1. Michael Weston
Center for Teaching Innovation
University of Houston-Victoria
PowerPoint Makeover:Avoiding DBP

2. What is DBP?
3. Death by PowerPoint
Slide Reading
TMI (too much information)
4. Slide Reading
Slide Reading is defined as the seemingly unavoidable urge to read your slides to your audience as they themselves are reading your slides, thereby ensuring that they will be annoyed after the first slide and completely disengaged after the third slide.
5. Slide Reading
Everybody (else) does it
The laws of gravity and boredom do not apply to me
Rehearsal
Incomplete
6. Too Much Information
When creating slides, if you have to use a small font size to fit all of your text, you might have TMI
If you can't fit the graph or photo because you've got so much text, you might have TMI
If your slide leaves you with nothing to say, you might have TMI
7. TMI
Old rule: Maximum six bullets
New rule: One idea = One slide
12/16 -> 6/8 -> 3/4 = avoiding TMI
8. Ok, now that we know what causes DBP, what can we do about it?
...Let's take a look
9. Moving beyond Slide Reading and TMI in four easy steps
10. The Water Cycle v.1
Evaporation -Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam.The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.
Condensation -Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.This is called condensation.
Transpiration -Transpiration is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves. Transpiration gives evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the water vapor back up into the air.
Precipitation -is the processby which water returns to the earth in the form of rain or snow.
11. The Water Cycle v.2
Evaporation
Condensation
Transpiration
Precipitation
12. The Water Cycle v.3
13. Evaporation
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14. Condensation
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15. Transpiration
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16. Precipitation
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17. The Water Cycle v.1 (again)
Evaporation -Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam.The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.
Condensation -Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.This is called condensation.
Transpiration -Transpiration is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves. Transpiration gives evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the water vapor back up into the air.
Precipitation -is the processby which water returns to the earth in the form of rain or snow.