Good PowerPoint

Practices
 Font
• Font size
– 24+ Content
– 28+ Title
• Font: sans serif
– Verdana or Arial
• No more than 2 fonts/slide
• No ALL CAPS or underlining
 Text
• 7 x 7 rule
– Less than 7 lines per slide
– Less than 7 words per line
• Sharp contrast between text and
background
• Keep text short
 Graphics

Shapes and Graphics Meaning

Animations Relationship
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Needs Curriculum Design Outcomes:

Input •Scope •Material

•Target tasks
•Constraints •Sequence •Teaching
•Context
(values) •Pedagogy •Assessment
•Resources

E v a l u a t i o n
 Exercise
Illustrate the
developmental stages of
CALL
 Raw Material
Stage 1970s-1980s 1980s-1990s 21st Century:
Structural CALL Communicative Integrative CALL
CALL
Technology Mainframe PCs Multimedia and
Internet
English teaching Grammar translation Communicate Content based,
paradigm and audio-lingual language teaching English for Specific
Purposes/English for
Academic Purposes
View of language Structural (a formal Cognitive (a Sociocognitive
structural system) mentally constructed (developed in social
system) interaction)
Principal use of Drill and practice Communicative Authentic discourse
computers exercises
Principal objective Accuracy Fluency Agency
 70s-80s 80s-90s 21st Century
Stages: Structural Communicative Integrative
CALL CALL CALL
 Instructional Strategies

• Make your presentation interactive

• Post questions to foster discussion
• Post exercises for collaborative
work
• Post answers incrementally; lead
students to solution
• Give directions

From http://www.csub.edu/itv/Best_Practices.ppt
What does CALL stand for?
 Check all that represent
good PowerPoint practices

Use Serif Font (Times New Roman)

 Creating editable text
• ViewToolbarsControl Toolbox
• Click on
• Click on the Properties button
• In the Behavior section, find Multiline,
select “True”
• Find EnterKeyBehavior, select “True”
 Creating checkbox
• In your Control Toolbox
• Click
• Click
• In the Appearance section, find
Caption, and type in text.
• In the Font section, find Font and
change it to the desired font.
 Resources
• Best practices using PPT:
– http://
it.usu.edu/fact/files/uploads/PP_BestPractices.pdf
– http://www.turpincommunication.com/articles/pptbestpr
actices.htm
– http://onenw.org/toolkit/powerpoint-best-practices/
• Using Control Toolbox:
– www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppactivex.html#textbox