Tell ‘n’ Show Slide Design

This is probably a strange topic of discussion, but “bad PowerPoint” has become somewhat of a hobby of mine. I attended the Midwest Scholars Conference over the winter, and I discovered there that my classroom PowerPoint slides were bad, and not bad in the good way either. I have since tried to reformat my slides into something a little less “bad”, but it is difficult to keep from bulleted lists, which are apparently a no-no because they get too wordy. The problem for me is that I look at bulleted lists and notice that they look clean and organize, but they apparently don’t facilitate learning very well.

Anyway, I think the last example on this page about the components of a presentation may finally break my overuse of the bulleted list. Perhaps while I have these few months off this summer, I may be able to utilize some of these concepts in my hundreds of slides containing bulleted lists. We’ll see. However, if you are planning on putting together a presentation for class, there are plenty of ideas and references on Ellen Finkelstein’s page you can use. I’ll try to get some more up here as they become available.