Elements for an Effective PowerPoint Slide (Reflection 5)

 

A presentation means a process that involves presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. A presentation generally involves one speaker or presenter who transmits information’s to a large number of audiences. Basically, presentation is what performed by teachers in their daily lives, meaning they actually deliver knowledge or information during the teaching and learning process in a classroom with a large number of learners by using power point slides more often than textbooks now. We had learned about how a teacher should come up with their own slides and what are the element involved for an effective powerpoint slides for teachers during my Pedagogy class. These are the few strategies that was thought to us by Madam Ng regarding how to prepare an effective power point slides:

1) Avoid using colours that is too bright or flashy, meaning try to keep the slides simple by using  white colour as the background.

2) The slides should be interactive, meanings do not add in too much of information’s that might show you as if you are reading. If can, use keywords or points and try explaining.

3) Select proper templates. Try to bold certain information’s if required, adjust the size of the information’s so that learners are able to have a clear picture of the message presented in the slides.

4) Avoid adding too much of information’s or details into one slides, meaning try to use extra spacing between the details and also try to use more slides to deliver information’s in order to help the learners to understand the message in a easy manner.

5) Try using creative strategy by adding pictures into the slides as well as with the title and ask the learners about their opinion before producing the actual meaning or definition to the learners, by doing so it enables them to have a better understanding.

6) Try to relate the lesson with examples so that it allows the learners to understand the message even clearer by relating the information’s with the examples provided.

7) Try using real life clip arts rather than cartoon clip arts because it reflects the professionalism of the teacher.