evaluating student PowerPoint presentations
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PowerPoint assignments are an effective assessment tool that encourages higher level thinking. This presentation offers a variety of strategies to evaluate student PowerPoint presentations: ways to assess student research, presentation content, technical PowerPoint criteria, and teamwork if the assignment is a group project.
online resources and sample evaluation forms
Scoring Power Points - by Jamie McKensie, From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal, Vol 10|No 1|September|2000 - article with useful guidelines for creating compelling and persuasive presentations, "antidotes for Powerpoint poisoning." [cartoon]
Project Presentation PowerPoint Evaluation Form, open-ended, question-based form from Westfield State College.
Multimedia Mania 2004 - detailed judge's rubric covering mechanical, multimedia, information structures, documentation, and quality of content, from N. Carolina State University.
A+ PowerPoint Rubric, University of Wisconsin, Stout. Suggested for self-assessment and peer feedback.
PowerPoint - Beyond the bells and whistles emphasizes "the real key is whether or not the student's content is enhanced by the use of technology." Offers some simple assessment instruments, from Maricopa Unified Schools.
RubiStar's free rubrics for project-based learning activities - PowerPoint Appearance and Content generates assessment forms with built-in and custom categories. Based, in part, on Pastore's Multimedia Project Evaluation Rubric, adapted from Multimedia Mania....
Assessing Multimedia Presentations, a PowerPoint rubric for written, technical, and communication content.
Instrument for student evaluation of their own PowerPoint as a development guide, from Univ. of MN, Duluth.
how to use technology to facilitate learning
Read Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever, inspired by the classic article The Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education by Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson
more about learning with PowerPoint
Active learning with PowerPoint - from the University of Minnesota. "Despite the fact that so much has been written about PowerPoint’s weaknesses, instructors still feel compelled to adapt PowerPoint to the classroom. This tutorial is designed to help you capitalize on those aspects of PowerPoint that lend themselves best to engaging students interests."
Food for thought
• Is PowerPoint the Devil? by Julia Keller (Chicago Times, 1/22/03)
• Learning to Love PowerPoint by David Byrne (Wired Magazine, 9/2003)
• PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tufte, (Wired Magazine, 9/2003)
• PowerPoint Makes You Dumb by Clive Thompson (New York Times, 12/14/03)
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