Teaching Tip Thursday: Powerpoints

For some reason, asking students to create a PowerPoint presentation is still a very commonly assigned project (ooo, technology...).  However, very few teachers take the time to explain how to make a good presentation and even less actually make them then present that presentation.

This year, I assigned my advanced 7th graders a project that included a powerpoint as the final product piece.  After 2 days of the groups working on them in Google Slides, I checked in to see how they were doing and IMMEDIATELY regretted not giving any visual expectations.  I quickly put together this presentation to hopefully correct their most common mistakes. 

Feel free to use with your students as well.  (There might even be a ppt-happy teacher on your team who could benefit from these tips too!)