Power Point For Medical Professionals

Power Point for Medical Teaching Dr.T.V.Rao MD

History of Power Point

• Microsoft Office PowerPoint was originally developed by Bob Gaskins and software developer Dennis Austin under the name Presenter for Forethought. Microsoft Corporation purchased Forethought and its PowerPoint software product for $14 million on July 31, 1987. In 1990 the first Windows versions were produced for Windows 3.0. Since 1990, PowerPoint has been included in Microsoft Office suite of applications -- except for the Basic Editions of the suite.

PowerPoint Presentations: should create Design, Content & Delivery

Important part in Power Point is Content • The most important part of any presentation is the content, not the graphical appeal. That is why you should develop your presentation with the content first, before deciding on the look (colours, graphics, etc.)

Learn the Basics with interaction with other Friends who are familiar • For the presentation, just make changes to the default slides that PowerPoint gave us with the AutoContent Wizard. In the beginning learn to be familiar with • How to change the titles of slides • How to change fonts and font sizes • How to add a bulleted list • How to delete slides • How to add a new slide

Microsoft Power Point soft ware makes matter simple

Power Point view on Screen

Menu Bar • Menu Bar As well as the standard menu option for things like opening files, saving your work, creating new presentations, cut, copy and paste, this is where all the PowerPoint tools can be found. You'll meet lots of these menu options as we go along.

Outlines • Outlines This shows you an Outline of your presentation. The headings next to the numbers are taken from the title of a particular slide. Change the title and you change the heading in the Outline view. There's also a bullet list of other text on your slide. The Outline is so that you can quickly see what an individual slide is all about.

Create you own Notes in the botom Need not go to Text Books often

A Right click on any indicated will change the face of presentation

Openoffice.org Impress is free soft ware when you work with free operating systems Can be downloaded from net Proving to be highly efficient system

CREATING BETTER

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS

… A good presentation needs

• Acceptable Design • Engaging Content

• Positive Delivery

YOUR AUDIENCE IS ALIVE… DO NOT BORE THEM !

DO NOT BLEND YOURSELF INTO THE MESSAGE!

Audience are Live Make your presentation acceptable

SYMBOLS ARE COMPELLING! DATA IS NOT!

USE VISUAL TOOLS!

Symbols create Identity - Hitler

NOT THIS! As is you in Next Slide

Make Matters Easy • One Idea at a Time Makes the learning easy

Complex Pictures creates confusion

USE CAPTIVATING IMAGES…

NO CLIP ART OR ARROWS!

Practice, Practice, Practice…

PRACTICE!

PRESENT YOUR TOPIC WITH…

PASSION!

REMEMBER THE COGNATIVE LOAD THEORY…

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Create an Impact with Pictures Uncommon pictures do have an impact

Tuberculosis not only infects poor but socially prominent people

Such pictures cannot be replaced by any media

Cannot be shown better than this by any teaching Medium

Better in Microteaching

To Understand Better

A Student is new to your Ideas Too many approaches yield Negative results

Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentation Big

Progressive

Consistent Clear

Simple Summary

Make it Big (Text) •

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• This is Arial 24

• This is Arial 32

• This is Arial 36

• This is Arial 44

Make it Big (Text) •

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This is Arial 18

• This is Arial 24

Too Small

• This is Arial 32

• This is Arial 36

–This is Arial 44 • Looks bold and impressive

Make It Big (How to Estimate) • Look at it from 2 metres away 2m

Animations take away the Audience from you – Blank the Study • Just press the B key on the keyboard and the image is replaced with a black image. Press the B key again and the image is restored. If you want to use a white image instead of a black image, press the W key each time.

Make matters Simpl e

Make it Simple Do not complicate • • • •

Keep It Simple (Text) Too many colours Too Many Fonts and Styles The 6 x 7 rule

– No more than 6 lines per slide – No more than 7 words per line – Font size 36 accommodate 6 – 7 lines

Keep It Simple (Text) Instructional Technology: A complex integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems in Too detailed ! situations in which learning is purposive and controlled (HMRS 5th ed.)

Keep It Simple (Text) Instructional Technology: A process involving people, procedures & tools for solutions Much Simpler to problems in learning

• Common Problem:

Too much writing

& writing Too small • It was one of those summery days when the air is heavy and warm and nobody wants to do very much. Jonathan and Robbit were resting on top of one of Moley's hummocks, relaxing and watching the rest of the world go by. Jonathan could feel the sun's warmth through his shell and it was making him feel comfortable and drowsy. He wriggled contentedly. Last night, before he'd gone to bed, Jonathan had taken off his shell and given it a special polish, and this morning it gleamed in the sunlight. Beside him on the soft warm molehill, Robbit lay on his back, his paws behind his head, gazing up at the clear blue sky, thinking about things in his own rabbity way. • "Why do nettles have stings?" He asked suddenly • Jonathan had just begun to doze off, and woke with a start • "Why do nettles have what?" He asked, not quite awake.

Impressing audience with Your technological Ideas is Hazardous

Media Rich Distorts Ideas

You Can write pictures while teaching

Draw on the screen during a presentation • Press the Ctrl-P key combination to display a pen on the screen. Then, using the left mouse button, draw on the slide as you wish. To erase what you have drawn, press the E key. To hide pen, press the A key or the Ctrl-H key combination.

Explain complex theory with diagrams

Keep It Simple (Transition) • This transition is annoying, not enhancing

• "Appear" and "Disappear" are better

Keep Simple Animations Animation distract the students away from Teacher

Make It Clear (Fonts) • • • • • •

Serif fonts are difficult to read on screen Sanserif fonts are clearer Italics are difficult to read on screen Normal or bold fonts are clearer Underlines may signify hyperlinks Instead, use colours to emphasise

Common Mistake: • People tend to put every word they are going to say on their PowerPoint slides. Although this eliminates the need to memorise your talk, ultimately this makes your slides crowded, wordy, and boring. You will lose your audience's attention before you even reach the bottom of your.... SLIDE

Pros of Power Point Teaching • PowerPoint is easy for Teachers to update, saving them time and energy. It's neat and clean, and it allows for "portability" of materials.

Updating and Sharing • Teachers can take slides from one lecture, update them, include them in another lecture,

Share them with colleagues or students ?

Pros …… • It also provides a platform for incorporating a variety of different kinds of multi-media file-types: images, video, audio, and animations.

Cons in power point Teaching • There are also drawbacks to using PowerPoint as a teaching tool. PowerPoint, when used incorrectly, can encourage student (and teacher) passivity by discouraging interaction between them.

Cons … • Teachers often overload slides with information, forcing them to move through the material too quickly while overwhelming students with details. This can sometimes discourage students and lead them to stop listening to the lecture altogether

We can create Power points on Mobiles / PDA’s

In Summary • • • • •

Big Simple Clear Progressive Consistent

Some Final Words • Communication is the key

• Text to support the communication • Pictures to simplify complex concepts • Animations for complex relationships

• Visuals to support, not to distract • Sounds only when absolutely necessary

Final Tip • W for White, B for Black. • Black and white is the Best

Colors are not really Colorful • For teaching to Bigger masses avoid colored fonts • The spectrum of colors is wide • The Black and White is accepted by every human psychology

Copying from Internet • Several PowerPoint documents are available, • Donot download from unfamiliar Internet sites, carries spyware,malware • If you donot have Antiviral programme update at the earliest • Many documents may not suit you major needs

Hyperlinks are Useful and Harmful • In 1990 the first Windows versions were produced for Windows 3.0. Since 1990, PowerPoint has been included in Microsoft Office suite of applications -except for the Basic Editions of the suite.

• The blue colored letters copied from Internet carries hyperlinks if connected to Internet

Never Edit Your Teaching Text Without Spell Check

• Spell check is the important component of any text presentation • Many spelling mistakes weaken your strengths in teaching

You can Upload your Power Point slides to Web, if you have own Password • • • • • •

It is easier to upload to WWW Popular places to upload www.slideshare.com www.pdfcoke.com www.twitter.com www.youtube.com

Your articles are watched Globally If Uploaded • • • •

Several search engines crawl on your site www.googlebot.com You are watched Think twice before putting you material on the Internet. • If it contains information useful to others, you can have several friends in the Scientific circle around the Globe

Do not make Teaching Media Taller than you

Your projector or computer may fail any TIME Put up a Brave Face

Ride on New Technologies To cope up with changing trends in Education

A successful presentation needs a Good Action Thinking is easy Acting is Difficult. And put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the

Created for better understanding on power point presentations Dr.T.V.Rao MD Email [email protected]