Presentations The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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PresentationsThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

• Donald M. Voltz, M.D. and Andrew Alshab, M.D.
• Department of Anesthesiology
• Case Western Reserve University / University
  Hospitals of Cleveland
• 18 August 2004

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The Bad

• Change of color scheme
• Gratutous clip art
• Distracting transitions
• Long sentences, lots of text on the slide
  instead of bullets. Small fonts make readability
  difficult in the back of the classroom. Overuse
  of bold, italics, font sizes, colors.

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The Bad cont.

• Cont. instead of just the same title
• Sound that doesnt add anything
• Too much clutter
• I particularly dislike full sentences that wrap
  to the next line and could have been cut instead
  of running on.
• Too many bullets
• Running off the slide due to above
• Putting text below slide space

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The Bad cont.

• Cont. instead of just the same title
• Sound that doesnt add anything
• Too much clutter
• I particularly dislike full sentences that wrap
  to the next line and could have been cut instead
  of running on.
• Too many bullets
• Running off the slide due to above
• Putting text below slide space

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The Bad ...

• Switching color for no reason just distracts.
  Sometimes you need a paragaraph for a quote or
  definition. Put it on a slide by itself instead
  of crowding your slide with a number of lines.
  This is hard to read.

What do you think of the color and the long
paragraph? How about the misspelling?
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The Bad

• This is my students favorite clipart.
• Note that sound may or may not help the audience
  attend to what you are saying.
• Most included sounds are short but you can record
  your own.

Note style change
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The Ugly ...

• Too much of anything
• Sickening transitions
• Bad color schemes
• Distracting sounds

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The Ugly
Too much of a good thing

• Since all three of our kids have started college,
  the Bast family outflow has taken a BIG upsurge!

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Examples of Whats Available

• Title slide
• Bullet
• Combination text and graphic
• Organization chart
• Chart (graph)
• Word Tables

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Will Students Come If You Provide Handouts?
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Colour - Bad

• Using a font colour that does not contrast with
  the background colour is hard to read
• Using colour for decoration is distracting and
  annoying.
• Using a different colour for each point is
  unnecessary
• Using a different colour for secondary points is
  also unnecessary
• Trying to be creative can also be bad

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Background Bad

• Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or
  difficult to read from
• Always be consistent with the background that you
  use

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Graphs - Bad
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Graphs - Bad
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