DESIGN TIPS
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Keep your instructional goal in mind
Prepare – don’t just jump into creating slides
Consider your audience
o Viewing on a computer/tablet
o Limited attention span
o Level of knowledge, motivation
Provide organization
o Novices do not have the same structures for organizing new information
that experts do
o Give them insight into your structure
o Help them define/organize their own
o Concept Maps, Matrices, Outlines, Hierarchy, Sequence
o Stay focused
Break your content into chunks
o 4-5 minutes long
o Introduce each section; link to previous section or learning
o Wrap up each section – what’s coming next?
o Don’t stay on any slide for longer than 20-30 seconds without some new
visual element (annotation, highlight, drawing, movement)
Narration
o Use a conversational style
o Tell stories
o Prepare a script, even if you don’t read from it verbatim
o Use inflection – remember, your students can’t see you, so they need to
hear your enthusiasm in your voice
Interaction
o Quizzes
o Pause for a moment
o Ask questions – tell them to write down their answers
o Recap
Slide Design
o Don’t use too much text
o Avoid the “slideument”
o Provide a handout with more detail – everything doesn’t have to be on
the slide
Use Graphics, but with purpose
o Make the tangible visible
o Illustrate change over time or space
o Summarize relationships
©2015 Tracy Thompson, Linda Cotton
TOOLS – WHICH SHOULD I CHOOSE?
FEATURES
POWERPOINT
Mac and PC
Use your own GW computer
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Use existing PowerPoint
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Create diagrams, tables, charts
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Need microphone
CAMTASIA
PANOPTO
Limited
Mac
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Embed photos, videos
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video
Screen Draw, annotate
w/tool
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Easily re-record slide
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Visual Cueing (arrows, circles)
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- zoom, pan, add, edit
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Screen Recording
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Webcam recording
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Edit recorded & included videos
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Quizzing – > Bb Grade Center
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Clickable Links, Table of Contents
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Privacy
limited
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TOOLS – GETTING STARTED
PowerPoint
Make Narrated PowerPoint http://youtu.be/BmakeF58RuI
Upload video to Bb via Youtube http://youtu.be/QGyo_Wu4Fww
Camtasia
http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-8.html
Panopto
http://libguides.gwumc.edu/panopto
Explain Everything (iPad app)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8
SOURCES FOR VISUALS – COPYRIGHT FREE
Diagrams
 PowerPoint SmartArt
 http://www.duarte.com/diagrammer/
Photos
 Google: Images > Search Tools > Usage Rights > Labeled for Non-Commercial Use
 Flickr: Search>License>Creative Commons only
 gov website - public domain, e.g. NIH image bank https://imagebank.nih.gov/
Video
 Youtube: Sign in>youtube.com/editor>cc>search>click and drag to timeline>save
 Vimeo: Search>Advanced search>Advanced Filters>License>Attribution-NonCommercial
REFERENCES
Presentation Zen - http://www.presentationzen.com/
 Reynolds, G. (2008). Presentation zen: Simple ideas on presentation design and delivery.
Berkeley, CA: New Riders Pub.
Slide:ology
 Duarte, N. (2008). Slide:ology: The art and science of creating great presentations. Beijing:
O'Reilly Media.
Design for How People Learn
 Dirksen, J. (2011). Design for how people learn. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.
Bozarth, J. (2010). Nuts and Bolts: Principles of Multimedia Learning. Learning Solutions Magazine.
Retrieved February 22, 2013 from: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/453/nuts-andbolts-principles-of-multimedia-learning
Tweak your slides presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/ohmgrrl/tweakyourslides-7262707
HELP!
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Linda Cotton - HSP, cottonl@gwu.edu
Tracy Thompson - MD program, tlthompson@gwu.edu
Himmelfarb 4-2857
CASS - Panopto 4-9400
Lynda.it.gwu.edu – NetID & pswd
(not panopto)