24. Water Water is made up of 2 parts hydrogen and one part oxygen Water can be found in three forms Liquid Gas Solid The human body is made up of about 55-65% water
32. The Message During the time in which I am reading this to you Your brain is attempting to process my voice Your eyes are interpreting this text Your brain is converting the textual graphics into letters and words Which makes processing this information much more difficult
33. It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you both visually and in written form, simultaneously- John Sweller
34. So the questions we have to ask as presenters and as an audience
58. Images Obtained From http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons http://commons.wikimedia.org/ http://www.sxc.hu/ http://www.istockphoto.com/ All other images are from my personal library
Editor's Notes
Get picture of cave paintings and smoke signals
Get photos of TV, computer screen, magazine, movie
Insert jet plane vs. prop plane
Insert picture of walking vs. flying a jet plane
Show series of similar images in different colors and in black and white
Emphasize that
Shows images of beauty and despair. Sunsets, hurricane damage, a baby, food, and a cemetary
Needs simplification
Go through a series of images that of poor quality
Get images that have nothing to do with the subject
Get images that are low res, poor quality, design bad slides with bad color schemes, text too small, too much text,
Cognitive Load Theory
Find picture of presenter looking at slides
Present three different short scenarios in which slides are well designed with appropriate amount of text, even use color. Talk about direct and indirect Emphasize that without the presenter the slides will have much less meaning
Get photos of powerpoint rules such as 1-7-7 (one main idea per slide, 7 lines of text, 7 words per line or 6 lines per slide and 6 words per line)
Picture of hitting a bullseye
Image should be a clean clear glass of water.Simplicity means careful reduction of the non-essentials and not being too simple
Add image of person with camera since they can take their own photos
Getting the message out/disseminating the information