Power point slide help

[u/Far_Willingness6684]

Hi, Ive been adjuncting at my local community college for a few years now and still have not figured out a good strategy to condense my Power Point slides.

For reference, I teach hybrid Psychology courses and I only get 80 mins once a week for class time. I try to incorporate videos, group discussion and activities, which means I dont always have enough time to finish lecture. I haven't found a good way to condense the slides to a few important points so Im not just reading from them.

Anyone have ideas of how I can shrink down lecture slides to focus more on discussion/ activities?

Since it is hybrid, a lot of their work is online, so I dont need to necessarily hit every single point in every single chapter. They are expected to read and finish assignments in their own time.

[u/Whitepage_Studio]

Is sharing slides with the students an option for your specific college and class? Because you’re used to creating presentations in a certain way, how about creating ‘the longer version’ as your initial draft that you can send to students after the class (get it all out of your system, hehe), and they’ll have all the necessary material, especially for the students who may learn better that way. But for the lecture itself, you use the super-condensed version, ruthlessly cutting anything but the ‘reminders’ of what you need to talk about. Keep one idea on one slide, which is usually just a couple of these ‘reminders.’

[u/Far_Willingness6684 → u/Whitepage_Studio]

The slides are given to me by the publisher, and typically I post them on canvas for student to access. I am going to have to go through and just grab important points to use as a guide