Power Point 3

I am of the opinion that most power point presentations are rather poor in quality. They are usually simply broken up paragraphs spread across a lot of pages. Most that I have seen were rather uninformative. They are also mostly distracting, as most of the text comes in in a rather confusing roller coaster-like fashion, covering the entire surface of the page before coming to rest. I would probably get rid of all the animation things, apart from maybe fade in, and put real sentences in the slides, rather than short crippled phrases. Power Points, in a class, are or can be very useful. If I were to use Power Point, then I would make it simple. I would make simple slides, plain color, and put two or three sentences on each. These sentences would serve as note taking material, but at the same time they would be the foundations of more in depth explanations of those particular idea or fact. If there were a picture that would help explain or clear up that sentence or idea, it would probably come at the end as a pop up on top of the text, just as a visual link to some fact or idea. The Power Point would most likely serve simply as a way of writing up the notes before class. Most of the material would probably be oral, as opposed to an endless hour of writing and reading. If PP were not a viable option, I might instead make the students worksheets which would basically be ready made notes, except for the fact that there would be keywords missing throughout the text. By leaving out keywords, the class would be forced to pay attention, so as to get the missing information. It would be a lot easier on the students than having them write everything down as we go.