Avoiding Karaoke Powerpoint

This page contains resources from the UTDC workshop of the same name as well as additional material on effective presentations of all types, not just those involving Powerpoint (or any technology). For any questions, or to request that this session be offered for yourself and colleagues, please contact Stephen Marshall (x5205, stephen.marshall@vuw.ac.nz).

This workshop assumes that participants can use the Powerpoint software. For training in the software itself, please see the courses provided by CEED. Information can be found on the CEED website.

Handouts from the workshop

• Powerpoint workshop slides (minus copyright material sorry) [ppt file: 1.4MB]
• Powerpoint workshop slides handout (minus copyright material sorry) [pdf file: 7.4MB]
• Bad examples [ppt file: 888KB]

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Useful web sites

• Edward Tufte on Powerpoint (especially bullets)
  http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/discourse
• Don Norman's response to Edward Tufte
  http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/discourse
• Guidelines on giving a Truely Terrible Talk.
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/23/4334537/04334541.pdf?tp=&isnumber=4334537&arnumber=4334541
• The Gettysberg Address - very worthwhile
  http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
• Resources for Improving Lectures.
  A very useful web page with background material, research and practical suggestions.
  http://www.simpson.edu/dal/faculty/lecture.html

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Bibliography

Baker, L., & Lombardi, B. R. (1985)
StudentsÕ lecture notes and their relation to test performance.
Teaching of Psychology, 12

Blanc, R.A., DeBuhr, L., & Martin, D.C. (1983)
Breaking the attrition cycle: The effects of Supplemental Instruction on undergraduate performance and attrition
Journal of Higher Education, 1983, 54(1), 80-89.Ê

Bligh, Donald (2000)
WhatÕs the Use of Lectures.
Jossey-Bass

Burns, R. A. (1985)
Information impact and factors affecting recall.
Paper presented at Annual National Conference on Teaching Excellence and Conference of Administrators, Austin TX.
(ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 258 639)

Buzan, T.Ê(1989)
Use Your Head (Revised Edition).
BBC Books, London, UK. [LB1049 B992 U 1982]Ê

Johnstone, A.H. & Percival, F. (1976)
Attention Breaks in Lectures.
Education in Chemistry, 13, 49

Johnstone, A. H., & Su, W. Y. (1994)
Lectures - a learning experience?
Education in Chemistry, 31 (1), 75-76, 79.

Karplus, R., Lawson, A.E., Wollman, W., Appel, M., Bernoff, R., Howe, A.,
Rusch, J.J., & Sullivan, F. (1976)
Science teaching and the development of reasoning: A workshop.
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Locke, A (1977).
An empirical study of lecture note taking among college students.
Journal of Educational Research, 77

Miller, G.A. (1956)
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.
The Psychological Review, 63, 81-97

Renner, J.W., Stafford, D.G., Lawson, A.W., McKinnon, J.W., Friot, F.E., & Kellogg, D.H.
Research, teaching and learning with the Piaget model.
Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.

Tufte, E.R. (2001)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
2nd Edition, Graphics Press LLC, Cheshire, CO, USA.

Tufte, E.R. (2003)
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
Graphics Press LLC, Cheshire, CO, USA.

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