Another take on powerpoint boredom but this time specially adapted for teachers! Because so many of them do not know how to use PowerPoint well and need some inspiration. Musical version also available on the you.

5. can be highly boring for your students and should only be used by authorised PowerPoint Teachers

6. Warning

7. PowerPoint

8. It’s my duty to warn you

9. How to avoid

10. a Slow Death by PowerPoint

11. (No students were harmed during the making of this presentation)

12. The Top Cardinal Sins

13. Cardinal Sin 1

14. The Script

15. The problem is that most people speak at

16. 150 WPM

17. Yet most people read at

18. 250 WPM

21. Cardinal Sin 2

22. Dodging Bullets

23. Example

25. Not exactly exciting is it?

26. To a student this is a signal to

28. Followed with a sprinkling of these

30. And time to catch up on

33. Ditch the bullet points!

34. Cardinal Sin 3

35. Spell Checks

37. Cardinal Sin 4

38. People who love data

39. Think that more is better ?

40. More Data

41. Effectiveness

42. Lets demonstrate this

43. By adding more!

46. In some desperate attempt

47. To convince you of their point

48. Cardinal Sin 5

50. Cardinal Sin 6

51. Animation

52. Can be good

53. For visual learners

54. Animation Can be effective But use too much And you end up with your students Going WOW! This is just so cool And not actually Taking Any notice Of what You are trying to say

55. And your PowerPoint becomes this

56. Animation Blah Boring Like this one? WOW! Look at me Woo hoo Wheee Yawn Fidget Blah Blah Blah

57. More Animation

58. Less Effect

59. So how do you get away from mindless text and bullets?

61. Example

62. We’ve all heard the proverb

63. A picture is

64. words

65. Taken from an example of a real GCSE Business lesson

67. Doesn’t it make you feel like this?

69. Let’s break it down

70. Technological Forces

71. Manufacturing products only when ordered (JIT)

72. I n c r e a s e s

73. Output & production

74. Productivity

75. Demand for skilled workers

76. Skills education for workforce

77. Technology costs

78. Quality

79. D e c r e a ses

80. Costs and storage space

81. Production downtime storage space

82. Jobs (redundancies) storage space

83. Its all there except

84. You nor the students read it!

86. computer Sometimes the best slides have no text at all

87. Have you got it yet?

88. Less is more

89. Communication involves emotions

90. If you can’t explain it short and simple

91. Then you don’t understand it

92. This is bad communication

94. This is good communication

95. Only use images that match your message

96. … and evoke emotion

97. Too much text & data is

99. Try to avoid clipart!

100. L i m i t

102. Less text and data is

103. G d

104. Make only ONE point per slide

105. Dodge the bullets

106. Don’t use bad colour schemes

107. Check your spelling

108. Use pictures

110. Try

111. Try

118. Jacqueline Hicks © 2010 Lead Teacher of ICT [email_address]