Theoretical Knowledge – 2

Online tools categories

Key features of a good video lesson
Principles of designing ppt lessons
procedures of designing ppt lessons
Considerations for ppt lessons
Chapter 2: Designing PPT Gameshows
❖ Features of a good ppt gameshow (effective, pedagogical, competitive, exciting)
❖ Hyperlink & Trigger
❖ Timer
❖ Slide cover/ rules
❖ Lucky number game
❖ Hidden picture game
❖ Crossword game

Online Tools Categories

• For Quizzes: Kahoot, Gimkit, Quizlet, Quizizz, Wordwall, Nearpod, etc.
• For Testing, Assessment: Google/Microsoft forms, quizzes
• For Discussion and Brainstorming: Padlet, Menti, etc.
Key Features Of A Good Video Lesson
• Effectively designed scripts
• Appropriate selection & application of contents
• Suitable use of audios
• Use of suitable visuals
• Duration

Principles Of Designing Ppt Lessons

1. Ensuring pedagogical quality:
Key elements that constitute the pedagogical quality of a lesson:
- It should be able to attract attention and raise students’ interest in learning.
- Slides should be appropriately designed in terms of color use, fit well with the selected
contents and the educational environment.
- Use appropriate fonts and font sizes.
- Visual illustrations should be suited to contents and students, and the teacher should have
good presentation skills to ensure students’ most effective knowledge acquisition.
2. Ensuring lesson effectiveness:
- Lessons should be learners-oriented, focus on what students gain from each lesson, make
sure that ppt lessons are of superior quality compared to the conventional board-and-
chalk lessons.
3. Ensuring the effectiveness of knowledge selection & classification
- Teachers should logically select, classify knowledge contents to make it easier for
storage, editing and addition in the future.
4. Ensuring optimization
- The selected and stored materials should be easy to access, store, share whenever
necessary.
5. Ensuring freshness of information:
It is critical that teachers take advantage of the computer’s abilities to store and update
information. He/she should regularly check and update the knowledge he/she has prepared to
teach students.
6. Ensuring effective slides design and teaching methodology
There are some aspects teachers should consider when delivering lessons with ppt slides:
- Colors of background, fonts, font sizes
- Amount of contents on each slide
- Have a clear outline for each slide and use effects, make sure that contents appear one
after another, not altogether (that will confuse students)
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Procedures Of Designing Ppt Lessons
Stage 1: Deciding lesson’s objectives.
- Teacher should learn main contents from the main coursebook and read extra reference
materials to select what information the students need to remember, what to elaborate
more on, and from then outline the main lesson goals that students need to achieve after
the lesson (in 3 main aspects being knowledge, skills and attitude).
- Teachers need to prioritize students’ knowledge acquisition, the ultimate goal is students
understanding the knowledge, not teacher finishing all the to-be-delivered contents.
Stage 2: Deciding lesson’s main contents.
- Teacher needs to prepare lessons that deliver knowledge in close relation with
coursebook’s contents to ensure quality of the course.
- Nevertheless, they could reorganize the order of contents to be taught so as to highlight
clearly the relationship between various parts of knowledge plus make them more
comprehensible, especially the main contents.
Stage 3: Digitalize knowledge parts.
This is the most critical in designing ppt lessons, teachers need to know how to digitalize
knowledge, transforming idle words from coursebooks into lively charts, pictures, videos, etc. on
slides to attract students’ attention and gauge their interest. The detailed steps are as follows:
- Transfer knowledge from textbook onto computers.
- Classify knowledge (to help decide the means to illustrate each kind, such as charts,
videos or pictures, etc.).
- Edit, select quality contents from a wide range of sources (coursebooks, reference books,
online sources, etc.)
 • Select a few other tools to use alongside with the ppt slides during the lesson.
Stage 4: Developing information sources/database.
After selecting suitable sources, materials, teachers should reorganize them into folders for
storage.
Stage 5: Developing teaching procedures.
- Decide the contents to be shown on each slide and the total number of slides
- The steps of inputting the knowledge and adding effects should be done separately to
avoid confusion
- After having knowledge and effects on slides, add hyperlinks (for connection between
slides and external sources)
- Teachers should select software programs that are simple, user-friendly, the selection
should be based on ICT level of each individual teacher.
Stage 6: Checking and Editing
- Teachers should check ppt slides to make timely adjustments before class.
- The checking and editing step should be done after finishing all slides, not after designing
each slide.

Considerations For Ppt Lessons

Lesson contents:
• Lead-in: A few techniques for leading into new lesson.
- Directly by discussing the importance of the new lesson’s knowledge
- Indirectly by transitioning from previous lesson’s knowledge
- Creating a situation related to the new lesson’s contents
- Introducing a question that can be answered after learning the knowledge from the
new lesson
• Overview: Develop 3 slides:
- 1 Cover slide to introduce unit, lesson, topics.
- 1 slide to introduce main Lesson Objectives
- 1 Overview slide to introduce main lesson contents.
• Body (Main contents):
• Contents should be selected and made concise enough to put on slides.
• 1 slide, 1 content/group of contents.
• Use visual illustrations
• Use highlight techniques (bold, italic, color variations, CAPITAL LETTERS) to help
students follow better.
• Use hyperlinks for convenient moving between slides.
• Classify contents (for note-taking, illustration, discussion, elaboration, etc.)
• Consolidation: use a gameshow at the end to review the knowledge that has been taught
during the lesson
Slides Design:
• Colors:
- Maximum 5 colors on each slide
- Background color and word colors should be contrast
- Colors of other parts on the slide should fit well with the background and word colors
• Words:
- Avoid using too complicated fonts (such as brush, vni-script, vni-maria), use simple
ones (like Tahoma, Arial, Calibri)
- Mix wisely between CAPITAL and normal letters for contents
- Words should be big enough so that the people at the back row in class can still see
clearly (suggested sizes - >=36 for titles and 20 (best 24-28) for contents
• Effects:
- Avoid abusing the use of effects on slides as they make students confused
- Avoid using too catchy effects as they are not appropriate for the educational
environment.
- For Titles, apply one common effect across slides (some suggested Entrance effects
are: Boomerang, Compress, Rise up, Float, etc.). If the title is at the top of the slide,
there is no need to apply any effect (to avoid having a blank slide at the start)
- For contents, use Entrance effects such as Box, Wheel, etc.
- To save time and avoid boredom, set the duration for each effect being 0.5s to 1.50s
• Hyperlinks:
- For extra knowledge (not main contents of the lesson), use hyperlinks to slides or
other files so in case we don’t have enough time, we can skip these parts.
- If we hyperlink to a folder, when transferring the ppt lesson to another computer, we
must also copy that folder (disadvantage 1)
- If we apply hyperlink on a text (a word or a sentence, it will change the format of that
text, affecting its appearance (disadvantage 2). We should instead apply hyperlink on
a shape or picture as its format will be kept unchanged.