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PowerPoint Best Practices

PowerPoint Best Practices. Keeping it Simple. Why Use PowerPoint. Keeps you on track Professional look Often required by class Good for the future. Agenda. PowerPoint Tips Presentation Pointers Elluminate Specific Tips Questions and Answers. PowerPoint Tips. Keep it Simple.

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PowerPoint Best Practices

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  1. PowerPoint Best Practices Keeping it Simple

  2. Why Use PowerPoint • Keeps you on track • Professional look • Often required by class • Good for the future

  3. Agenda • PowerPoint Tips • Presentation Pointers • Elluminate Specific Tips • Questions and Answers

  4. PowerPoint Tips Keep it Simple

  5. Font/Text • Use simple fonts like Georgia or Verdana or Arial • Anything smaller than this (20pt) is probably too small • Keep the colors easy to read

  6. Pictures • Beware background pictures • Keep pictures simple

  7. Content • Bullet points, not walls of text • No more than 5-6 bullets • Balance between images/charts/graphs and text • Be consistent with punctuation

  8. Presentation Tips

  9. Best Practices • Use an agenda • Consider a handout • Don’t read from the slides • Engage the audience, both live and online • Set a good pace • Relax!

  10. Methods • Takahashi method • Few words • No pictures • Lessig method • Few words • Pictures • Kawasaki method • 10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 point font

  11. Elluminate

  12. Things to know • Importing slides • Animation won’t work • Picture backgrounds might not look as good • Links won’t work • Length of presentation • Give ITD your slides ahead of time • Elluminate Presentation Guide (http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/itdweb/Elluminate_Tutorial/presenters.html)

  13. Bad Examples

  14. Graphic novels carry many of the same benefits that urban/street literature does. It also contributes to the development of both verbal as well as visual literacy. “Visual learners are able to connect with graphic novels in a way that they cannot with text-only books” (Gorman, 2003). Reading graphic novels requires the development of a special type of visual literacy in which the reader “must fuse the images and the text in order to fully grasp the meaning of the story” (Gorman, 2003). This type of literacy will increase in importance as computers with graphical interfaces come to dominate more of our professional and recreational lives (Gorman, 2003). Urban/street literature, despite its often “graphic depictions of inner-city life, involving drugs, sexual exploits, domestic violence, incarceration, and death” , is valuable in an urban teen environment for a number of reasons. For one, characters and settings are often more recognizable to urban teens. For another it can promote “multiple literacy benefits for teen readers, such as enhanced critical analysis skills, the ability to make sociocultural connections between fiction and reality, appreciation for the collaborative writing process, and… the development of the reading habit” (Agosto, 2010).

  15. Homelessness & Libraries The information-seeking behaviors of homeless people are not well understood. Homeless people are economically impoverished, so access to the Internet is likely to be scarce, which, in turn, might lead to information poverty. Given this scarcity, how do homeless people get access to information? A homeless person is “1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and 2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is a) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations …; b) an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or; c) a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.” Respect for a homeless young person begets trust in a service provider, which begets the development of a contingent, caring relationship with an adult who can offer expert guidance and encouragement. The development of this relationship is hypothesized to be the key mechanism for guiding young people out of homelessness.

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  18. Keyword Interfaces

  19. Questions?

  20. Sources • http://www.cazh1.com/blogger/thoughts/2005/10/good-bad-and-ugly-of-powerpoint.shtml • http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/presentation_ideas_takahashi_kingsize_text_and_kawasaki_top10.php • http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/10/the_lessig_meth.html • http://lifehacker.com/5527035/use-the-102030-rule-to-avoid-disastrous-powerpoint-presentations

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