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Stop spending all your time making PowerPoints! What you need to know as an IT educator instead.
Stop spending all your time making PowerPoints! What you need to know as an IT educator instead.
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“PowerPoint as an innovative tool for teaching and learning in modern classes”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s9d6xQKf_jM
TRANSCRIPT:
Stop spending so much time making PowerPoints.
If I had to give one piece of advice to brand new, IT, information security, software development, technical instructors, that would be it, just stop spending so much time making PowerPoints.
So in this video, what I wanted to do is share with you a couple of my tips about how to effectively use PowerPoint as a teaching tool in technical courses and hands on related courses. And so the thing that I see, and I've seen in the past over the last almost 20 years, is that when people are brand new to teaching, people are, you know, very passionate about their topic.
They want to know, they want to make sure that they can answer every single question that their students ask them is that they start to over prepare, and spend so much time on the content and making sure you know, every little thing, every little, every little piece about the content. And as a result, all that information gets put into PowerPoint. And so you're creating these very elaborate PowerPoints, maybe you're giving a 30 minute lecture or a 45 minute lecture, maybe even a 20 minute lecture.
And you're spending all this time putting together a PowerPoint. And when you should be using that time for other things,
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By Heather Monthie, PhDStop spending all your time making PowerPoints! What you need to know as an IT educator instead.
Download the Tech Teacher Toolkit here
https://bit.ly/TechTeacherToolkit
Join the Cyber Coffee Talk community to discuss more about your tech career!
https://bit.ly/YourTechCareer
“PowerPoint as an innovative tool for teaching and learning in modern classes”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s9d6xQKf_jM
TRANSCRIPT:
Stop spending so much time making PowerPoints.
If I had to give one piece of advice to brand new, IT, information security, software development, technical instructors, that would be it, just stop spending so much time making PowerPoints.
So in this video, what I wanted to do is share with you a couple of my tips about how to effectively use PowerPoint as a teaching tool in technical courses and hands on related courses. And so the thing that I see, and I've seen in the past over the last almost 20 years, is that when people are brand new to teaching, people are, you know, very passionate about their topic.
They want to know, they want to make sure that they can answer every single question that their students ask them is that they start to over prepare, and spend so much time on the content and making sure you know, every little thing, every little, every little piece about the content. And as a result, all that information gets put into PowerPoint. And so you're creating these very elaborate PowerPoints, maybe you're giving a 30 minute lecture or a 45 minute lecture, maybe even a 20 minute lecture.
And you're spending all this time putting together a PowerPoint. And when you should be using that time for other things,