December 2011

1. Basic Introduction to the use of Presentation Packages to support teaching James Atherton December 2011

2. Problem Strategy Design One issue students have with any lengthy lecture is keeping track of the overall argument

3. Problem Strategy Design One issue students have with any lengthy lecture is keeping track of the overall argument Yes, I know lengthy lectures are undesirable, but they do happen, so let’s mitigate their downside.

4. Problem Strategy Design One issue students have with any lengthy lecture is keeping track of the overall argument There are three topics in this presentation: one word for each, and highlight the next one coming up...

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16. On the other hand, who said you can only have one presentation available at a time? Prepare different versions to support different directions, and switch between them if necessary by using Alt+tab to cycle through all open applications on the machine

21. Edward Tufte sees PowerPoint as tyrannical, imposing its own repressive order on everything it touches http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

27. Redundancy 1 Like a rope twists together many strands to gain strength redundant communication reinforces the message with back-ups and patterning

28. Redundancy 2 Like a rope twists together many strands to gain strength redundant communication reinforces the message with back-ups and patterning But this bit is redundant (in the other sense), when you are explaining it verbally, too...

29. Redundancy 1 redundant communication reinforces message with back-ups and patterning So cut it out!

33. Would a picture of a window on this slide help, or not?

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36. Using master layouts Click with Shift

37. Using master layouts Click with Shift Edit the master layout to apply a consistent style to all your slides at once.

38. Click with Shift

39. Using master layouts This (top) slide is the master of the masters; modify that to alter all subordinate layouts

57. Or you can use a mind-map or similar, colouring branches progressively to show what has been covered, and return to it as you proceed through the teaching—even week by week.

58. Problem Strategy Design A really simple summing up via the original key-words