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Designing PowerPoint Slides that Keep Learners Awake, Engaged & Learning

Noelle Archambeau Instructional Designer & eLearning Consultant

© 2012 Noelle Archambeau | Archambeau Learning

Agenda

Adding Content

Creating Your Design

Engaging Your Audience

Designing Handouts


Design for any delivery method

Live Virtual eLearning


Which template would you choose?

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3 4


Template 1


Template 2


Template 3


Template 4


Start with a clean & simple design


Colors

Choose

Colors

That

These

Colors

Do not

Have

Enough

Contrast

Have

A lot of

Contrast

Also

Avoid

Colored

Text

On colored

Backgrounds


Fonts

Times New Roman

Arial


Font size

This is 54 point text This is 48 point text This is 44 point text This is 40 point text This is 36 point text This is 32 point text This is 28 point text This is 24 point text This is 20 point text

This is 16 point text


Design for the last row or smallest screen


Agenda

Adding Content



Designing Handouts


Follow your (slide) master


Slide titles


Slide text

Now I’d like to talk about how much text to put on a slide. I know it’s easier if all of the text is on the slide so that you can just read it during your presentation. However, if you’re just reading your slides, then why are you even there giving the presentation? Just print out your slides and skip the boring presentation altogether. People can read faster than you talk, so everyone is probably already done reading this slide by now. Am I still talking, did you hear what I said?


Bullet points

Bullets are better

They are the key points

Use the 7x7 rule

Or the 6x6 rule is better

But even with these rules

Your slide looks like this!


Guns don’t kill people, bullets kill people


Use visuals to tell the story


Step 1: Break content into small bites


Step 2: Remove unnecessary content


Step 3: Add relevant visuals


Which would you remember more?

OR


Types of visuals

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Where can you get photos?


Add a character


Educate, don’t decorate


Agenda

Adding Content



Designing Handouts


Get your audience to interact


Examples of Interactivity

Questions Polls / Quizzes Breakout Groups

Brainstorming Web Safaris Games


Agenda

Adding Content



Designing Handouts


Don’t use the one-size-fits-all approach


Any Questions?

Noelle Archambeau Office: 443-406-9029 [email protected]

Thank you!

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