Standing Room Only: Creating Unforgettable Presentations

Standing Room Only: How to Create Unforgettable Presentations
David Jakes
METC 2010

Today…
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Biology matters

3.5 pounds or 1.6 kg
12 billion cells

3.5 pounds or 1.6 kg
12 billion cells
Fed by the optic and auditory nerves

Dual Processing: Visual and Auditory

Cognitive Load Theory
Intrinsic, Extraneous, and Germane

Recall Dupuit, Flow to fixed heads with recharge:
Note:
Recharge is a fixed flux and head/gradient will be calculated to accommodate that recharge - e.g. High recharge >> High heads
h1 and h2 are fixed heads and flux will be calculated to accommodate those heads - e.g. a high h1 will shift the divide to the left of the problem domain and produce large influx that joins the reachrge and discharges to the right, if h2 is very low, that influx will be even higher
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h1 h2
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Coherence Principle: People learn better when extraneous material is excluded rather than included.
Richard Mayer Multimedia Learning

Make it visual.

PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations
Bullet Points do!

“
“Why would you use words on the screen when they do just fine in your mouth?”
Seth Godin

Multimedia Principle: People learn better from words and pictures than from words alone.
Richard Mayer Multimedia Learning

Use images to communicate, not decorate…

65%
From Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina | See Multimodal Learning

Learn how to find images

Teach them about intellectual property…

Creative Commons

Stock photography

photl.com

Teach them design…

Adolescent Brain
More gray matter than white matter
Prefrontal cortex growing and developing
Brain continues to grow and matures by the age of 25
Teenage brain has a well-developed accelerator but only a partly developed break
New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls and 12 for boys

Adolescent Brain
More gray matter than white matter
Prefrontal Cortex
Brain grows and matures by 25
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Adolescent Brain
Teenage brain has a well-developed accelerator but only a partly developed break
New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls and 12 for boys
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Negative plasticity
Examine the worry circuitry in the brain
Limbic system
Thoughts have an impact on the brain
Get rid of the ANTS-kill them
Think of bad thoughts as air pollution
Exterminate the ants – get rid of always negative thinking

Negative Plasticity
Examine the worry circuitry
Limbic System
Thoughts have an impact on the brain
Get rid of the ANTS-negative thinking
Bad thoughts as air pollution

As a high school student have you had a positive ongoing relationship with at least one adult?
96% responded “Yes”

GBS Snapshot
From 1998 to 2008:
2261 to 2556 Total Students
25.13 to 26.89 Credits Taken
729 to 1145 AP Tests
81% to 90% Pass Rate for AP Tests
87.9% to 98.1 % College Bound

GBS Snapshot
From 1998 to 2008:
2261 to 2556 total students
25.13 to 26.89 credits taken
729 to 1145 AP Tests
81% to 90% pass rates of AP Tests
87.9% to 98.1% College Bound

4,333,182,081 images on Flickr
4 Years of Content on YouTube..every day
Waracle

Teach them to sell…

“Communication is the transfer of emotion…”
Seth Godin
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How many homeless?
Between 2.3 and 3.5 million are likely to experience being homeless in a year
1.35 million of them are children
200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night.
50% African-American, 35% White, 12% Latino, 2% Native American, 1% Asian

How many experience being homeless?
Between 2.3 and 3.5 million
1.35 million of them are children
200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night.
Image used with permission iamchrisjett

Teach them that color and font matter…

Of the 16 million colors…

This is a Serif Font
This is a Sans Serif Font

CAUTION: The use and application of Comic Sans in presentations is illegal in 34 states….

Teach
them to storyboard…

Teach them secrets…

Teach them to share

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Standing Room Only: Creating Unforgettable Presentations

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