6. Visuals
• Use eye-catching AND appropriate images
• Pair images with visible and legible text
• If possible, use CC or Public Domain
images (or your own!) and give credit
where due
– Flickr , Google Image search tools,
Wikimedia
• Videos
– download them locally (add ons) and
embed in presentation
“Circular logic” by Kevin Dooley (2013). Used under CC license.
How do you want to design the slides and the presentation itself?
Themes?
Avoid jargon.
Make sure that your give your audience sign posts. Help them to follow along. Don’t assume that they can read your slide and listen to you at the same time. Research has shown that very, very few people are true multi-taskers.
Look for cues. Are they paying attention? Are they squinting? etc. Other signs you’ve lost your audience?
Limit the text, keep it simple. Slides should have minimal text.
You can’t fit the content of a term paper onto the slides for a 15 minute presentation
What’s wrong with this slide?
Too much text, too busy, small text, too many ideas No-no.
Stick to one idea per slide!!!
Powerpoint gets a bad wrap, because so many people use it poorly, but it’s actually a really robust presentation tool. Simple, easy to use, and allows for quite a bit of flexibility.
Transitions
Animations
Embedded media
-You’ll be tempted to use their templates – these can look dated, lazy
-Learn design techniques
Share them publically with Slideshare
Interactive, saved to the cloud.
Can also embed media.
Fairly high learning curve to make effective presentations
Be careful, it can cause motion sickness.
Simple, beautiful, linear- Free
Limitations built into the platform to ensure you stick to one idea, and feature the images prominently over text. Focuses on images, and doesn’t embed other media.
Cloud based, encourages sharing,
A design site that allows you to make visually appealing images for presentations, icons, FB/Twitter headers, blogs, fliers, etc. Allows you to make slides that are then imported into Powerpoint, Keynote, or Slideshare for familiar presentation formats.