P OWER P OINT B EST P RACTICES Keeping it Simple

W HY U SE P OWER P OINT Keeps you on track Professional look Often required by class Good for the future

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P OWER P OINT T IPS Keep it Simple

F ONT /T EXT Use simple fonts like Georgia or Verdana or Arial Anything smaller than this (20pt) is probably too small Keep the colors easy to read

P ICTURES Beware background pictures Keep pictures simple

C ONTENT Bullet points, not walls of text No more than 5-6 bullets Balance between images/charts/graphs and text Be consistent with punctuation

P RESENTATION T IPS

B EST P RACTICES Use an agenda Consider a handout Don’t read from the slides Engage the audience, both live and online Set a good pace Relax!

M ETHODS Takahashi method Few words No pictures Lessig method Few words Pictures Kawasaki method 10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 point font

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Graphic novels carry many of the same benefits that urban/street literature does. It also contributes to the development of both verbal as well as visual literacy. “Visual learners are able to connect with graphic novels in a way that they cannot with text- only books” (Gorman, 2003). Reading graphic novels requires the development of a special type of visual literacy in which the reader “must fuse the images and the text in order to fully grasp the meaning of the story” (Gorman, 2003). This type of literacy will increase in importance as computers with graphical interfaces come to dominate more of our professional and recreational lives (Gorman, 2003). Urban/street literature, despite its often “graphic depictions of inner-city life, involving drugs, sexual exploits, domestic violence, incarceration, and death”, is valuable in an urban teen environment for a number of reasons. For one, characters and settings are often more recognizable to urban teens. For another it can promote “multiple literacy benefits for teen readers, such as enhanced critical analysis skills, the ability to make sociocultural connections between fiction and reality, appreciation for the collaborative writing process, and… the development of the reading habit” (Agosto, 2010).

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