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Slide shows give the audience something to look at during a presentation.

Before you even open your presentation software…

Know Your Audience Age What do they already know about the topic Reasons they are attending Slide 5

Content Decide what topics you will include

Visual Aids Must relate to the slide topic Help listeners understand the message Makes your presentation more interesting Slide 7

ONE Idea Per Slide Main ideas only. Limit the amount of text! Slide 8

Text Size This is Arial 44 Make it Big : This is Arial 36 Too Small

How to Estimate 2 m

Make Text Clear & large enough people can see it easily

Fonts clear busy Sans Serif Z Serif Z

Fonts San serif fonts are clearer Serif fonts are difficult to read on screen San serif fonts are clearer Italics are difficult to read on screen Normal or bold fonts are clearer

Contrasting colors Use dark colors on light backgrounds Use light colors on dark backgrounds

Do NOT Use: Too many colors Too Many Fonts and Styles Too many words Main ideas or key points only

Capitalization ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ARE DIFFICULT TO READ-THEY ALSO REPRESENT SHOUTING Upper and lower case letters are easier to read

Too Much Text Instructional Technology: A complex integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems in situations in which learning is purposive and controlled. (HMRS 5th ed.)

Be Concise Instructional Technology: A process involving people, tools, and Procedures for solutions to problems in learning (HMRS 5th ed.) This says the same thing as the paragraph on the other slide but in a more concise way.

Graphics Too many Graphics and Animations may distract your audience.

Balance Balance your slide. Don’t put everything on one side Leave some white space.

Focal Points Focal points direct the viewers attention

Be Consistent Differences draw attention Differences may imply importance Use surprises to attract not distract This implies importance

Be Consistent Differences draw attention Differences may imply importance Use surprises to attract not distract Too many differences may confuse.

Be Consistent Differences draw attention Differences may imply importance Use surprises to attract not distract This surprise attracts

Be Consistent Differences draw attention Differences may imply importance Use surprises to attract not distract Too many distract!

The following slides are examples of what NOT to do

Sports Dark on dark. Can’t read the text Swimming Lacrosse Soccer

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY Too many words Snoresville. 1. LOCATION Absolute- describes an object's location, relative to Earth. For instance, latitude and longitude coordinates are an example of Absolute Location. Relative location is more general and can be used relative to the surroundings of the object. Relative-where it is in relation to another place. Ex: Riverton is southwest of Salt Lake. Utah is northeast of California and west of Colorado. 2. PLACE A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. Physical-natural features of earth, such as landforms, bodies of water, temp. Cultural-everything that is involved in the people’s way of life; gov’t, language, religion, customs, beliefs. 3. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How humans use and change their environment and the consequences of these changes. 4. MOVEMENT Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America? 5. REGIONS How places are alike and different. Ex: political regions, physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, language.

Animals Don’t Animate everything on the slide There are many kinds of animals in this world Some are wild. Some are kept as pets. Some, sadly, are slaughtered

Too Many Pictures

GWAM GWAM stand for Gross Words a Minute Too much empty space.