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Engaging Classroom Presentations: Techniques to Capture Student Attention

In today's classrooms, presentations must be vibrant and engaging. This guide emphasizes the importance of using pictures, colors, and humor to grab students' attention quickly. Tools like overhead and digital projectors can enhance learning by displaying clear visuals and real-time data. Effective use of PowerPoint reduces text clutter while fostering comprehension through dual coding with images. Research shows that visually rich content can significantly boost motivation and participation in students. Discover the transformative power of visuals and color to create unforgettable learning experiences.

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Engaging Classroom Presentations: Techniques to Capture Student Attention

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  1. Powerful Presentation By: Kalene Duke

  2. Presentations are important • They should bring excitement into the classroom, through pictures, color, presentations that grab a child’s attention, fast! • The presentation should explain the material so that the student can learn the material.

  3. Tools for presentations • Overhead Projectors- Displays commercial or teacher made transparencies against a screen, classroom wall, or whiteboard. • Digital Projectors- displays real-time computer images from the computer, Displays software or internet for large groups. • Presentations that show videos.

  4. Getting students interest • Humor can be helpful to a presentation. Everyone enjoys humor and what better way of learning is to laugh with it. Any age in the classroom can use humor with learning. You can smile in school! • In a PowerPoint presentation, avoid to much text on one slide, add pictures and colors to attract ones eye.

  5. Images are powerful • Humans process visuals 60,000 faster than text. • Images are stored in long-term memory • Different areas of the brain become more active when individuals are exposed to verbal and visual information. • Rather then using pictures to “decorate” text, they can support dual coding and in turn increase comprehension.

  6. Visuals and color in the classroom • Images and video can break down the walls of the classroom and take our students places they’ve never seen before. • Visually rich presentations draw students in and be more engaging. • Benefits of color in a presentation can increase willingness to read by up to 80%, increase motivation and participation up to 80% too. • Some more facts on the powers of images, go to, http://67techcamp.weebly.com/create-powerful-presentations.html

  7. Resources • http://www.slideshare.net/bevans48/how-to-present-a-powerful-presentation • Teaching and Learning with Technology • Required Readings- Week 5

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