload slides with information , forcing them to move through the material too quickly while overwhelming students with details. 22

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Powerpoint Everywhere…. This can sometimes discourage students and lead them to stop listening to the lecture altogether . 23

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Creating (un) Engaging Content… This slide is an example of what we have come to typically expect from a PowerPoint presentation. There is a lot of text (small text) that conveys a lot of information. Plus we’ve got bullets. Presenters read line-by-line exactly what is on the slide Students work furiously to copy the slide verbatim into their notes (or…pen drive). It becomes the 21st century equivalent of the overhead projector. What’s going on for students cognitively while the presenter reads the notes and they copy? 24

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25 ZZZZZZ…..

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PowerPoint – Reviled? “I generally believe that PowerPoint is the spawn of Satan. It breeds passivity in the students and it disconnects the speaker from the audience.” John D. Arras, Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy at the University of Virginia 27

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PowerPoint – Reviled? “His knowledge on that topic is only PowerPoint deep .” MAJ (JS) 28

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PowerPoint – Reviled? “It's like a plastic banana… looks good but provides no nutritional value or sustenance.” O-5, National Capital Region 29

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PowerPoint – Reviled? “The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster . It should be ditched.” John Sweller, University of NSW 30

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PowerPoint is Evil… PowerPoint Is Evil (Power Corrupts, PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely). By Edward Tufte. Wired Magazine, Issue 11.09, September 2003 PowerPoint Makes You Dumb By Clive Thompson. The New York Times Magazine, December 2003. PowerPointitis: Glitz Over Content By Giancarlo Livraghi. Visionarymarketing.com Article. 31

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PowerPoint is Just a Tool 32

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PowerPoint is Just a Tool However, many would agree that PowerPoint is just a tool that can be used wisely or poorly. It will not, in and of itself, improve student learning. 33

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PowerPoint is Just a Tool It's the way that educators use PowerPoint that can encourage student learning. 34

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Quick Write… What would you most like to improve about your teaching presentations ? What do you hope to get out of this workshop ? 35

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PowerPoint is Just a Tool One strategy is to utilize features to support active learning in the classroom to avoid student passivity. 36

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PowerPoint is Just a Tool By strategically employing it to create opportunities for active learning, educators can capitalize on PowerPoint's strength as a presentation platform to engage students in the learning process. 37

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PowerPoint for Active Learning What is “active learning” 38

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PowerPoint for Active Learning techniques which engage the learner, promote activity not passivity 39

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PowerPoint for Active Learning can be used in class and outside of class we use them all the time in lectures “Are there any questions?” 40

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PowerPoint for Active Learning Workshop… This workshop is designed to help you capitalize on those aspects of electronic presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint) that lend themselves best to engaging students' interests . This workshop also is specifically designed to help you create a great and effective teaching presentation. 41

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PowerPoint for Active Learning Workshop… This workshop also will help you to: design and deliver visual aids that complement and reinforce your message. use variety of active learning strategies that you can use to help students learn more from your lectures. create effective handouts : using Powerpoint to guide study and encourage active preparation. 42

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Conclusion…. Have questions? 43