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Spice it Up

With Pecha Kucha

by Patricia Rand

Guns Don’t Kill People

• Bullet • Points • Kill • People

20 x 20

Why Traditional Lectures Suck

Stop Sign Characteristics

• 75 mm across opposite sides of a red octagon

• 20 mm white border

• White uppercase letters are 25 cm tall

• Reflective field and border

• Previously were mounted 2-3 above the ground

Presentation Makeover

Or, how I changed a sucky presentation into a pretty cool one…

References

• Abela, A. (2008). Advanced presentations by design: Creating communications that drives action. San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.

• Clark, R. and Mayer, R. (2008). eLearning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning. San Francisco, CO: Pfeiffer.

• Duarte, N. (2008). slide:ology: The art and science of creating great presentations. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc.

• Heath, C. and Heath, D. (2008). Made to Stick. Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. New York, NY: Random House.

• Mayer, Richard E. (2003, April). The promise of multimedia learning: using the same instructional design methods across different media, Learning and Instruction, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2003, Pages 125-139

• Mayer, R. E. (2001). Multimedia learning. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. • Medina, J. (2008). Brain Rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school.

Seattle, WA: Pear Press. • McNally, Terrance. “Corporate Storytelling.” Conference on World Affairs. University of Colorado.

Boulder, CO. April, 2010. • Reynolds, G. (2007, April 30). Presentation Zen. Retrieved from

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentionzen/2007/04/the_picture_sup.html. • Tufte, E. R. (2006). Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, LLC. • Williams, R. (2004). The non-designer’s design book. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

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