Avoiding Powerpointlessness

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Avoiding Powerpointlessness
Background
Fonts
Bullets
Graphics
Color
Basic Slide Design
Animation
Sound
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Basic Slide Design

• 2-5 elements per slide
• Make important elements most prominent
• NO MORE THAN 5-7 lines of text on a slide
• Keep is SIMPLE!!

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Background

• Backgrounds should be subtle and not too busy
• Backgrounds and slide design should be consistent
• If you use photos as backgrounds make sure they
  match your content and are readable

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Fonts

• Most text should be at least 24 point
• Times Roman 18-point type
• Albertus Medium 20-point type
• Bookman Old Style 24-point type
• Arial 28-point type
• Use NO MORE than 3 font types
• Font colors should be consistent
• Only use 1-4 colors throughout a slideshow
• Word Art is not your friend

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Bullets

• Each sub-point should have a different,
  complimentary design so the reader can
  differentiate the points
• Reversals of color already used
• Different hues of the same color
• Italicized font
• Powerpoint is not for your entire literary work
  but rather a summation or emphasis of your main
  points

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Graphics

• Each graphic should enhance or extend what effect
  or emphasis is portrayed. It should never be the
  sole focus
• For the most part, do not overlap elements such
  as photos, graphs, etc
• Use animated graphics sparingly- they are not
  the focus of your work

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Color

• Imagine you are the viewer in the back of the
  room
• Is your presentation pleasant to the eye?
• What enhances the information but does not
  interfere or supercede it?
• What is readable--both in terms of size and
  design?

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Animation

• Transition animation should be consistent
  throughout the slideshow. It adds consistency.
• Make sure your animations are in order
• Avoid using the swivel animation
• Avoid using the typing mode (EVEN IF YOU SPEED IT
  UP)

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Sound

• Do not use sound to move from one slide to
  another. It creates a diversion for the audience
  and serves no effect
• If a sound is present, it should enhance or
  extend whatever is on the screen. Music would be
  appropriate in certain cases, as long as the
  speaker is not competing with it
• Do not use such sounds as screeching brakes,
  breaking glass, drive by, or explosion. They
  serve no purpose

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Sound
Watership Down
Animation
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Book by Richard Adams
Slide show by Morgan Duncan and Amanda Behrens
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Fire Danger While young redwoods burn easily,
older trees survive because their thick bark
serves as a fireproof shell. Redwoods' extremely
high water content further reduces the trees'
susceptibility to fire. Fire does reduce the
number of competing trees such as Douglas firs,
permitting almost pure stands of older redwoods
to remain.
Other Natural Dangers Lightning and winter
storms can damage redwoods severe drought
conditions can threaten young saplings, although
the regular moisture from summer fog alone can
usually sustain them. There are few other natural
dangers for the redwoods. The high levels of
tanic acid in redwood bark and heartwood help the
trees to withstand disease and insect attacks
that can readily be fatal to other trees.
Human Enemies The greatest threat to redwood
trees comes from humans. Historically, logging
has been devastating to the redwood forest more
than 95 of the virgin coastal redwood forests
have been cut. Logging still remains a constant
threat, with timber companies now targeting
second-growth trees in lands only just beginning
to regain the characteristics of a healthy mature
forest.
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Closely Related Texts
The book a Watership Down is at some points
closely related to the Greek tragedy Agamemnon.
In the beginning, the smaller rabbit Fiver
watches as the fields seem to bleed. At a point
in the tragedy, Agamemnon, the walls bleed. They
both foreshadow the doom of the ones in the
stories, however. I'm sure that the tragedy gave
Richard Adams many ideas for his story.
Basic Slide Design
Animation
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Rabbits
Hazel, Pipkin, and Bigwig
Pipkin, Dandelion, Hawkbit
Fiver
Original Watership Down Clan
Graphics
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Three living species of redwoods
Redwood Trees are classified in three separate
genera Coastal Redwood, Sierra Redwood and the
Dawn Redwood. The dawn was first found as a
fossil by a Japanese botanist in China in 1941.
Later, also during World War II, living specimens
were discovered in a single valley in central
China. The dawn redwood is deciduous while the
coastal and the sierra are both evergreen. The
coast redwood trees are able to sprout from a cut
stump or from the roots of the tree and achieve a
measure of vegetative reproduction in this way
which is not shown by the Sierra redwood. The
Sierra redwood which relies for reproduction to a
much greater extent upon the establishment of
seedlings. An interesting difference between the
trees of the coast redwood and the Sierra redwood
species is that the seeds ripen and shed in the
same year that pollination takes place in the
coast redwood, whereas, in the Sierra redwood the
ripening does not take place until the season
after pollination. Sierra redwood cones may hang
on the trees for many years with seeds still
inside them. All three of the redwoods have long
fossil histories in which they showed, once, much
more extensive distributions than is the case at
the present day.
Basic Slide Design
Animation
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Watership DownMarch, 1982
Dandelion covered more than three hundred yards
in less than half a minute here.
This is a shot of the scarp slope of Watership
Down.
The famed Watership Down was a welcome sight for
the weary Sandleford rabbits. As were all other
warrens in
England, Watership Down is the product of
thousands of years of management. Once
practically all of England would have been
covered in open forest such as the beech hanger.
The Honeycomb would have been among those trees
barely visible at the summit.
Graphics
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Marinas
and
Harbors
Visit our wonderful beaches, marinas, and fancy
harbors just for you!
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Rabbit Favorite Toys
Chew sticks
Made of wood, and many varieties are flavored,
too.
Super tubes
Fun for bunnies to crawl through.
Cat rollers
Wire ones or ones made of rubber--are favorite
bunny toys.
Color
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English Spot Rabbit
The English Spot is a century old animal. Its
body is built so that it is a racy animal. The
animal has a proportioned head to its body,
bright eyes, erect ears, long limb, and a full
arch body type.
Sound
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How big do red woods get
The tallest recorded redwood tree is a 364-foot
coast redwood in Humboldt County known as the
Founders Tree. Imagine lining four blue whales up
and standing thats what it would take to mach
the tallness of this tree them up that big! These
trees are from 3000 to 4000 years old
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More Rabbit Facts
Rabbits are not rodents
Rabbits can suffer from heat stroke
A female rabbit is called a 'doe'
A male rabbit is called a 'buck'
When reflected from bright lights rabbits eyes
remain black.
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