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The titles are almost illegible. Needs a different font.
Can we plagiarize, er..... borrow it?????
I'm going to go against the grain here.
Honestly, don't use PowerPoint. Really, I'm serious. It will not enhance your class, it will worsen it. PowerPoint tends to make people dumb complicated things down to a few bullet points, and to read their slides. People read the PowerPoint instead of listening to you.
I know you put a lot of work into this and it would be hard to walk away from it, but you should.
I was recently at a company offsite meeting. We spent 6+ hours each day listening to research talks. One fellow's presentation was concerning the cancer resistance to chemotherapy agents. He used no slides. Not a one. And his was, by far, the very best talk out of about 30.
I've taught Basic Pistol. You don't need PowerPoints and they won't help.
Sorry boys, I don't mean to be argumentative, but...
saying that powerpoints are a bad way to teach is EXACTLY the same thing as saying that guns are evil and kill people
I've taught NRA basic pistol. I've taught technical training classes. I've given presentations at trade shows with PowerPoint. So I have experience that has formed my opinion.
And in my opinion, PowerPoint does not help in this type of class. You can feel free to disagree, but your analogy is way off.
Yes, it is a tool. But the medium does affect your message.My analogy is way off ONLY for someone in denial about what is a teaching tool and what is not.
Again, no offense intended. PP is a tool and guns are a tool. Same difference.
Alas, slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis.
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
Finally, some people use PowerPoint as basically their notes to talk from. The problem is that this almost inevitably results in them reading their slides. Old school 3x5 cards work better. Don't put sentences on your cards -- just a brief phrase to remind you of the topic you need to discuss.
I do have to disagree with almost every point you've made; PP can be useful when used right.
THIS is what the biggest problem is; so big that there's a not-too-flattering name for it. Death by PowerPoint.
Yes, it is a tool. But the medium does affect your message.
Edward Tufte, the noted author, has written:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
Are there types of presentations where PowerPoint really helps? Yes. But, in my opinion, based on my experience as an instructor, Basic Pistol isn't one of them.
For the OP, ask yourself this: what are you trying to achieve with the PowerPoint? Will your presentation be better with their attention divided between you and the slideware? Or will it be better if their attention is directly focused on you? What can you present better with a picture in PowerPoint than with a gun (or replica gun) in your hand?
Finally, some people use PowerPoint as basically their notes to talk from. The problem is that this almost inevitably results in them reading their slides. Old school 3x5 cards work better. Don't put sentences on your cards -- just a brief phrase to remind you of the topic you need to discuss.
Sorry boys, I don't mean to be argumentative, but...
saying that powerpoints are a bad way to teach is EXACTLY the same thing as saying that guns are evil and kill people
Isn't that what speaker notes are for?
Blame the user, not the tool.
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I didn't say power points are bad, what I'm saying is don't use power points for the basic pistol class. I've taken the basic class; I know what's in it. Provided you have a normal size group (under 30 people) it is better to use props and talk to the audiance directly.
Make a handout of the diagram with part names
Don't show a powerpoint photo of a revolver, show a revolver
Don't show a powerpoint photo of a magazine, show a magazine
Don't show a powerpoint photo of cartridges, show cartridges
etc...
That's how my class went and it was great. For example, when the instructor wanted to show us the rifling in the barrel he walked around the room and showed us the rifling illuminating the barrel (removed from the pistol) with a flashlight. If I wanted a power point presentation I'd just watch a you tube video.