The KISS rule is one everyone should follow. In the past, I have been guilty of trying too hard to make a presentation interesting. This usually results in busy pages that detract from the message.
The idea of emotional response to a typeface is and important one. I love to use comic sans MS in my classroom, but this font would not work for presentations of a more serious nature.
Clipart may still have a place, but I have always preferred to use photographs whenever possible.
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Let your content be the exciting part of the presenation...interesting presentations don't have to be really colorful or beautiful...rather, just effective and efficient.
I agree about the fact that font can elicit an emotional response. But let's not forget that for many students, font can be very distracting. Especially for ELL and special education students, fonts that are fancy or hand written can make reading, and therefore understanding, material far more difficult. It is for this reason that I use exciting fonts for titles, but traditional type face fonts for the content of the materials or handouts.
Another important thing to keep in mind is to not mix clip art and pictures on the same page.
I think it is important to teach the students about the concepts of good designs. Many times students get caught up in using these features that they forget about the content on their page. One way to combat this is to give them a play experience where they can get a chance to put that in, then another lesson using appropriate font, pictures, clip art, etc. This is similar to what Dr. Christie has modeled for us with each of the applications we have learned.
I am also quilty of trying to make my presentations interesting using lots of color and probably way too much clip art. Now that I have learned some of the presentation tips. I definitely will make more of an effort to concentrate on the content of my presentation and try and keep it simple.
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