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Claremont McKenna College
• A Powerpoint presentation by Gordon Jack
Claremont McKenna College•Founded as a men’s college in 1946
•CMC became co-educational in 1976
•Mr. Jack plagiarized this information from Wikipedia
•The 69 acre campus is located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles
•These points are getting tedious, aren’t they?•Are you even reading these any more?
•Raise your hand if you want him to shut up!Stand up and say I’m sick and tired of
powerpoint presentations and I’m not going to take it anymore!!
•As of 2011, there are 1,301 undergraduate students and 20 graduate students
Avoid Bullets on Every Slide
•Too linear
•Too wordy
•Too boring
•Too predictable
•Promotes reading the slides
•Promotes reading ahead
Society as a whole is predominantly visual in its
orientation(Hyerle, 2000)
Not visual like this
(cheesy stock photograph)
Not visual like this
(cheesy clip art)
Compelling photographs
Video
1. Keep the audience in mind
Rules to remember
2. Keep it organized
Rules to remember
Opening hook
Central ClaimSub Point #1
Sub Point #2
Effective closing
Opening hook
Sub points
uh...so...that’s it
EFFECTIVE CLOSING!
3. Keep it simple
Rules to remember
10 words or less on slides
How to reduce to < 10 words a slide
Step 1: Find a slide with too many words on it.
Adapted from Slideology by Nancy Duarte
How to reduce to < 10 words a slide
Step 2: Choose one key word per bullet as reminder
Adapted from Slideology by Nancy Duarte
How to reduce to < 10 words a slide
Step 2: Choose one key word per bullet as reminder
Adapted from Slideology by Nancy Duarte
How to reduce to < 10 words a slide
Better yet, find a visual and memorize all the info
Adapted from Slideology by Nancy Duarte
Learning to Ride
Images of Claremont McKenna College
Don’t Clutter the Page
“Graduation!!”
4. Practice, practice, practice
Rules to remember
Make this slide visualExercise:
“In studies, experimental psychologists and educators have found that retention of information three days after a meeting or other event is six times greater when information is presented by visual and oral means than when the information is presented by the spoken word alone.”
Retention of Information after 3 Days