Unpacking the Content of a PowerPoint

We often find that faculty have a lot of content stored in PowerPoint slides. This makes sense since it is a way to organize face-to-face courses around lecture and discussion. However, it is easy to get trapped within this slide approach and difficult to envision how the content might be pulled apart and delivered differently in an online course. If you find yourself in this position, take a look at your PowerPoint slides and ask yourself the following questions:

Do any of the slides convey contextual information that could placed as text on a Canvas page?

Is there material that deserves an explanation? Concepts you could illuminate with a story? If so that content might be best delivered via some sort of presentation: a video of your talking head; voice over slides; a screencast; or some other multimedia presentation.

Are there wordy, detailed slides or a succession of charts and tables that would really be better suited to a handout or a supporting document?

Could any of the information be included as part of a discussion?

Would students benefit from being responsible for supplying contextual or supplemental course content on a Canvas wiki page?