11-Presentations

(1) Slide Shows - Uses & Abuses

• Assignment - Presentation software provides the opportunity to display text and graphics in a slide show fashion.  After reading about the educational uses and abuses of presentation software and discussing these issues in class, summarize how presentations should be constructed and delivered to maximize learning and minimize abuse. 

(2) Adapting a Slide Show

• Assignment - Use an advanced search to locate and download one or more PowerPoint presentations or Google Slide Shows (to search for a public Google Slides presentation: enter

  • • • Filetype:  ppt or pptx for Powerpoint

      • site:docs.google.com/presentation For Google Slides

        • • site:docs.google.com/spreadsheets  For Google Spreadsheets

          • site:docs.google.com/drawings  For Google Drawings

          • site:docs.google.com/forms  For Google Forms, quizzes

          • site:docs.google.com/docs  For Google Docs

• Include the URL of the location from which you obtained them and summarize the slide show and where in your curriculum you will use it. Make adaptations to the file and attach it. 

• • (a) Link to original files

  • (b) Embed modified  Google slide show

(3) Creating a Slide Show

• Videos - Multiple videos on creating slide shows

  1. 1. 1. • Animating Diagrams in Google Slides [5:08]

           • Mystery Container - Siphons - Making a movie from Google Slides [14:53]

           • Creating an Image Map [3:36]

           • Creating an Image Map- II - [5:02]

           • Navigation Buttons [4:02]

           • Getting to know your students - Collaborative Presentation [6:12]   

           • Combining slides from different slide shows [1:41]

           • Creating an Escape Room [5:26]

           • Creating a Nearpod lesson from Google Slides [1:21]

           • Creating a PearDeck Lesson from Google Slides [1:46]

• Assignment - Develop and post a slideshow, to teach a lesson in your subject area, keeping in mind the principles you have outlined above and be logically structured, instructionally sound, and, easy to navigate.  Your presentation should include numerous graphics and be at least 10 slides in length.   Sample slideshows

(4) Make your presentations interactive 

• Video - Introduction to PearDeck [7:07]

• Video -  Transforming a slide show with Pear Deck into an interactive experience [4:18]

• Video - Importing slideshows to Nearpod [1:21]

• Assignment - Use PearDeck or Nearpod to make your slide show interactive presentation.  You may covert a Google Slides slideshow such as this one on famous photographs into a  PearDeck or Nearpod show.

(5) Collaborative Presentations

• Assignment - Contribute to two (2) of the following collaborative online presentations, and post a copy of the slideshow, indicating your contributions.

  • • • 1. 1. Where in the World?  

           2. Powers of Ten - Orders of Magnitude in the Universe

           3. Organizational Hierarchy - biology

(6) Concept Mapping 

• • Video - Creating Concept Maps with Coggle [3:15]

  • Assignment - Create a logical and graphic-enhanced  concept map related to the curriculum you teach using a collaborative concept mapping tool such as Coggle or Diagrams.net.