Giving Feedback on Students

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Giving Feedback onStudents PowerPoints

• The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional
  Communication
• WORKSHOP SERIES

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What rules should we teach students about
PowerPoint?
x
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Teach Students How to Decide

• As new technologies emerge
• As audiences change
• Academia/ industry/ public
• Disciplines
• Diverse cultures (globalization)
• As their purposes change

By emphasizing processes and criteria
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Shifting the focus of feedback
This title is too short.
What will the audience expect to be on the slide
from this title?
There are arent enough labels here.
If you point to this image during your talk and
someone misses it, will they be able to
understand?
This doesnt seem to be related to the previous
slide.
How does this slide work in the series of slides
so far?
PRODUCT
PROCESS
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Ask Questions Related to Criteria

• Is it accessible?
• Is it comprehensible? Understandable?
• Is the information usable?
• Is the slide interculturally or interpersonally
  appropriate and compelling?

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Accessibility Questions

• Is information organized logically?
• Are whole to part relationships obvious?
• Are cues consistent, noticeable without being
  overwhelming?
• Are images legible, familiar, and interpretable?
• Is text easy to read?

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Accessibility Cues

• Headings and titles
• Hierarchy
• Indentions
• Point size, point size
• Layout in space
• Legibility (contrast, font, color)
• Conciseness

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Common Errors in Accessibility
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Slide Template Errors

• Busy/complicated can audience get what they
  need?
• Wrong for room are the slides easy to read?

• Well-lit room use light background / dark text
  and visuals
• Dimly-lit room use dark background / light text
  and visuals

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Errors in Choosing Fonts

• Good for print
• E
• Serif (tail)
• Such as Times New Roman

• Good for projecting
• E
• Sans Serif
• (uniform shaft width)
• Such as Arial

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Errors in Choosing Fonts

• Contrast between background and text
• Size of font
• Type treatment of font

Drop Shadows Reduce Legibility
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Too Much Text!

• The ideal anesthetic should quickly make the
  patient unconscious but allow a quick return to
  consciousness, have few side effects, and be safe
  to handle.

Ideal anesthetics Quick sedation Quick
recovery Few side effects Safe to handle
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Lack of Hierarchy
Bullets help your audience to skim the slide to
see relationships between information organize
information in a logical way For example, this is
Main Point 1, which leads to Subpoint 1 Further
subordinated point 1 Further subordinated point
2 Subpoint 2
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Content-Poor Titles
Titles should give the message of the slide, for
example Results suggests the topic for a
slide Substance X upregulates gene Y (with data
shown below) shows the audience what is observed
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Errors in Lists

• For easy accessibility, lists should be in same
  grammatical form

Parallel Use keywords Avoid wordiness Opt for
bullets
Not Parallel Use keywords Wordiness is bad You
should opt for bullets
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Revise for Grammatical Parallelism

• Not Parallel
• Criteria to Assess Alarm System
• Price
• Effectiveness
• How easily the alarm could be installed
• Parallel
• Criteria to Assess Alarm System
• Price
• Effectiveness
• Ease of installation

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Use of Intense Colors Together

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Graphics That Cant Be Read

• Small image stretched to graininess
• Large image reduced to illegibility

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Overused, General Clip Art
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Errors in Slide Show Effects

• Slow effects

• Fancy animation

• Animation used without purpose
• Inconsistent use of animations or transitions

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Comprehensibility Questions

• What helps the audience understand the argument
  of the presentation?
• What connects one slide to the rest of the
  presentation?
• What evidence is presented? Is the evidence
  adequate, appropriate?

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Comprehensibility Cues

• Relation of title to bullet items
• Repetition of key words
• Logic of headings
• Labels on figures, diagrams, photos
• Relation of each slide to main point
• Quality of evidence/ support

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Usability Questions

• Are sources indicated?
• Is contact information supplied?
• Is anything lacking that the reader needs to take
  action?
• Is the sequence complete? Are steps missing?
• Are warnings provided, if necessary?

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Usability cues

• Citations and bibliography
• Speakers name, affiliation, contact information
• Symbols to indicate cautions, warnings
• Handouts

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Interpersonal / Intercultural Questions

• Do the slides reflect the character expertise
  of speaker?
• Are the slides consistent with the culture and
  values of audience? (for example, values
  tradition or values innovation)

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Cultural, Interpersonal Cues

• Slide design
• Familiarity of genre system
• Appeals to the values of audience

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Examples Before and After
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Directional Hypercomplex Wavelets for
Multi-dimensional Signal Analysis and Processing

• Wai Lam Chan
• Hyeokho Choi
• Richard Baraniuk

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Directional Hypercomplex Wavelets for
Multi-dimensional Signal Analysis and Processing

• Wai Lam Chan, Hyeokho Choi, Richard Baraniuk
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Rice University, Houston, TX
• April 17, 2004

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New Technical Committees

• Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
• Dorin Panescu, Refractec Inc., Irvine , CA,
  Chair, Cardiac Catheter Ablation
• Jean-Yves Chapelon Ph.D., INSERM, Lyon, France,
  High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Prostate
  Tumor Ablation
• Rahul Mehra , Ph.D., Medtronic, Inc. Minneapolis,
  MN, Cardioverter-defibrillators, Tachyarrhythmia
  Research
• Tim McIntyre M.S.,Manager, St. Jude Medical, St
  Paul, MN, Medical Device Industry RD and
  Management
• John Pearce, Ph.D., ECE Department, University of
  Texas, Austin, TX, Electromagnetics and Acoustics
  Applied to Medical Devices
• Kouros Azar M.D., B.S.BME, Thousand Oaks, CA,
  Reconstructive Surgeon
• Reese Terry M.S., Co-founder/Board Member
  Cyberonics, Inc., Houston, TX, Neurostimulation
  Devices

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Therapeutic Systems Technologies
Dorin Panescu, Chair Refractec Inc., Irvine,
CA Cardiac Catheter Ablation
Jean-Yves Chapelon, Ph.D. INSERM, Lyon,
France High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for
Prostate Tumor Ablation

• John Pearce, Ph.D.
• University of Texas, Austin, TX
• Electromagnetics and Acoustics
• Applied to Medical Devices

Rahul Mehra, Ph.D. Medtronic, Inc. Minneapolis,
MN Cardioverter-defibrillators Tachyarrhythmia
Research

• Kouros Azar, M.D., B.S.
• BME, Thousand Oaks, CA
• Reconstructive Surgeon

Tim McIntyre, M.S. St. Jude Medical, St Paul,
MN, Medical Device Industry RD and Management
Reese Terry, M.S. Co-founder/Board Member
Cyberonics, Houston, TX Neurostimulation Devices
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Motorcycle Characteristics

• Wheelbase p 1.4 m
• Distance from the center of gravity to the rear
  wheel b 0.7
• Sprung mass m 200 kg
• Pitch moment of inertia IyG 38 kg m2
• Reduced stiffness of the front suspension kf
  15 000 N/m
• Reduced stiffness of the rear suspension kr
  24 000 N/m
• Reduced damping of the front suspension cf
  500 Ns/m
• Reduced damping of the rear suspension cr 750
  Ns/m
• Speed 28 m/s
• Natural bounce frequency of vibration

• Natural pitch frequency of vibration

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Motorcycle Characteristics
Wheelbase 1.4 m
Distance from center of gravity to rear wheel 0.7 m
Sprung mass 200 kg
Pitch moment of inertia 38 kg m2
Reduced stiffness of front suspension 15 000 N/m
Reduced stiffness of rear suspension 24 000 N/m
Reduced damping of rear suspension 750 Ns/m
Speed 28 m/s
Natural bounce frequency of vibration 2.11 Hz
Natural pitch frequency of vibration 3.38 Hz
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What is Telemedicine?

• Telemedicine utilizes communication technology
  in order to move medical information rather than
  patients, and it is being used as a tool to
  bridge inequalities in access to medical care
  between rural and urban areas in the U.S
• It is most commonly used in the
  visually-oriented fields such as radiology and
  dermatology

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What is Telemedicine?

• Distributes medical information and expertise
• Used primarily to transmit visual medical data
• radiology
• dermatology
• Targets populations with limited access to
  medical care
• rural areas
• remote areas
• Bridges inequalities

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Next Steps

• Finalize design (Oct)
• Begin CAD work (Oct)
• Submit revised budget (Oct)
• Construct drive-train (Nov)
• Select material for armor (Nov)
• Test drive-train prototype (Dec)
• Train driver (Dec)
• Report progress to mgmt (Dec)

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Next Steps
October November December

• Finalize design
• Begin CAD work
• Submit revised budget

Construct drive-train Select material for armor
Test drive-train prototype Train driver Report
progress to mgmt
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Health Benefits of Green Tea

• Polyphenols
• Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)
• Reduces angiogenesis, tumor progression
• Reduces risk of coronary artery disease
• Encourages growth of acidophilus

http//www.green-tea.us
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Border retained from Excel
Redundant chart title
No conclusion in title of slide
Background shading
Gridlines
No error bars
Small axis labels
Figure 2. Rate of seedling growth at three
different temperatures ?25oC, ? 25oC, and ? 30oC.
Redundant legend
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Seedlings grew most rapidly at 30oC
30oC
25oC
20oC
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Deaths due to accidents, by type of accident,
selected countries, 2006 (Rate per 100,000
population)
Long title
No cues to important figures
Country Total accidental deaths Car/transport accidents Industrial accidents Other causes
Austria 75.22 44.88 4.31 26.03
Belgium 62.63 39.92 4.02 18.69
Canada 62.12 30.91 3.98 28.13
France 79.89 33.85 1.02 43.02
United Kingdom 34.81 23.09 1.33 10.39
United States 60.66 33.42 2.59 24.65
Many gridlines
Alphabetical order
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• Deaths due to accidents in 2006
• (Rate per 100,000 population)

Country Total accidental deaths Car/transport accidents Industrial accidents Other causes
France 80.0 33.9 1.0 43.0
Austria 75.2 44.9 4.3 26.0
Belgium 62.6 39.9 4.0 18.7
Canada 62.1 30.9 4.0 28.1
United States 60.7 33.4 2.6 24.7
United Kingdom 34.8 23.1 1.3 10.4
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What feedback would you give to the authors of
the following slides?
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Cain Project Legacy Materials

• 2008 is Cain Projects 10th and final year
• Some staff hired for 2008-2011
• Hewitt and Volz at Engineering
• Purugganan and Eich part-time in Natural Sciences
• Writing mentors and presentations coaches a
  possibility
• Legacy materials to be available in three forms
• Connexions http//cnx.org
• OWL-Space special Communication Folder
• Web site repository

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Connexions http//cnx.org

• 200 Modules on Communication
• Guides, training manuals, checklists,
  accelerators
• Collections
• Writing
• Oral Presentations
• Visual Design
• Graduate Student Professional Development
• Teaching (syllabi, sample assignments, grading
  forms)
• Discipline-specific items
• Courses
• Intercultural Communication for Engineers in
  Developing Countries

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Communication Folder Tool

• Easy accessed archive in OWL-Space
• Choose Communication Folder other account
  features
• Select items from folders
• General Communication Resources
• Oral Presentations Visual Design Writing
• Course-specific Resources
• Undergraduate Courses by Department Graduate
  Courses
• Teaching Aids
• Course Design Syllabi Forms TA
  Training Resources
• Professional Development Resources
• Items go into your course folder to support
  assignments

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Legacy Web Site http//www.owlnet.rice.edu/cainpr
oj/

• Contains materials not suited for other formats
• Videos
• Materials containing many links
• PPTs
• Annotated examples
• Web support for design courses

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Workshops to Introduce Materials

• March 31 - April 2
• April 7 - 9
• Three workshops on writing
• April 14-16
• Grads and undergrads