Ilene D. Alexander alexa032@umn.ed @IleneDawn Christina I. Petersen pete6647@umn.edu @CIPetersenZ Center for Teaching and Learning Services @UMinnTeachLearn http://UMinnTILT.wordpress.com

1. Learning Presentations:
Moving from Template-based Technologies to Learner-focused Approaches
We introduce Learning Presentation design principles that incorporate theories of Adult Learning.
These presentation principles and approachescan be adapted by researchers, teachers,and students
for use inclassrooms, conferences,and communities, whether F2F, hybrid, or online environments.We
collaborate with participants by sharing knowledge and experience to create personalized strategies
for maximizing learning while using presentation platforms. For this showcase we draw on our work
with future faculty and current staff to demonstrate Learning Presentations as scaffolds for
showcasing ideas, guiding learning, and engaging learners.
Goals
Presenters will:
Displayhow message choices influence presentation platform selection, decisions about
presentation format and audience learning.
Diagram the components of message, audience, learning to inform presentation choice-
making.
Showcase three customizable presentation approaches: Learning 3x3s, Presentation Slams
and Academic PechaKuchas.
Participants will:
Discuss design elements that enhance audience learning, which will require only a little
experience in presenting or in teaching.
Build a sample presentation from a curated collection of resources, which will require only
basic web and presentation software skills.
Presenters
Ilene D. Alexanderalexa032@umn.ed@IleneDawn
Christina I. Petersenpete6647@umn.edu@CIPetersenZ
Center for Teaching and Learning Services
CTL Twitter - @UMinnTeachLearn
CTL blog - http://UMinnTILT.wordpress.com
CTL slides -http://slideshare.net/UMinnTeachLearn

2. Learning Presentations: Ten Framing Principles
Scaffold
• Learning - Consider the ways in which your audience members might best learn.
• Design - Begin with design, then continue to incorporate design as content.
• Story - Use story to provide context and organize your facts.
Connect
• Play - Laughing people are more creative people.
• Feeling - Invoke emotion and invite audience members to connect thinking and feeling responses,
cognitive and affective learning.
• Meaning - Convey core idea / central concern, even passion in your presentation: use this opportunity
to make a small difference in the world.
• Symphony - Integrate all elements of your presentation to shape the big picture. Seek ways to
illuminate logic, analysis, and intuition as part of setting out idea or topic. Design to acknowledge
audience members’ thinking and feeling responses / cognitive and affective learning modes.
Extend
• Acknowledge - Acknowledge the origins of your presentation elements, contributors of ideas and
images, and the role of audience members as co-creators of meaning as you interact with them.
Acknowledge the presentation itself is not the main learning tool.
• Ownership - Own your presentation approach: don’t be owned by the presentation software or
what prevails as a “normal” presentation. Own what will evoke and support learning.
• Openness - Remain open to change, and remain committed to sharing what you create as an open
educational resource.
Learning Presentations: We draw upon the concepts of
Garr Reynolds. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design & Delivery. 2008
Daniel Pink. A Whole New Mind. 2006.

4. LearningPresentations: Resources
Basics Reconsidered, and More
PowerPoint – In the Classroom An Online Tutorial
http://www.actden.com/pp/
Penn State Site onRethinking Design of Presentation Slides
http://writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html
PechaKucha – Guide to Better Presentations Skills
http://aqworks.com/en/blog/2007/07/03/pecha-kucha-nights-guide-to-better-presentations-skills/
Ignite – The Fastest Way to Create an Ignite Presentation
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/content/fast-ignite-presentation/
PowerPoint – 40+ Tips for awesome PowerPoint presentations
http://flirtingwelearning.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/40-tips-for-awesome-powerpoint-
presentations/
Finding Images and Choosing Good Images
What Makes an Image Good for Presentations?
Part I – http://www.powerpointninja.com/graphics/what-makes-an-image-good-for-
presentations-part-i/
Part 2 – http://www.powerpointninja.com/graphics/what-makes-an-image-good-for-
presentations-part-ii/
Creative Commons Search across a variety of platforms (Flickr, Google images,
YouTube)http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/?beta=1&q=
Flickr photo sharing site – Creative Commons pages http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Attribution, Non-Commercial: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-2.0/
Attribution, Non-Comm, ShareAlike: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-sa-2.0/
Attribution, ShareAlike: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/
Everystock.com – http://www.everystockphoto.com/
Compfight.com – "artsy" images http://compfight.com/
How Does Creative Commons Work?
CreativeCommons basics - http://vimeo.com/25684782
How to attribution photo credit - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49395
Where All the Purty Pictures Come From? - http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/where-all-
the-purty-pictures-come-from-flickr-creative-commons/22778
Creating Accessible Resources
UMinn Accessibility site on Presentations - http://accessibility.umn.edu/presentations.html
North Carolina on accessible PowerPoint - http://oit.ncsu.edu/itaccess/microsoft-powerpoint
Learning Presentations: Our Documents
Materials Created by Ilene D. Alexander and Christina I. Petersen
shared viahttp://www.slideshare.net/UMinnTeachLearn