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Moving Past the Evils of PowerPoint:
Lessons in Visual Literacy
TIE 2005
Patrick R. Lowenthal
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Learning Objectives:
1. You will be able to describe some of the issues surrounding the use of PowerPoint
2. You will have a list of strategies that you can use to improve the use of PowerPoint in your classroom
3. ______________________________
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Critiques of Tufte
1. Focused on presentations—not learning
2. Blames tool
3. Over-emphasis on content
4. Does not offer solutions or strategies to improve
5. ______________________________________
6. ______________________________________
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Edward Tufte’s critique of PowerPoint:
1. Low resolution and Bullet outlines dilute thought
2. Deeply hierarchical and linear structure
3. Fragments narrative and data
4. Encourages preoccupation with format, not content
5. Conspicuous decoration and phluff
6. Makes everything a sales pitch
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Additional Critiques of PowerPoint
1. Teacher centered
2. Technology centered
3. _______________________________________
4. _______________________________________
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Four typical ways to use PowerPoint
1. For presentations
2. To teach a class
3. As computer-based learning
4. Student products
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Strategies to improve PowerPoint
#1 Sound Instructional Design
#2 Visual Literacy
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Visual Literacy:
“Visual literacy is … the ability to understand and use images, including the ability to think, learn, and express oneself in terms of images”
Roberts Braden
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CARP: Contrast
Good Bad
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CARP: Alignment
GoodToday I went to the store to buy an apple for my grandmother.
BadToday I went to the store to buy an apple
for my grandmother.
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CARP: Repetition & Proximity
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Typography matters
GoodToday I went to the store to buy an apple for my grandmother
BadTODAY I WENT TO THE STORE TO BUY AN APPLE FOR MY GRANDMOTHER
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Typography matters
GoodToday I went to the store to buy an apple for my grandmother
BadTODAY I WENT TO THE STORE TO BUY AN APPLE FOR MY GRANDMOTHER
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Font Matters
Good
Font
Bad
FONT
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Linda Lohr Activity:
Use typography to express the words:Collaboration Alienation Synergy Bossiness
Use typography to express the words:Anger
Discord Harmony Joy
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Non-linguistic Representations:
Good Bad
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Other Strategies and Recommendations:
1. Twelve Commandments of PowerPoint
2. James Gall & Linda Lohr
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Some other recommended Guidelines:
1. PowerPoint should support your learning objectives and instructional strategies
2. Avoid PowerPoint templates3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets4. Less is better: less words & less slides5. Avoid distracting clip art or unrelated images6. Avoid distracting slide transitions7. Use CARP to improve design8. Avoid using all CAPS9. Leverage the multimedia: visual & audio when
appropriately10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your teaching
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