Nowadays MS PowerPoint is frequently used in education field. A judicious PowerPoint courseware will make the teacher teach more effectively; on the contrary, a poor job will destroy the lesson. Therefore, it is quite important to make the PowerPoint courseware more effective. Here are some tips!
1. Be clear about the goal.
Before creating your own courseware, make sure you know your goal of the lesson well. It works as the beacon with which you will always walk through the right way. There will be the standard to choose the content. Following the goal, it is impossible to lose the direction or move to the wrong way.
2. Be careful on the design of your PowerPoint.
If there are just some plain words on the slides, students could become dull easily; however, too many garish elements will scatter the audiences’ attention. Based on these situations, a proper design of the courseware matters a lot. In a courseware, there should be a suitable match of words and other content.
3. Some tips on the details
• Include only 3-7 points per slide and 3-7 words per bullet
• One theme or background; one font set; one text animation effect
• Avoid using complete sentences, using clause instead
• Don’t show all points on a slide at once, otherwise, students will read ahead and stop listening to the presentation
• Challenge students to use pictures in stead of text, initiate talking with students and among students
Proper ideas of PowerPoint courseware design are critical to a successful courseware. Besides the appearance of a PPT courseware, we may consider more for the content of it. Here are some useful sites that can help educators prepare a more judicious courseware.
1. Education World: is the good friend for teachers. Here you will find the brilliant education links and original content. There are abundant education resources for your lesson planning, school issues, and so on.
2. Sites for teachers: holds hundreds of educational websites ranked by popularity. It is the ideal web for teachers to find out resources.
3. Teach-nology: offers free and easy to use resources for teachers including lesson plans, teaching tips and discussion board, etc.
The principles and disciplines to make a good courseware are comparatively hard to change, but the way to share the PowerPoint courseware can be various. Traditionally, teachers show the PPT courseware on computer through projector to the class. Sometimes, slides are emailed under students and colleagues’ appeal. However, when people don’t have a computer or the file size is too big for email, how do you deal with it? Here come the tips!
1. Burn your PowerPoint courseware to DVD
Burning your PowerPoint courseware to DVD (http://www.acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html#176) is the ideal way to distribute your courseware. You no longer need to worry if others own a computer or have PowerPoint installed, because after conversion, the file can be viewed on any TV with DVD player and DVD can be supported by most computers & players.
2. Email your large-size PowerPoint courseware after converting them to flash
SWF or flash has much smaller file size than PPT. Thus, you don’t need to worry how to email your PowerPoint with big size to others. Once you convert PowerPoint courseware to flash, you can send it freely to whomever you want to. In order to do this, you need a PowerPoint to flash converter. You can try the following software: Acoolsoft PPT2Flash (http://www.acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-flash-overview.html#176 ), Wondershare PPT2Flash, etc.
3. Share your PowerPoint courseware online
www.slideshare.net , www.slideboom.com are good presentation sharing websites. This is an ideal way to share the presentation online, but you cannot download the file to your computer and there is limitation on the file size.
Luckily, there’s anther way to handle the situation. You can share the files online by converting the PowerPoint courseware to video or flash. Thus you could upload your PowerPoint courseware to your own website or blog to make students and others see the PowerPoint courseware as long as they visit your web page. You can click http://www.acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-video-overview.html#176 to know the software that can convert PowerPoint courseware to video.
It is so popular to make courseware with PowerPoint. The effective courseware will help teacher give a more wonderful lesson and make it easier for student to learn. As a result, try your best to make a judicious PowerPoint courseware!
