Comments on: Can your presentation stand on its own?

By: Online Degrees

Online Degrees — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:22:12 +0000

Good advice. We often advise our students to take a step back and understand what they are getting into. This article reinforces that concept with some practical advice.

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Online MBA — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:01:03 +0000

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By: norman rockwell trivia

norman rockwell trivia — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:39:51 +0000

Slideshare sometimes works with widgets, but sometimes not.

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normal rockwell trivia — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:38:34 +0000

Slideshare is definitely the way to go.

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Online State University — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:09:11 +0000

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By: Online Teaching

Online Teaching — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:55:02 +0000

Thanks, I like this post it is very good and informative. I am sure that this post will be very helpful

By: Laura MacDonald

Laura MacDonald — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:10:10 +0000

Hi Steve
I had this ahah! some time ago when preparing for a face to face presentation. I was asked to distribute powerpoint handouts of my presentation and I choose not to share my presentation, not because I don’t like to share, but because I had designed the powerpoint to support my face to face presentation, not to stand alone.
There is also the whole synchronous online training. In synchronous online training the presentation slides are designed to support your instruction, but because the audience can’t see your face, you design many more slides because otherwise the audience is staring at the same slide for too long.So as far as I’m concerned there is the face to face presentation slides, stand alone presentation slides and online teaching slides.

By: Teach42 · Being there: A presentation that can really stand on its own

Teach42 · Being there: A presentation that can really stand on its own — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:55:30 +0000

[...] blogged a little bit about whether PowerPoints should be able to stand on their own, whether they are just there to support the presenter (and to be honest, the comments from everyone [...]

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:35:00 +0000

“Mute” PowerPoints have their place in education. Like everything we do in education, the objectives determine what our students need to learn. The other items just support the ideas necessary to navigate our students to complete the task. “Mute” PowerPoints, or PowerPoints without the presenter are often hard to understand when audio of what is being presented is missing. In response to some of the other posts, I believe that stand-alone PowerPoints are just as important as mute PowerPoints, for the simple reason of absent students. Students who are absent during a presentation often miss out on some important information. Why not have that information readily available for those students who are not able to attend school that day? Why not PowerPoint presentation available for those days that you as the teacher are absent? Imagine the possibilities and tasks that could be completed when students and teachers are absent. Classroom instruction could continue even with a substitute, as if you were there!!

By: prowisconsinonline.info » Blog Archive » MSU almost upsets Wisconsin

prowisconsinonline.info » Blog Archive » MSU almost upsets Wisconsin — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:39:41 +0000

[...] In response to Steve Dembos post on teach42 can your presentation stand on its own?, and a recent announcement that Google will soon unveil a powerpoint clone, I thought it might be relevant to look into the research on using powerpoint. [...]

By: Andrew Pass

Andrew Pass — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:09:07 +0000

Steve, I’m not sure that we should only approach this question from the perspective of the quality of the presentation, for the audience, itself. The process of creating a power point presenation teaches students to think, just as the process of writing teaches students to think.

Since, our students are not professional presenters, I don’t even have much of a problem if they read from a power point that they’ve create, assuming that the purpose of the activity is to convey a message. If the purpose of the activity is to develop presentation skills, then I do have a problem.

The most important question is “What’s the objective of the activity?”

By: Dale Basler

Dale Basler — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:16:38 +0000

Is the art of creating a ‘mute’ PowerPoint worth teaching?

Yes. But don’t call it a presentation. Its a screencast.

Presentations can be done (gulp) without PPT.

By: Dale Basler

Dale Basler — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:08:27 +0000

How strange… I just wrote something similar

Recent research on cognitive load theory suggests that PowerPoint is doing more damage than good…[
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By: Nancy Sharoff

Nancy Sharoff — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:41:14 +0000

Stick w/ the PowerPoints. They are there to visually support what you are sharing in the webinar. HOWEVER… (and that’s a BIG ‘however’) having attended a number of the webinars I find myself frantically either jotting or typing the information so that I can refer to it at a later point in time. Having access to the PowerPoint slides in the future is useless unless there’s the content to go w/ them. Being a visual rather than auditory learner I’m also not that keen on having a screencast w/ audio. I would prefer a document that has some of the slides w/ the related step-by-step instructions (or urls to the websites) that I can keep on my computer or print out and refer to at a later point in time.

PowerPoint was never meant to replace the presenter (and ESPECIALLY not you Steve! LOL), but considering the wealth of information shared during these sessions it would be beneficial to arrive at a solution for those who were able to attend the webinar, but couldn’t jot/type fast enough.

Thanks….and knowing you, you’ll have the remedy within the hour!