There are numerous ways to get presentations wrong. Far too often presenters give you too much or too little information on a slide, or they are simply using the slides as a teleprompter. Many people need to view this presentation found on SlideShare.
Good presentations should have the factors "stickiness" and storytelling (Hicks, 2013). You must be able to convey in your presentation that the message relates to the audience, and you want them to remember that message when you are done. Not everyone is able to relay that effectively. I think Bandler and Kiley (2017) said it best:
How often have we sat in a boring professional development, faculty meeting, or program training only to tune the speaker out for minutes at a time? We often loose interest quickly and start playing with our phone. Sometimes this can be blamed on the presenter.Typical presentations feature slides or posters crammed with text that is hard to read and digest, small images, dense tables, lengthy equations, and detailed flow diagrams. The speaker's visual material is often inadequately acknowledged, and his or her oral delivery rushed in an inaudible monotone. Speakers regularly run out of whatever time they are allotted, whether three minutes, 20 minutes, or 50 minutes.
Eminem's lyrics may describe the perfect storm of a bad presentation, but I am sure that we have all sat in on those train wrecks. We have all had to deal with presenters that made you question their credentials or career choices. I know I have secretly wanted to pull the presenter aside, or email them a link to a training like this one from Jeanne Trojan:
Seven ways to kill your presentation from Jeanne Trojan
So what can be done about it? How can we as educators ensure that we can effectively kill bad presentations? We need to start by creating effective presentations for our classroom and requiring students to prepare effective presentations. Hicks (2013) stated that "although the tendency of any digital writer creating any digital text is to begin by opening a new file in whatever program he or she intends to use, the best place to start is with pencil and paper." I know I have never thought that way. If I want to make a Powerpoint or presentation I immediately open Office or Google Slides. At this very moment I am creating this blog directly on Blogger with no plan as to what comes next.
Our text Crafting Digital Writing has numerous quotes and tips for how to map out effective presentations. It gives examples and guidelines that should be followed in education and the corporate world. I created the following trying to follow those guidelines and use information from the wealth of sites available for people to break out of the boring presenter rut.
So what can be done about it? How can we as educators ensure that we can effectively kill bad presentations? We need to start by creating effective presentations for our classroom and requiring students to prepare effective presentations. Hicks (2013) stated that "although the tendency of any digital writer creating any digital text is to begin by opening a new file in whatever program he or she intends to use, the best place to start is with pencil and paper." I know I have never thought that way. If I want to make a Powerpoint or presentation I immediately open Office or Google Slides. At this very moment I am creating this blog directly on Blogger with no plan as to what comes next.
Our text Crafting Digital Writing has numerous quotes and tips for how to map out effective presentations. It gives examples and guidelines that should be followed in education and the corporate world. I created the following trying to follow those guidelines and use information from the wealth of sites available for people to break out of the boring presenter rut.
Using all of the information available in our classroom we can have our students composing extraordinary presentations and guarantee that we have excitement in our classrooms and professional learning.Bandler, J. W., & Kiley, E. M. (2017). In the First Few Blinks of an Eye: The Basics of Engaging Presentation. IEEE Microwave Magazine, 18(2), 112-120. doi: 10.1109/MMM.2016.2636681
Desjardins, J. (2010). You Suck At PowerPoint! by @jessedee[PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/you-suck-at-powerpoint
Hicks, T. (2013). Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres. T. Antao (Ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
pmw8000 (2011, December 12)."Anyone, anyone" teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA.
Sparsh Gupta (2012, January 31). eminem lose yourself lyrics [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Un9HLDCTCs
Trojan, J. (2010). Seven ways to kill your presentation[PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/jmtcz/seven-ways-to-kill-your-presentation
I love your graphics and video clips! Additionally, I like how you connected a popular song to the topic of the post. I think using song lyrics, in lessons, is a great way to engage students. As we have so many creative and interactive tools for the development of presentations, using music is another way to make connections and keep learning from being so boring. Check out the article below for more information on positive ways to use songs in the classroom and the benefits students receive from it!
ReplyDeleteBonn, L. (October 31, 2013). Teens, song and the language or connection. Edutopia. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/teens-song-language-of-connection-lessia-bonn