We as teachers must of the time assign oral presentation and we incite our students to engage in the use of technology to present their topics. But when is time to evaluate their presentation is difficult to know what criteria to use in order to evaluate correctly the work of our students. In his article Scoring PowerPoints Mckenzie establishes what I believe is a concrete, powerful, and effective way to evaluate such assessment instruments.
One of the first things Mckenzie mentions is the fact that the teacher needs to set the example. We need to provide our students with guidelines that will serve as molds of the end product we are expecting them to present. I agree with this idea completely, because by doing so students will know what to do during the creative process and have expectations about their future grades. In the article he mention many important aspects on how to construct a PowerPoint presentation, but one of the most I agree on is the fact that you don't need to add a slide full of text. The presenter has to have clear that the abstract of his ideas is what goes on the slides while he presents in an orally matter the meaning those abstracts convey.
Trying to find something to disagree on with the author, I read the article various time with many failed attempts. He makes the idea concise and precise in order for us teacher to be successful when assigning presentations. If you are smart enough and follow his advice you might take the complications about powerpoint presentations in your classroom. It might even provide you with better creative skills for your own presentations.
Go ahead and read the article! Hope you enjoy it.
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