standing room only: creating unforgettable presentations

Standing Room Only: How to Create Unforgettable Presentations

David Jakes

Today…

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Biology matters

• 3.5 pounds or 1.6 kg

• 12 billion cells

• 3.5 pounds or 1.6 kg

• 12 billion cells

• Fed by the optic and auditory nerves

Cognitive Load Theory

Intrinsic, Extraneous, and Germane

Recall Dupuit, Flow to fixed heads with recharge:

Note:

Recharge is a fixed flux and head/gradient will be calculated to accommodate that recharge - e.g. High recharge >> High heads

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Coherence Principle: People learn better when extraneous material is excluded rather than included.

Richard Mayer Multimedia Learning

Make it visual.

PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations

Bullet Points do!

“Why would you use words on the screen when they do just fine in your mouth?”

Seth Godin“

Multimedia Principle: People learn better from words and pictures than from words alone.

Richard Mayer Multimedia Learning

Use images to communicate, not decorate…

10%

35%

65%From Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina | See Multimodal Learning

Learn how to find images

Teach them about intellectual property…

Creative Commons

Stock photography

photl.com

Teach them design…

Adolescent Brain

• More gray matter than white matter• Prefrontal cortex growing and developing• Brain continues to grow and matures by the

age of 25• Teenage brain has a well-developed

accelerator but only a partly developed break• New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls

and 12 for boys

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Adolescent Brain

More gray matter than white matter

Prefrontal Cortex

Brain grows and matures by 25

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Adolescent Brain

Teenage brain has a well-developed accelerator but only a partly developed break

New proliferation of neurons at 11 for girls and 12 for boys

Negative plasticity

• Examine the worry circuitry in the brain• Limbic system• Thoughts have an impact on the brain• Get rid of the ANTS-kill them• Think of bad thoughts as air pollution• Exterminate the ants – get rid of always

negative thinking

Negative Plasticity

Examine the worry circuitry

Limbic System

Thoughts have an impact on the brain

Get rid of the ANTS-negative thinking

Bad thoughts as air pollution

As a high school student have you had a positive ongoing relationship

with at least one adult?

96% responded “Yes”

As a high school student have you had a positive ongoing relationship with at least one adult?

96% responded “Yes”

From 1998 to 2008:•2261 to 2556 Total Students•25.13 to 26.89 Credits Taken•729 to 1145 AP Tests •81% to 90% Pass Rate for AP Tests•87.9% to 98.1 % College Bound

GBS Snapshot

GBS Snapshot

From 1998 to 2008:

• 2261 to 2556 total students

• 25.13 to 26.89 credits taken

• 729 to 1145 AP Tests• 81% to 90% pass rates of

AP Tests• 87.9% to 98.1% College

Bound

4,333,182,081 images on Flickr

4 Years of Content on YouTube..every day

Waracle

Teach them to sell…

“Communication is the transfer of emotion…”

Seth Godin

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How many homeless?

• Between 2.3 and 3.5 million are likely to experience being homeless in a year

• 1.35 million of them are children• 200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given

night.• 50% African-American, 35% White, 12%

Latino, 2% Native American, 1% Asian

How many experience being homeless?• Between 2.3 and

3.5 million

• 1.35 million of them are children

• 200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night.

Image used with permission iamchrisjett

Teach them that color and font matter…

Of the 16 million colors…

This is a Serif Font

This is a Sans Serif Font

CAUTION: The use and application of Comic Sans in presentations is illegal in 34 states….

Image courtesy of NashWorld

Teach them to storyboard…

Teach them secrets…

Teach them to share

Slideshare file embedded into a Moodle page

Photo by ijohnpederson

Photo by Ben Grey

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