Creating Powerful Presentations
Wednesday, August 18 • 8:30-11:30 A.M.
Laura Montgomery
Be a powerful presenter. Learn about a variety of ways to polish the presentations you make—in the classroom, for parents, and for your professional groups. Attention to good design principles and visual literacy concepts will be addressed. Programs like PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Docs, and a host of other free online presentation tools will be explored.
Image Attribution: http://www.banffcentre.ca/conferences/creative_team_options/powerful/
Image Attribution: http://www.banffcentre.ca/conferences/creative_team_options/powerful/
Power in Pictures: A word or two about Visual Literacy
"Because of television, advertising and the internet, the primary literacy of the 21st Century is visual. It's no longer enough to read and write text. Out students must learn to process both words and pictures. To be visually literate, the must learn to "read" (consume/interpret) images and "write" (produce/use) visually rich communications. They must be able to move gracefully and fluently between text and images, between literal and figurative worlds." -- Lynette Burmark
(for the full text of her article and references for the highlights listed on this page, click on the file)
(for the full text of her article and references for the highlights listed on this page, click on the file)
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Highlights of the Burmark article:
Why are images so powerful? Simply put, our brains are wired for it. Think about the following:
Why are images so powerful? Simply put, our brains are wired for it. Think about the following:
- Research from 3M Corporation indicates that humans process visuals 60,000 faster than text.
- Words by their very nature are sequential, like a string of letters typed on a keyboard. On the other hand, images are simultaneous--everyone becomes part of the picture at the same time.
- images are stored in long-term memory
- medical researchers (Rakes, 1999) have been able to demonstrate that different areas of the brain become more active when individuals are exposed to verbal and visual information. So, rather than using pictures to "decorate" text, they can support dual coding and in turn increase comprehension
- we can use images and video to break down the walls of the classroom and take our students places they've never seen before.
- visually rich presentations draw students in and be more engaging.
- images are stored in long-term memory and when dual-coded with text, can increase comprehension
- increase willingness to read by up to 80%
- can increase motivation and participation by up to 80%
- enhances learning and improves retention by more than 75% ("The Power of Color," 2007)
- impacts comprehension and recall (time to sort documents improved up to 15%, time to locate a target word within a document improved up to 74%, accuracy of comprehension up to 77%)
- Yellow text (on blue background) is the best color to use in PowerPoint slides.
Making the BEST of PowerPoint
"Life after Death by PowerPoint" A humorous look at what NOT to do when creating a PowerPoint presentation.
PowerPoint Tutorials from Atomic Learning: There are instructions many versions, for Mac or PC!
Want more of the basics about PowerPoint? Visit Laurie Brown's page from another Tech Camp session. She has templates for an Open House/Curriculum Night Presentation and PPT Guidelines.
Keynote = PowerPoint for the Mac
Google-Powered Online Presentations
Did you know? Google gives Educators a multitude of tools to flex their presentation muscles...and all FREE! Let's give Google Docs a try and see how their presentation tool is different from the others...and how you can harness the power of online collaboration for a new experience.
Click on the Google logo to learn more...
Click on the Google logo to learn more...
Powerful Tools from Web 2.0
The POWER behind Web 2.0 (The Read-Write Web) is the ability to SHARE. This document you see below was created by a teacher named Michael Zimmer. He is a technology integration specialist in Western Kentucky. In my ongoing quest for finding new resources, I came across this presentation and am now happy to pass along to you! This is the impetus for sharing new FREE online tools for creating powerful presentations.
Just when you thought you've learned about them all....
Someone comes along and creates a NEW, amazingly POWERFUL "all-in-one" tool for:
- mind-mapping
- comic creator
- video editor
- audio editor