PowerPoint Rubrics
Yesterday,
I spoke of the power of the PowerPoint Evaluation...the kind you give to yourself while you're presenting. Today, I'll use a term that's gaining in popularity among educators:
the PowerPoint Rubric.
Rubric is an unusual, maybe unheard of word in business. People in business often glibly call rubrics "
best practices" (score another one for
Buzzword Bingo!). The dictionary says that "rubric" means "
authoritative rule". The word has its origins in the Middle English word
rubrike or red ocher -- the color used for the heading in red letters in parts of books.
Big, Bold, Red Letters: you just don't see that too often in books any more! But you see it frequently in PowerPoint presentations.....
Anyway....whether you're an educator that is looking for a PowerPoint rubric to grade student presentations, or a business person looking to evaluate presentation best practices... I would like to suggest visiting the
University of Wisconsin's A+ Rubric for evaluating PowerPoint presentations.
This simple grid outlines important elements of the PowerPoint presentation. If you're an educator, it's a helpful tool for grading. If you're in business, it's a helpful tool for evaluating what's really important in a presentation.
Of course, there are other rubrics: and many I've seen online are pretty awful. They seem to place a high priority on using every one of PowerPoint's bells and whistles within a 15 minute presentation, instead of connecting with the people in the audience.
So let me ask you this:
what's the best PowerPoint Rubric you've ever used or seen? What elements might you want to see in your ideal rubric?
Here's a list of some of the better
PowerPoint Rubric resources I've found on the 'net.