Florida ged plus college Preparation Program Curriculum and Resource Guide


General Guidelines for Developing Effective Presentation



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General Guidelines for Developing Effective Presentation


PowerPoint is easy to learn. With minimal practice, most people can become fairly proficient with PowerPoint in a short amount of time. However, it can be difficult to create a good, strong presentation. PowerPoint has a lot of bells and whistles that sound great, but can prove to be a major distraction for students. The purpose for using PowerPoint is to enhance student learning. The following are tips for using the technology to enhance the content.

Before Your Begin


  • Design the slides for their primary purpose – screen, print, or transparencies.

  • Design an alternate format for the secondary purpose. Remember that some slides look great when projected and terrible when printed.

  • Limit use of tables, charts, and maps as they can be hard to read unless the amount of information included is limited.

  • Don’t put everything in the PowerPoint.



Setting Up Text on Slides


  • Limit the amount of information on each slide

  • Include one concept, idea, or topic per slide

  • Include no more than five to seven words per line

  • Include no more than five to seven lines per slide (more than that and the text size will reduce to a point that will be hard to read)

  • Limit yourself to one font style for all slides, titles, text, etc.

  • Use no more than two to three sizes of the font you choose

    • The largest size for titles (48 point)

    • The second largest for each main point (36)

    • The smallest for supporting details (24)

    • Never use less that 18 point font (it is too small to read)

  • Avoid shadowed text if at all possible

  • Avoid using all caps

  • Use a combination of upper and lowercase letters

  • Use bulleted information rather than complete sentences

  • Use bold or italics for emphasis

  • Use underlining only for links

  • Maintain parallel structure when writing bulleted information – see the sample below.


To improve your PowerPoint presentation,

you should:




  • Use bulleted information

  • Include bold text for emphasis

  • Write clear, concise statements

  • Avoid shadowed text


Using Color on Slides


    • Use dark blues, grays, and greens for backgrounds.

    • Avoid red, gold, or any bright color for backgrounds.

    • Avoid blue or red type – it is too hard to read.

    • Use yellow type on a blue background – it is the easiest to combination to read (if you don’t like yellow and blue, then use a dark background that you like with light lettering).

    • Avoid changing color palettes in the middle of a presentation – it will look as if you merged two different presentations together.

    • Avoid white or clear backgrounds.

    • Use the templates provided in PowerPoint – they have been designed with an appropriate color palette.

Using Special Effects


There is only one thing to remember when including special effects such as slide transitions or custom animations – less is better. Too many transitions and too much flying text is a distraction that students don’t want or need. Limit transitions and custom animations to only those areas to which you want to draw attention.


PowerPoint Tutorials and Resources


There are many excellent resources on the web for instructors who want to use PowerPoint but don’t know how or for those who want to increase their skills with PowerPoint. The following websites provide tutorials for all levels of learners:

        • PowerPoint in the Classroom

http://www.actden.com/pp/index.htm


http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/ed596/ppoint/pphome.htm


        • Designing Student Presentations with and without PowerPoint

http://ctl.conncoll.edu/ppt/pdfdocs/CTL-PP-StudPres.pdf


        • Jan’s Working with Presentations – PowerPoint Tutorial (Basic and Advanced)

http://www.jegsworks.com/Lessons/presentations/basics/index.html

Content Guidelines for Florida GED PLUS College Reading



"It is one thing to let new people into an ongoing party; the newcomer is the one who must struggle to fit in. It is another thing to change the party; now it is the educator and the institution that must struggle to fit in" (Kegan, 1994, p. 273).

Overview


Students need strategies to assist them in previewing, organizing, and comprehending text at the college level. This requires that students possess a vocabulary that is appropriate for entry into the college system, as well as strategies that can be used in any subject area. When implementing this section of the curriculum, college-level texts should be used as part of the instruction. This allows students to have experiences with different types of texts, writing styles, and formats.

The Florida GED PLUS Advisory Committee has identified the following objectives for reading.

Students should be able to:


  1. Read materials at beginning college level, to include various types of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama

  2. Exhibit an increased amount of reading in diverse subject areas with appropriate rate and fluency for beginning college level (reading should be completed both in and out of the classroom)

  3. Use different types of reading comprehension skills dependent on the text

    1. Skimming

    2. Scanning

    3. Careful reading

    4. Intensive reading




  1. Select and apply different reading strategies

    1. SQ3R Study Method

    2. GIST

    3. About Point

    4. Cornell Notes

    5. Mapping and graphic organizers

    6. KWL

    7. Venn Diagram (compare and contrast organizers)

    8. Scaffolding

    9. Cloze




  1. Read diverse passages of 200 words or more in different content areas and answer correctly questions that require higher-order critical thinking skills, such as:

    1. Comprehension

    2. Application

    3. Analysis

    4. Synthesis

    5. Evaluation




  1. Use and apply vocabulary written at an ending high school/beginning college level

  2. Deliver a classroom presentation and/or speech that is persuasive, narrative, and/or descriptive

  3. Understand and identify different types of figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, irony, etc.

  4. Summarize plots, themes, conflicts, and characters in literature

  5. Develop questions for reading materials

  6. Use the World Wide Web to build research skills and identify resources

This section of the Florida GED PLUS College Preparation Program Curriculum and Resource Guide has been divided into eleven (11) objectives. Basic information about each objective has been included, as well as instructional strategies and resources that can be used to meet each objective.



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