Visual Feast: The Powerful Powerpoint Presentation

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This is a probably nothing new for most people, but a "feast" is a great analogy on how to organize your content for Powerpoint Presentations. This is from a talk a gave for teachers in a high school in Batangas, Philippines on how to engage students of different learning styles using technology, online tools.

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How do you serve a meal?

Lauriat or fast food style?

Individual dishes?

A slide presentation that works is like a good meal.

This is your lauriat slide.

Ingredients ...

Ingredients ...

Text heavy

Ingredients ...Title in prominent position

Text heavy

Ingredients ...Title in prominent position

Bullet points!

Text heavy

Ingredients ...Title in prominent position

Bullet points!

Text heavy

Little or noimages

These ‘lauriat’ slide presentations transfer the speaker’s burden onto the listeners,resulting in ...

Focus on each dish, then serve it with the listeners in mind.

Let’s have it buffet style. Think:

VISUAL FEAST

Create an experience.

Experience= engagement of the senses

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

–Maya Angelou

Appetizing / Attractive

Appetizing / Attractive

Simple / Digestible

Appetizing / Attractive

Simple / Digestible

Coherent / Thematic

Appetizing / Attractive

Simple / Digestible

Coherent / Thematic

Dynamic / Theatrical

Appetizing / Attractive

Simple / Digestible

Coherent / Thematic

Has variety

Dynamic / Theatrical

Appetizing / Attractive

Simple / Digestible

Coherent / Thematic

Has variety

Dynamic / Theatrical

Appropriate

Appetizing / Attractive

Simple / Digestible

Coherent / Thematic

Has variety

Dynamic / Theatrical

Appropriate

1appetizing //

attractive

“visual generation”

data retention:

10%

data retention:

10%

data retention:

35%

10%

data retention:

35%65%

Images! Images! Images!

Cater to all types of learners.

Cater to all types of learners.

Color scheme

Color scheme

Fonts

Fonts

Make information yummy.

Make information yummy.

Make information yummy.

MATH: Fractions

MATH: Fractions

1/2

HISTORY: Battle of Mactan

2 digestible // simple

Forget thebullet points.

Stick to a phrase,or a single word.

REMEMBER!

3 coherent //

contextual

Ordered aesthetic

Peg it on a theme or context.

Peg it on a theme or context.

4 showmanship //

dynamism

Tell a relevant story.

Treat it as a performance.

Demo. Grab some props.

5 have some variety

One word: MULTIMEDIA

6 make it fresh

Don’t recycle templates!

@camillediola

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