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Design Principles Notes

This document provides guidance on creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It discusses several key concepts: 1) The purpose of PowerPoint should be to enhance content for the audience rather than distract from it with unnecessary visual effects or noise. 2) Pictures and visuals can help audiences better understand and retain information compared to text alone, as long as they are relevant to the content. 3) Effective design principles like balance, symmetry, the rule of thirds, contrast, repetition and alignment help direct audience attention and create visual cohesion. Templates should be avoided if they become too repetitive or distracting rather than enhancing the message. Engaging the audience and making the content stick requires simplicity, concrete examples, credibility

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Design Principles Notes

This document provides guidance on creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It discusses several key concepts: 1) The purpose of PowerPoint should be to enhance content for the audience rather than distract from it with unnecessary visual effects or noise. 2) Pictures and visuals can help audiences better understand and retain information compared to text alone, as long as they are relevant to the content. 3) Effective design principles like balance, symmetry, the rule of thirds, contrast, repetition and alignment help direct audience attention and create visual cohesion. Templates should be avoided if they become too repetitive or distracting rather than enhancing the message. Engaging the audience and making the content stick requires simplicity, concrete examples, credibility

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Powerful Presentations

High Expectations for Student PowerPoints

What is the PURPOSE of PowerPoint?

Tod Lokey
Technology Facilitator

March 19, 2008

Introductory Slide Just change your name and use to your (students) advantage! -Tod Bibliography Reynolds, Garr. 2008. Presentation Zen. Simple ideas on presentation design and delivery. Berkely, CA: New Riders.

The PP style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content Edward Taft (10) The use of the PP presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched. John Sweller (12) Purpose of this time will be to explore what to expect from student PPs, how to support it, and to alter our view of this wonderful program.

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1st concept is SIGNAL VS NOISE RATION or SNR. What is distracting about this slide? NOISE

Ask yourself the opposite question What are you drawn to in this picture? SIGNAL Ive purposely added a colorful image that is not distractive. Font weight NOTE: Hold off on talking about gradients, because it will examined again later in the presentation.

The graphic ultimately does more harm than good.

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If the AUDIENCE could remember only one thing, what would it be?

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Without a title, do you know what this is about? --> PICTURE SUPERIORITY EFFECT

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Presentations are more about the audience than you think OBSERVE

How would you communicate this with numbers? Students comprehend the same with words as they do pictures, but they retain much more with pictures (even 30 minutes later).

Oneself Ones situation Others The environment Q: How many of us are tired of the same PP templates?

BALANCE
Where do your eyes go?

SYMMETRY

EMPTY SPACE negative or white space, where the picture or objects are NOT Directs the viewers eye, brings clarity Concept 1 BALANCE Not passive but active (148) Viewer should not have to think about where to look (148)

Concept 2 - SYMMETRY & ASYMMETRY Symmetry Centered on central vertical axis Formatliy & stability Asymmetry Activates empty space More interesting Informal & dynamic (conforms to graphics better) Mix both of these concepts Q: So how do templates fit into this?
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The Rule of Thirds

CONTRAST
What attracts your interest?

Concept 3 Rule of Thirds Power Points are the four locations set by dividing hor and vert into thirds Consider putting points of emphasis here (asymmetrical)

Concept 4 - THE BIG FOUR (1)CONTRAST = difference Get the design Strong contrast = attract interest dark or dark on light Light on

Think COLOR, FONT, FONT SIZE, CASE, TIMING

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What small contrast is this slide missing from the first time that you saw it? Slight, but do you notice?

GRADIENT - Another small and EASY example of contrast

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What makes a message STICK

Engaged Learners Meeting the demands of todays learners Presentations where students engage each other in sharing their knowledge Your Class Name Here

Have you seen this before? (2) REPETITION = reusing material throughout your presentation design Unity, consistency and cohesion Part of a larger whole (155) Templates do a lot of this, but they lose their impact after just a few slide, ie too much = NOISE Q: What makes a message stick?
Simplicity (not dumbed down) Unexpectedness Concreteness real examples Credibility context + meaning Emotion images, relations Stories no memorized script
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(3) ALIGNMENT = unity among elements in a single slide (157) Q: Consider what we can do with this slide by visually connecting each line of text, and then adding contrast by line, color, and background.

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Engaged Learners
Meeting the demands of todays learners

Heard of TEACHERTUBE ?

Did you know? 2.0


Presentations where students engage each other in sharing their knowledge
Your Class Name Here

Shift Happens

(3) ALIGNMENT = unity among elements in a single slide (157) Every element is connected visually via an invisible line (157) (4) PROXIMITY = moving closer or further to achieve a more organized look Grouping text to draw eye to different parts in chunks (1st2ndetc.)

There are two options for showing great slideshows (thought provoking) that are provided safely on TeacherTube (no login necessary). Did you know? 2.0 is by Karl Fisch (http://fischbowl.blogspot.com) Shift Happens is by Jeff Brenman, Founder and CEO of Apollo Ideas (www.apolloideas.com) **Only necessary to watch 2-3 minutes of one of these videos.
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