[WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The comment’s server IP (72.34.53.165) doesn’t match the comment’s URL host IP () and so is spam.

I heard it from someone and it’s helped immensely. Really gets ‘em thinking about what they’re message(s) may be.

In the original you have that planet shot running through the entire presentation, which got flat after awhile, as you obvious noticed.

Personally, I prefer the title screen of the original to the stripped-down monochromatic revamp. It’s just a cool picture ’s all.

Good work.

@Mathew The point was not necessarily to make it impossible to follow the content sans narrative. The idea was to create a presentation that actively engaged the students instead of allowing them to half-sleep through it and still get all the content written down. I’d agree that bullet points aren’t evil themselves. However, given their excessive misuse, I’d prefer to eliminate them from my presentations entirely. That’s just my personal preference, and shouldn’t be taken as a proclamation against all people who choose to use them. I just worry that using a few bullet points with short phrases easily turns into the same old thing.

@J.D. Thanks for the great resource! I checked it out, and it’s certainly easier than using Flickr’s search. Good luck on your conversion process. I’d love to see examples if you can put them online.

Great presentation. I’m slowly trying to go through all mine and change them around a bit to make them more visually pleasing.

However, I disagree that the point was “not [to] be able to follow the content without the narrative.”

The point was to make your presentation a visual representation compliment what you were presenting orally so that visual learners could process information you were presenting as well as auditory learners.

I believe you did that but the point wasn’t to make it hard to follow. I also am not sure that we have to obliterate all bullet points. Bullet points with one or two words, or short phrases of key points which are truly important could be very effective in conveying information in combination with the visuals you’ve presented. Just because bullet points have been badly used in the past doesn’t mean we have to eliminate them completely.

Your students may have a point when they’re asking for those bullet points. If your presentation makes it “easier to take notes” and makes it comprehensible to visual learners then you have a winner.

Your comment about the student response has been true for me too. How have you responded to it? I’m very curious because right now I’m trying to figure out the balance on this one with my inclusion classes.