Improving Your Use of Presentation Software: A Flashight Resource

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Ever heard the phrase "Death by PowerPoint?"  Simply using high tech presentations is no guarantee that learning will improve.  This Flashlight Evaluation Handbook chapter will help you think about how to design effective instructional presentations and, more importantly, how to use feedback from your own students about your own presentations in order to improve your skills and content.  Click here to see materials for a faculty workshop on how to get feedback from your own students in order to improve future lecture presentation materials.

  1. This introductory section
  2. For better or worse: using presentation software.
  3. Using a Flashlight Online template to design your feedback survey
  4. Materials for brief workshop to help faculty learn to use this item bank: Asking the Right Questions (ARQ) workshop
  5. Sample surveys from Mount Royal College, using the Flashlight Online 1.0 item bank
    * Sample survey for English 2201
    * Sample survey (biology course)
  6. Designing Your Study (Q&A)

This study package is indexed on MERLOT. After you use the package, we would appreciate it if you would submit a peer review to MERLOT, describing its strengths and weaknesses.

Acknowledgements: The Flashlight Program and The TLT Group are deeply grateful to our subscribing institutions for their support, and to a grant from Microsoft Corporation, some of which was used to develop this package.  We are also extremely grateful to Mount Royal College of Calgary, Canada -- specifically to Patricia M. Derbyshire of the Office of Institutional Analysis and Planning, Henri Garand of the Department of English, and Michael Pollack of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Sciences who created much of the material in this package. The original prototype materials were developed by Stephen C. Ehrmann of The TLT Group and Gary Brown of Washington State University.

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