2. Best Practices with PowerPoint

3. Heard of Edward Tufte?

5. Too much text “Shiny Objects” Pitfalls of PowerPoint

6. Overview of Presentation What is NSSE? What is student “engagement”? How does engagement connect to “student success”? What are the primary respondent characteristics? How do we compare against ourselves in 2004? How do we compare against 2 benchmark groups: ∙Carnegie Classification institutions ∙Public Research Universities

7. NSSE Student “Engagement” Significance Characteristics SDSU Standing Outline

8. Template Galleries Transitions Animations “Shiny objects”

9. Transition Overuse Didn’t that look cool!

10. Transition Overuse That was even better!

11. Transition Overuse Do I have to pick just one?

12. Animation Overuse

13. What is the name of our galaxy?

14. Participate in a research project as an undergraduate Show associated with success in graduate school Improve professional advancement (Author et al. 2000; Author and Principal 2001) Suggest most undergraduates not participate in research projects from freshman year SDSU is “America’s #1 Small Research University” Study why students party Helpful undergraduates are very few, and those that do focus almost exclusively on academic successHelpful undergraduates are very few, and those that do focus almost exclusively on academic success ∙Where to we go from here? Read this: it’s very important!

15. Choose natural, intuitive colors ∙Not software defaults Match PPT color scheme ∙You can change colors in Excel Colors

16. Good color palettes Dark neutral backgrounds ∙Navy blue, deep green, or black Contrasting colors highlight ∙Pale yellow, orange, red

18. Respondent Characteristics

20. Images! Glance and get Light on dark 6 bullets max (no wrapping) Best practices

22. Stand alone presentations ∙Add audio ∙Create a movie ∙Create an interactive experience Online Implementation

23. Prezi at prezi.com ∙FREE Educational license ∙Demo Alternatives to PPT

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25. Contact me: ∙tlarsen@sciences.sdsu.edu ∙tlarsen@scientificliteracy.org