Simple steps to enhance those text heavy presentations and use more purposeful visuals on your slides! Content from Nancy Duarte's book "Slide:ology - The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations".
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Reduce Text on Slides with Mnemonics
1. REDUCING TEXT ON A SLIDE!
C O N T E N T F R O M T H E B O O K
S L I D E : O L O G Y - T H E A R T A N D S C I E N C E O F C R E A T I N G
G R E A T P R E S E N T A T I O N S
B Y N A N C Y D U A R T E
S L I D E S C R E A T E D B Y I I D A H O K K A N E N
2. LEARNING TO RIDE
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and a helmet to protect yourself!
• Remove training wheels and practice falling on grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go!
Step 1: Select a slide that has too
many words on it.
3. LEARNING TO RIDE
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and a helmet to protect yourself!
• Remove training wheels and practice falling on grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go!
Step 2: Highlight a key word from
every bullet and memorize the text.
4. LEARNING TO RIDE
• Training wheels
• Wobble
• Clothing
• Practice falling
• Enjoy and GO!
Step 3: Remove all other words
leaving just the keywords as
mnemonics and add an image