This week I have been playing around with a couple different applications that allow users to create effective and interesting presentations. Similar to PowerPoint, these programs create a slide-show that you can personalize and use for many different purposes. I tried to use the concept of Beyond Bullet Point or BBP for this sample lesson. Basically, the developers of BBP explain that both the positive side and downfall of PowerPoint presentations is that they are easy to create. That being said, they aren't always made effectively. Individuals learn in many different ways but there are some basic concepts to understand before giving a presentations. Learning is multi-faceted and in order to be effective, the presenter must strike the perfect balance between simple, easy to understand slides, and information overload. The slides need to use the space, time, and images to convey important points.
Too often in classes that I have taken a teacher has created presentation to guide a lecture that was only bullet points, and then simply read us these slides. While being un-creative, these types of presentations are insulting to one's audience. If learning were as simple as reading, we wouldn't need to attend a lecture on it. Effective presentations waste nothing - they use speech, text, and images to the best of each of their abilities. Here is a look at a sample presentation that I have created as an introduction to the US Supreme Court.
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