Methods To Make The Power Point Presentation Effective For Teaching And Learning

                        Since I didn't attend the class last week so I have refer to Jasmine to know the seven methods to make the power point presentation effective for teaching and learning. How to ensure that we as teachers provide an effective power point slides to deliver our knowledge to the students.

            

                       Firstly, we should choose proper and suitable colour tone for our power point slides. This is to ensure that students are able to read the words in the slides clearly. If we use too dull and striking colour tones, students might have difficulties to read the slides. This will indirectly influence them not to pay attention in the classroom. Therefore, to avoid that, teachers must use only few suitable colour tones for their power point slides to make sure that they have the attention of their students.

                       Next, teachers are advice to use simple animation. This is because complicated or too many animation can cause the students to get confused with what they are viewing on the screen and they tend to lost concentration. Therefore, teachers should provide a simple and only use few types of animation to attract the students to look at the power point slides and also to get the content of it, Teachers can even include simple sound effect for their animation as it can prevent the students from not to fall asleep.

                                   

                      Thirdly, teachers must avoid themselves from putting a lot of information in one single slide as shown in the picture above. This is because students can easily get bored or sleep in the classroom if they view all the slides with long paragraphs or with long essays. So, to attract the students to focus and participate in the class, teachers should minimize putting everything in one slide. Teachers have to prepare slides with important  points or important sentences only. Let the students write down the elaboration about the points ad the teachers explain in front of the class. It is one way a teacher may use to ensure that the students are paying attention in the class and also to prevent them from sleeping. Therefore, teachers should provide slides with the main points so that it is easier for the teachers to explain and for the students to understand even better.

                      Not only that, teachers may include videos and pictures in their power point slides. This is also another way for the teachers to gain their students attention. This is because students tend to understand better when they watch a video or view pictures regarding what they are learning. It is like opening their mind or giving them a clear picture of what they are learning about to ensure that the students can absorb the knowledge. If they understand what they watch or what they view, they tend to remember it more that what the teachers have spoken. 

                      Teachers also should include the topic of the subject they want to teach and their names on the first slide of the power point. This is to make the students to know what topic they are going to learn today and to help them to prepare themselves before the lesson starts. Since the slides are prepared by the teacher itself, it is advice for the teachers to mention "prepared by"  to proof that they are the one who does the power point slides. 

                         

                         Right and suitable font must be used by the teachers when they are preparing the slides. This is because a teacher has many students in his or her classroom, so to ensure that all the students especially those students who are seating at the back of the class are able to read the slides without any problem. Therefore, teachers should estimate size of the class before deciding on which font and size of the font to be used to do the power point slides. This also to ensure that students at the back give their attention and gain the lesson of the day. 

                        Lastly, teachers should know how to present their power point slides. Teachers must avoid themselves from just reading the slides without giving a clear explanation and expecting the students to understand everything that they have spoken. Teachers should only take the main points and explain it to the students so that students understand better. Teachers are advised to communicate with the students as they are explaining in front of the class to get their students focus. Teachers must realise that the slides are only as their reference to conduct their lesson in the class.

    

                         As a conclusion, these are the seven methods that a teacher should consider before preparing the slides. As for me, it actually depends on the teacher itself how they want the slides to be as long as the students understand what the teachers have presented, what the teachers have spoken or taught and most important matter is the students gain knowledge from the power point slides.