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

Know Your Audience Slide 4 –Age –What do they already know about the topic –Reasons they’re attending

Content Decide what topics you will include

Visual Aids Slide 6 Must relate to the slide topic Help listeners understand the message Makes your presentation more interesting

ONE Idea Per Slide Slide 7 Main ideas only. Limit the amount of text!

Text Size Make it Big : ◦This is Arial 12 ◦This is Arial 18 ◦This is Arial 24 ◦This is Arial 32 ◦This is Arial 36 ◦This is Arial 44 Too Small

How to Estimate 2 m

Make Text Clear & large enough people can see it easily

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

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 A process involving people, tools, and Procedures for solutions to problems in learning (HMRS 5th ed.) Instructional Technology:

Keep Graphics Simple Too many Graphics and Animations may distract your audience

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

Fonts Serif Z busy clear Sans Serif Z

Fonts ◦ 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

Contrast Use dark colors on light backgrounds Use light colors on dark backgrounds

Focal Points Focal points direct 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 Swimming Lacrosse Soccer Dark on dark. Can’t read the text

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY 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. Too many words Snoresville.

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

Keep Graphics Simple

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