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Putting Together More Powerful PowerPoint Presentations! Courtney Mlinar Fall 2008

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PowerPoint presentations can be more effective by following basic web design usability principles.

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Putting Together

More Powerful

PowerPointPresentations!Courtney Mlinar Fall 2008

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Don’t focus on

Technology

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Focus on

Learning

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Wired Generation:

Constantly Connected

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Left brain + right brain

Visual +

Verbal

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Title = Headline

Main Idea

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Tell a Story

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Avoid Overload

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Example:Teeny-Weeny Text All Over the Slide!

• An essential component of facilitating learning is understanding learners.

• Learning styles, attitudes, approaches of your audience vary greatly.

• Take these differences into account when designing courses or presentations.

• Doing is more important than knowing.• Find new ways to meet student’s needs for

service, immediacy, interactivity.• Balance the entertainment interests of your

audience with their educational needs.

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Understand Learning:

•Style

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Understand Learning:

•Style

•Attitude

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Understand Learning

•Style

•Attitude

•Approach

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Audience Needs:

•Service

•Immediacy

•Interactivity

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Bite-sized Pieces

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Too Big of a Bite =

too much information

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(Move Text Off-Screen)

Narrate

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Text Alone

Is

Not

Sufficient

All the time!

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Use Words

And

Pictures

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Or

Use

Pictures

Alone:

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Or

Use

Text

As

Pictures:

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Who am I?

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Over 21

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Under 65

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What I Like:

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Remove

Everything

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That does not support

The

Message

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Use Contrast:

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Text:

•Specific

•Simple

•Easy to Read

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Voice

•Active

•Informal

•First Person

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Bullets

•Easy to Read

•Emphasize Points

•Concise List

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Break Text into Multiple Pages

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Choose Font that Speaks:

ArialGoudy Stout

chick

At Least 32-point type size

Palatino

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Less is More

Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying!

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Remember your audience:

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Special

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Pressured

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Sheltered

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Informal

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Curious

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Appreciate you