Are you guilty of using the same slide deck, year after year for your teaching? Have you sat through presentations that are not only ugly, but confusing? Poorly designed slides can affect your audience’s attention as well as their ability to learn. Join Andrea Denton and Kimberley Barker as they outline the basics of learner-centered design, share examples of well-designed presentations, and introduce you to tools and resources which will make creating beautiful, well-organized PowerPoint presentations as easy as clicking your mouse.
3. Today we’ll learn…
• Basic tips for good presentation design
• Use of imagery and resources for images
• A few practices for data presentation
• Strategies for working with templates
4. Speaking of design
• Presentation design and interior design
• Rules
• Personal expression
9. Use bullets as talking points
• Slides aren’t documents aka “slideuments”
• Slides shouldn’t be your teleprompter
Duarte, p. 7
10. The audience will either read your
slides or listen to you.
They will not do both.
So, ask yourself this: is it more
important that they listen, or more
effective if they read?
Duarte, p. 7
11. To keep bullets brief
• No sentences
• Two lines per bullet (?)
• Four bullets per slide (?)
• It’s OK to go on to the next slide!
• Think headlines
Duarte, p. 150; Kosslyn p.
12. Learning to Ride
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and helmet to protect yourself
• Remove the training wheels and practice falling on
the grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go
Duarte, p. 222
13. Learning to Ride
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and helmet to protect yourself
• Remove the training wheels and practice falling on
the grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go
Duarte, p. 222
16. Rudolph in action
• A PowerPoint feature
• That’s actually helpful!
• Focuses attention
• On what and when
Kosslyn (Martians)
Use PowerPoint’s Animation feature, and Effect Options.
Choose After Animation to Hide or Dim
26. Imagery: fonts as images
Fonts create different moods,
and also evoke different feelings.
Do you see what I mean?
How does this font make you
feel?
How about this one?
27. Fonts as fonts
• Safe fonts
• 40+ fonts commonly installed in PowerPoint
• Show correctly on any computer and version of PPT
• Some newer options
• Calibri “casual”
• Cambria “sturdy”
• Candara “curvy”
• Fonts designed for the screen
• Verdana (but don’t use for blocks of text)
• Georgia
http://presentitude.com/fonts/
28. Color
• Consider choosing a color palette
• Unifies
• Conveys mood
• Color interruption draws attention
Duarte, p. 7
46. Working within a template
http://presentitude.com/10-ways-avoid-death-bullet-points/
47. • Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are the most effective
products for reducing the number of germs on the
hands of healthcare providers. Antiseptic soaps and
detergents are the next most effective and non-
antimicrobial soaps are the least effective.
• When hands are not visibly dirty, alcohol-based hand
sanitizers are the preferred method for cleaning your
hands in the healthcare setting.
• Soap and water are recommended for cleaning visibly
dirty hands.
Methods for hand hygiene
49. Soap and water are
recommended for
cleaning visibly dirty
hands
50. Soap and water are recommended
for cleaning visibly dirty hands.
51. No Dirt?
When hands are not
visibly dirty, alcohol-
based hand sanitizers
are the preferred
method for cleaning
your hands in the
healthcare setting
55. Resources
• Data Visualization 101: how to design charts and graphs
https://visage.co/content/data-visualization-101/
• Duarte, Nancy. Slide:ology : the art and science of creating great
presentations. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2008.
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u4824098
• Kosslyn SM, Kievit RA, Russell AG, Shephard JM. PowerPoint(®)
Presentation Flaws and Failures: A Psychological Analysis. Front Psychol.
2012 Jul 17;3:230. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00230. eCollection 2012.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822402
• Kosslyn, SM. PowerPoint for Martians?
http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/powerpoint/
• Rowh, Mark. Power up your PowerPoint: seven research-backed tips for
effective presentations.
www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/01/presentationas.aspx
• 10 ways to avoid death by bullet points
http://presentitude.com/10-ways-avoid-death-bullet-points/
56. Additional Readings
• Duke University Libraries Introduction to Data
Visualization: Chart Dos and Don'ts
57. Credits
• Slide 51: Clean hands by Arlington County on Flickr
• Slide 52: Liquid soap by Nick Novell from the Noun
Project
