Revising+PowerPoint

=25 Awesome Free Stock Photo sites= = = =Death by Power Point= media type="custom" key="4530476" Day 1: Read Edward Tufte's article //Power Point is Evil// (written a few years back), then login to this wiki, click on the discussion tab and write a paragraph of your thoughts on what he wrote. Think about why I am having us revise Power Point. Think about boring student Power Points you have had to sit through, present, put together. Did it enhance your knowledge? Did it require you to think? Did you employ cut and paste often?

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There are many ways to create a PowerPoint presentation effectively. We will be looking at this this semester to improve how you present in class:

First let's learn the [|Overview and] [|basics]

You can use **Copyright Friendly Images pathfinder** , Ms. Valenza's **Image Generator Pathfinder** , and to [|**Flickr's Creative Commons Pool**] . You can also use [|istockphoto] (Remember to search for images conceptually rather than literally. For interest, what images would photographers tag to represent "lonely"or "cold"? )

Legal Free Media/Image/Music Downloads at [|Creative Commons] Use [|rhetorical devices].

__Adapted from__: Valenza, Joyce. "PowerPoint Reform: a first chapter." Web log post. //School Library Journal//. Reed Business Information, 20 Jan. 2008. Web. 8 Oct. 2009. . =__The "Do My Slides Stink?" Test __= (*orginal [|post] here)

1) Do your slides contain mostly bullet points? 2) Do you have more than 12-15 words on a slide? 3) Do your slides add little or no new info beyond what you can say in words? 4) Are your slides, in fact, //not memorable//? 5) Are your slides emotionally empty? 6) Do your slides fail to encourage a deeper connection to or understanding of the topic? 7) Do your slides distort the data?

A "Yes" to //any// of those could be a huge red flag that something's wrong. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other resources: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Presentation Zen] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Extreme Makeover] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Google Presentation]