Event Title
Location
Hart 115
Start Time
18-8-2011 11:20 AM
End Time
18-8-2011 12:00 PM
Description
For an entire generation, integrating technology into the classroom has very often meant using PowerPoint to enhance—and even to organize—lectures. More advanced integration of technology often means teaching students to prepare their own PowerPoint presentations.
Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan became acquainted with PowerPoint when working as an in-house software trainer as the application was first coming to market. As a new professor in the ensuing years, he used many of PowerPoint’s bells and whistles—sometimes literally—in his own teaching and helped both middle-school and college students to use the software.
It is from this deep involvement with PowerPoint that he eventually came to see the software as a potential impediment to teaching and learning. In his speaking-intensive courses, he now uses Edward Tufte’s critique of PowerPoint to prepare students to employ the software judiciously. As Tufte argues, some of the biggest problems with PowerPoint arise when it is used AS INTENDED.
Eric LePage has delivered a “How to Avoid 'Death by PowerPoint’” seminar to Bridgewater Faculty, staff, and students over the last four years. This session was designed to educate PowerPoint creators in slideshow design strategies which reduce an overreliance on text and bullets and encourage more focus on the presenter and better engagement of the audience.
This session will begin with an overview of Tufte’s critique, followed by a discussion of how to use this to improve teaching and professional presentations. The session will conclude with a discussion of how to engage students in critical thinking about their own presentation styles.
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Hart 115
For an entire generation, integrating technology into the classroom has very often meant using PowerPoint to enhance—and even to organize—lectures. More advanced integration of technology often means teaching students to prepare their own PowerPoint presentations.
Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan became acquainted with PowerPoint when working as an in-house software trainer as the application was first coming to market. As a new professor in the ensuing years, he used many of PowerPoint’s bells and whistles—sometimes literally—in his own teaching and helped both middle-school and college students to use the software.
It is from this deep involvement with PowerPoint that he eventually came to see the software as a potential impediment to teaching and learning. In his speaking-intensive courses, he now uses Edward Tufte’s critique of PowerPoint to prepare students to employ the software judiciously. As Tufte argues, some of the biggest problems with PowerPoint arise when it is used AS INTENDED.
Eric LePage has delivered a “How to Avoid 'Death by PowerPoint’” seminar to Bridgewater Faculty, staff, and students over the last four years. This session was designed to educate PowerPoint creators in slideshow design strategies which reduce an overreliance on text and bullets and encourage more focus on the presenter and better engagement of the audience.
This session will begin with an overview of Tufte’s critique, followed by a discussion of how to use this to improve teaching and professional presentations. The session will conclude with a discussion of how to engage students in critical thinking about their own presentation styles.
Additional Links: