Sustainably Digital » examples http://sustainablydigital.edublogs.org Thoughts on teaching, technology, and maintaining sanity Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:50:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 As promised: Presentations Before and After http://sustainablydigital.edublogs.org/2008/02/13/as-promised-presentations-before-and-after/ http://sustainablydigital.edublogs.org/2008/02/13/as-promised-presentations-before-and-after/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:33:47 +0000 Ben Wildeboer http://sustainablydigital.edublogs.org/2008/02/13/as-promised-presentations-before-and-after/ As promised in yesterday’s post, I’ve posted my before and after presentations that I made to go over basic Earth structure with my Earth & Physical Science classes. I’ve already used the updated presentation, and the students seemed to enjoy it better than the overly bullet-pointed first version. You may not be able to follow the content without the narrative on the newly designed presentation, but that’s somewhat the point, no?

There were several students that expressed regret at the demise of the bullet points. It’s easier for them to just copy down exactly what it says (of course it is, they don’t have to actually pay attention or comprehend to do that). How well they’ve been trained by their past experiences!

Before

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After

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These presentation design upgrades seem to be all the rage. Since my last post I’ve found two new (to me) posts by edubloggers discussing (and even sharing) good design in presentations. And I thought I was ahead of the curve on this one…

Check them out:

I welcome your feedback on my presentations. I even look forward to constructive criticism!

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