ZEN AND THE UN-DOING OF POWERPOINT MONOTONY

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Heres why PowerPoint slides can be an extremely effective way to present visual aids, with emphasis on visual materialthat is, material that cannot easily be conveyed with words.
Michael Alley and Kathryn Neely

Heres help on how Good Copyright and Creative Commons Practices Presentation Slides, by Nancy Sims Understanding Fair Use https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse Thinking through Fair Use Interactive Tool https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts Alley, M and Neely, K. (2005). Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides: A Case for Sentence Headlines & Visual Evidence. Technical Communication. 52.4: 417- 426/

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isnt about dumbing down. Its about prioritizing. What s the core of your message?
Dan and Chip Heath

Presentations That Stick, Dan and Chip Heath Teaching that Sticks, Dan and Chip Heath Heath, D & C. (2003). Made to Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die. NewYork:Random House Slideuments and the Catch -22 of the Conference Presentation, by Garr Reynolds http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2006/0 4/slideuments_and.html Reynolds, G. (2012). Presentation Zen. San Francisco: PeachPit Press.

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Slides are slides. Documents are documents. They arent the same thing.
Garr Reynolds