Bad Presentations

I'm trying to be a better presenter and making better presentations. Going to blog about it this week.

It started when I was watching some student presentations. I noticed that my ESL students truly crutch on reading a Power Point word for word. I also noticed some major word and color fouls. Then there was the questions of plagiarism (yikes!). While I try to stick to these rules, that doesn't seem to work for my students. They need some explicit instruction if I am going to allow them (optionally or otherwise) to use a presentation tool in class.

So this week I made a presentation on my presentation rules for presentations.




You can find the whole thing here. There is a script to go with the slides as well which you can access through the settings button or by looking at the original.

Now would also be a good time to mention other presentation tools besides Microsoft PowerPoint.
Try making a Prezi, GoogleDocs, Zoho, or something crazy. Click here for a list. I like the online ones because if you are like me, sharing presentations is a big deal.

Some neat presentation tips with a business slant, could easily be adapted to ESL.

Happy presenting!