making your slide shows more effective
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Making Your Slide Shows More Effective. Backchannel for today: http://typewith.me/0PnPNlKNdp. Click in here to enter your name. Type your ideas here. I’ll call us back via the chat. What impact have the Internet and other technologies had on … . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
{Making Your Slide Shows More
Effective
Backchannel for today:http://typewith.me/0PnPNlKNdp
Click in here to enter your nameType your ideas here
I’ll call us back via the chat
What impact have the Internet and other technologies had on …
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K- 12 schools?
1. Why use presentation software?2. How does it impact the
audience?3. What can I do to make a slide
show effective for the audience?
Key Questions
A. All your main pointsB. Less than 50% of your
main pointsC. Less than 30% of your
main points
How much of your content should be in words on your slide?
A. The pictures on the slideB. The words on the slideC. What you say about the
slide
Adult audiences take away the most information from. . .
Boring if you miss
1. Motivation
2. Relevance
3. Opportunity for ongoing feedback
4. Opportune moment for application
• Deepen thinking – Typewith.me• Backchannel – TodaysMeet• Prediction – PollAnywhere
Not Boring - Tools
Confusing if you don’t
LayoutConsisten
cy
Order ideas
Instruction through
Design
Powerful Images
• Epitome exampleBig ideas to little – start with the over-arching theme
• It is more effective to use simple ideas first and then move to more complex ideas, because the audience will understand more.
• Relate to the familiar
Ordering Your Ideas
• Epitome example• Big ideas to little• Simple to complex• Relate to the familiar
Ordering Your Ideas
• Epitome exampleBig ideas to little – start with the over-arching theme
• It is more effective to use simple ideas first and then move to more complex ideas, because the audience will understand more.
• Relate to the familiar
Ordering Your Ideas
• Epitome example• Big ideas to little• Simple to complex• Relate to the familiar
Ordering Your Ideas
Text
3 to 5 rule
ReadabilityCoherence
• Perception (I sense it)• Comprehension (I figured it out)
The Power of a Picture
• Preattention• Attention• Cognition
Stages of Processing Graphics
• Improves concept retention• Shows visual and spatial relationships
• Organizes well (easier to remember)
• Motivates learners and promotes trust
Benefits of Graphics
• Abstract or complex visuals• Cognitive effort required to get complex visual
• Distracting or misleading learners• Not appropriate for every purpose
Problems with Graphics
Pictures and Video
Before, instead
ReadabilityCoherence
• Images First• 30% of the content• Chunking and white space• Order and Dominance
• Layout for Audience• Key ideas
Applying