REFLECTION5-8 RULES EFFECTIVE USE OF POWER POINT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

REFLECTION 5
8 RULES EFFECTIVE USE OF POWER POINT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

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Without wasting  time today I straight  jumped into the topic. Nowadays everybody love to use power point in teaching and learning process. So today' s topic could help you all more to your future.  There are few rules that all the people should gain for doing  an effective power point.

1. LIMIT CONTENT
This means the teachers should limit the content,  without giving much details in one slide. Giving too much detail, however may be counterproductive. Each slide should contain only one key point and think of the slides as a talking outline that help students follow along, take good note, think about what being taught and participate. Teachers also need be concise, use notes pages, and make it interactive.

2. FACILATE THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA
Power point can facilitate the use of multimedia, such as Internet, Video clips, and sound files. This could make the class more interesting, bring interest and enjoyable. It also a helpful tool for outlining to teachers.

3. INCLUDE LEARNING OBJECTIVE
This means in power point must include learning objective on topic of the lesson. Learning objective is a statement of what the students will be learned from the end of the lesson. This is very important for teacher and students in order to recognize what has being taught and learned in every end of the lesson.

4. USE SUITABLE FONT AND COLOURS
Teachers should consider the effect of color on the atmosphere in the classroom when using power point. Choose suitable background colors and fonts. As a certain colors are known to suggest certain moods, a teacher should consciously choose color. Do not use light color for fonts when the background is very bright. White and black background color is commonly used in PowerPoint presentation slide.

5. ADD MORE IMAGES
Nowadays people are more to visual learners. For example, mathematic is more to calculation subject, to attract the interest of students teacher can include some pictures to make the class interesting. This could help the students by having clear understanding by referring to the picture.

6. USE BULLETS POINTS AND HIGHLIGHT THE MAIN POINTS
To avoid long sentences the teachers can use bullets to identify the main by highlight or bold the particular word.  Short sentence better than giving a long sentence. Long sentence means students use all their time to focused on note taking and the lack of note talking caused the students to process less in class.

7. USE ANIMATION  IN SLIDES
By giving the same slides the students feel so boring, to avoid that teachers can include some animation to attract students. And keep in mind that don't use so many animation in one  power point presentation because it looks so messy. Just give one or two slide to avoid messiness and use the speed animation to avoid waste time.

8. PROVIDE WORKSHEET OR ACTIVITY IN SLIDES
To evaluate the students understanding teachers can give a short activity in the middle and end of the subject to evaluate the understanding of the subject matter. This will more easier rather giving  hangouts to the students.

Thank You.