{"id":2759,"date":"2011-08-26T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:28:46","slug":"teaching-tip-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/teaching-tip-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Tip: Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">Many teachers already use presentations through programs  such as PowerPoint and Keynote to aid in classroom instruction. Consider  ways that presentations might be used more effectively. A general rule of thumb is that the the presentation (slides) should not speak for the presenter.  The slides should supplement and highlight main points. Never put an  entire lecture on PowerPoint slides and read from them. Also, use large font and minimal bullet points. A great use of slides is to introduce images that depict your presentation highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Keep  this in mind, if someone could look at a print-out of the slides and  learn everything that is discussed in the lecture, PowerPoint was not  used effectively. You are the teacher &#8211; your lectures and classes should  not be able to be replaced by sheets of notes!<\/p>\n<p>A favorite  classroom project of many teachers is having students create  presentations using software programs for research projects. These  same guidelines should be passed on to students when they  use slideshow presentations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From Professional Learning Board\u2019s online continuing education course for teachers: <a href=\"..\/..\/course\/view.php?id=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introduction to Technology for Teachers<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  Many teachers already use presentations through programs  such as PowerPoint and Keynote to aid in classroom instruction. Consider  ways that presentations might be used more effectively. A general rule of thumb is that the the presentation (slides) should not speak for the presenter.  The slides should supplement and highlight main [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[208,209,207,1614,210,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24839,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/24839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}