PowerPoint Makeover

Rhett McDaniel • Center for Teaching

Templates

?WhatWhy

Slippery Slope of PowerPoint

“It is easy to dismiss design –to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality.

But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters.”

Daniel Pink

?How

Help them understand

• Metaphors and symbols• Common experiences• Cultural references

Source: Ellen Finkelstein

Help them understand

Metaphors and symbols

Source: Ellen Finkelstein

Help them understand

Common experiences

Source: Ellen Finkelstein

Help them understand

Cultural references

Source: Ellen Finkelstein

Agenda• Global Resistance Trends

• Gram-Positive Resistance

• Gram-Negative Resistance (Europe)

• Multi-antibiotic Resistant Gram-Negative Resistance (US)

Source: Ellen Finkelstein

Assertion-Evidence Slide Design

Microfinance• Usually small amounts of money• Provided by small not-for-profit

organizations through to large banks• Over 7,000 microfinance institutions• Serves 16 million poor people in the

developing worlds

Source: http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/

Source: http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/assertion-evidence-design-presentation-slides/

The 8 Dos And Don’ts Of Twitter

• Be easy to find

• Provide timely info

• Ask advice• Engage with

your community

• Shout• Repeat yourself• Be aggressive• Auto-tweet

DO Don’t

Now It’s

YOUR

Turn

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