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Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentation Skills in the Language Classroom Peter Heath 1995 2008 1st International Conference on guistic and Intercultural Education TAMK University Of Applied Sciences

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A slide design method that improves presentation skills on foreign language courses.

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Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentation Skills in the Language Classroom

Peter Heath

1995 2008

The 1st International Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education

TAMK UniversityOf Applied Sciences

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http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/teaching_slide_design.html

The slide design presented here is taught onengineering and science courses

Can also be used in the foreign langaugeclassroom

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This presentation introduces an effective slide design for better foreign language communication

Reasons for using the slide design

A description of the slide design

Results of using the slide design

The slide design consists of an assertion headline of no more than two lines

Image

Point 1Two lines

Point 2Two lines

Point 3Two lines

Supporting image

Assertion headlineSupportingpoints

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This presentation introduces an effective slide design for better foreign language communication

Reasons for using the slide design

A description of the slide design

Results of using the slide design

The slide design consists of an assertion headline of no more than two lines

Image

Point 1Two lines

Point 2Two lines

Point 3Two lines

Supporting image

Assertion headlineSupportingpoints

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Foreign language teaching is less effective when taught in isolation from the degree programme

Language Teaching

Future career

Future career

Engineering Degree Programme

Maths

Chemistry

Physics

Professional subjects

Presentations

Too long between learning and using

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Black Hole

Results always poor no matter how good the language skills

Teaching presentation skills without teaching slide design is a black hole in language teaching

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The default layouts offered by PowerPoint are not suitable for professional presentations

Phrase headingNon-descriptive

Bullet pointsNon-hierarchal

BackgroundNoisy

Students must be taught how to design slides

Monotonous

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When creating presentation slides, four goals should be set

Converting an analog signal to a digital signal requires a sampling of the signal

Accelerometer outputs an analog voltage

Hardware converts analog signal to digital

Computer samples a number of points

Data is exported to popular applications

Excel

The design should helpthe audience during thepresentation

The design should serveas notes after the presentation

Robertshaw, Harry, “Class Period 15: Signals and Systems,” classroom

The design should helpthe audience remember the presentation

The design should helpcolleagues give the same presentation

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This presentation introduces an effective slide design for better foreign language communication

Reasons for using the slide design

A description of the slide design

Results of using the slide design

The slide design consists of an assertion headline of no more than two lines

Image

Point 1Two lines

Point 2Two lines

Point 3Two lines

Supporting image

Assertion headlineSupportingpoints

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Sentence headlineAssertion (point of slide)

ImagesImportant words(supports point)

The slide design arises from principles of rhetoric, cognitive psychology, and human factors science

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Effective redundancy

The slide design arises from principles of rhetoric, cognitive psychology, and human factors science

Paivio’s dual coding theory

Recall/recognition is enhanced by presenting information in both visual and verbal form. (http://tip.psychology.org/paivio.html)

Repetition of themessage in differentways

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The slide design is non-language specific

Allows knowledge learned on one course to be used on another (knowledge transfer)

Communicatingacross the curriculum

Vaihteen tehtävä on alentaa potkurin pyörimisnopeutta

Kampiakselilta saatu teho tulee siirtää potkurin akselille

Pyörimisnopeutta tulee alentaa suhteessa 2,43:1 potkurin lavankärkien nopeuden vuoksi (oltava alle äänennopeuden)

纤维技术产品生产过程主要分为五个流程

完整木材生产线

木片存储

原木处理

剥皮

树皮存储

削片和筛选

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Language Teaching

Engineering Degree Programme

Future career

Future career

Maths

Chemistry

Physics

Professional subjects

Presentations

Foreign language teaching is more effective when it is an integral part of the degree programme

Leads to graduates with better communication skills

Presentations

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This presentation introduces an effective slide design for better foreign language communication

Reasons for using the slide design

A description of the slide design

Results of using the slide design

The slide design consists of an assertion headline of no more than two lines

Image

Point 1Two lines

Point 2Two lines

Point 3Two lines

Supporting image

Assertion headlineSupportingpoints

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The slide design has greatly improved the quality of the presentations given on English courses

Black Hole

Before

After

Students produce betterpresentations

Students use the design in other subjects

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”Since learning Peter’s methods, the communication Skills of our undergraduate engineers and the whole department have improved dramatically”

Dr Ulla Haggblom-AhngerDirector of Paper, Textile and Chemical Engineering education,TAMK

Faculty report an improvement in presentation skills on their courses

Vaihteen tehtävä on alentaa potkurin pyörimisnopeutta

Kampiakselilta saatu teho tulee siirtää potkurin akselille

Pyörimisnopeutta tulee alentaa suhteessa 2,43:1 potkurin lavankärkien nopeuden vuoksi (oltava alle äänennopeuden)

”In engineering education too little empasisis is put on presentation skills. Thankfully, Peter Heath’s methodshave helped our students become much better presenters. Because of the professional training students now receive, the quality of student presentations on our faculty courses has made a great difference to the overall quality of the learningenvironment. ”

Fiber technology products are divided into 5 main areas

Complete wood handling lines

Chip storage

Log handling

Debarking

Barkstorage

Chipping and screening

Heikki Aalto Lentokonetekniikan yliopettaja

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Faculty report an improvement in presentation skills on their courses

“I have noticed a clear improvement in the way computer sciencestudents present things. Project presentations and thesis seminarshave improved greatly. When I asked students the reasons for this improvement, the answer was Peter. He has demanded that students put more effort into their presentations by showing and teachinghow good a PowerPoint presentation can be.

Kiitos Peter”

Ari Rantala Head of Studies, Computer Science TAMK

Hermoverkon yleisin malli on kolmikerroksinen niin kutsuttu Feedforward neural network

Heräte

Input layer eli herätekerros

Hidden layer eli piilokerros

Output layer eli ulostulokerros

Vaste

Neuroni

Synapsi

Hermo Verkot Teemu Karimerto TAMK 2008

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In summary, the slide design can be an important tool in the language classroom

It is more effectivethan PowerPointdefaults

It is non-language specific

It meets the goalsof slide design

Students graduate as better communicators

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This presentation introduced an effective slide design for better foreign language communication

Reasons for using the slide design

A description of the slide design

Results of using the slide design

The slide design consists of an assertion headline of no more than two lines

Image

Point 1Two lines

Point 2Two lines

Point 3Two lines

Supporting image

Assertion headlineSupportingpoints

Questions?

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Although researchers give validation more attention, validation requires successful verification

Validation

Is the PDE model appropriate?

Do we solve the right equations?

Verification

Are the numerical models correctly implemented?

Do we solve the right equations?

Hans Petter Langtangen and Ola Skaghaug, “A First Step Towards Automatic Verfication of PDE Code”