1. Learning Presentations: Ten Framing Principles
Scaffold
• Learning - Consider the ways in which your audience members might best learn.
• Design - Begin with design, then continue to incorporate design as content.
• Story - Use story to provide context and organize your facts.
Connect
• Play - Laughing people are more creative people.
• Feeling - Invoke emotion and invite audience members to connect thinking and feeling responses,
cognitive and affective learning.
• Meaning - Convey core idea / central concern, even passion in your presentation: use this opportunity
to make a small difference in the world.
• Symphony - Integrate all elements of your presentation to shape the big picture. Seek ways to
illuminate logic, analysis, and intuition as part of setting out idea or topic. Design to acknowledge
audience members’ thinking and feeling responses / cognitive and affective learning modes.
Extend
• Acknowledge - Acknowledge the origins of your presentation elements, contributors of ideas and
images, and the role of audience members as co-creators of meaning as you interact with them.
Acknowledge the presentation itself is not the main learning tool.
• Ownership - Own your presentation approach: don’t be owned by the presentation software or
what prevails as a “normal” presentation. Own what will evoke and support learning.
• Openness - Remain open to change, and remain committed to sharing what you create as an open
educational resource.
Learning Presentations: We draw upon the concepts of
Garr Reynolds. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design & Delivery. 2008
Daniel Pink. A Whole New Mind. 2006.
Presenters
Ilene D. Alexander alexa032@umn.ed @IleneDawn
Christina I. Petersen pete6647@umn.edu@CIPetersenZ
Center for Teaching and Learning
CTL Twitter - @UMinnTeachLearn
CTL blog - http://UMinnTILT.wordpress.com

3. LearningPresentations: Resources
Basics Reconsidered, and More
PowerPoint – In the Classroom An Online Tutorial
http://www.actden.com/pp/
Penn State Site onRethinking Design of Presentation Slides
http://writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html
PechaKucha – Guide to Better Presentations Skills
http://aqworks.com/en/blog/2007/07/03/pecha-kucha-nights-guide-to-better-presentations-skills/
Ignite – The Fastest Way to Create an Ignite Presentation
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/content/fast-ignite-presentation/
PowerPoint – 40+ Tips for awesome PowerPoint presentations
http://flirtingwelearning.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/40-tips-for-awesome-powerpoint-
presentations/
Finding Images and Choosing Good Images
What Makes an Image Good for Presentations?
Part I – http://www.powerpointninja.com/graphics/what-makes-an-image-good-for-
presentations-part-i/
Part 2 – http://www.powerpointninja.com/graphics/what-makes-an-image-good-for-
presentations-part-ii/
Creative Commons Search across a variety of platforms (Flickr, Google images,
YouTube)http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/?beta=1&q=
Flickr photo sharing site – Creative Commons pages http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Attribution, Non-Commercial: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-2.0/
Attribution, Non-Comm, ShareAlike: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-sa-2.0/
Attribution, ShareAlike: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/
Everystock.com – http://www.everystockphoto.com/
Compfight.com – "artsy" images http://compfight.com/
How Does Creative Commons Work?
CreativeCommons basics - http://vimeo.com/25684782
How to attribution photo credit - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49395
Where All the Purty Pictures Come From? - http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/where-all-
the-purty-pictures-come-from-flickr-creative-commons/22778
Creating Accessible Resources
UMinn Accessibility site on Presentations - http://accessibility.umn.edu/presentations.html
North Carolina on accessible PowerPoint - http://oit.ncsu.edu/itaccess/microsoft-powerpoint