Sharpening+the+design

=Sharpening the Design=

What if Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address using PowerPoint? http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

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Do your slides pass "the glance test?" (From Nancy Duarte) Duarte's blogpost and article from Harvard Business Review

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//**What do people really remember?**// Part 1: @http://www.polleverywhere.com/blog/what-people-remember-from-powerpoint-presentations/ Part 2: @http://www.polleverywhere.com/blog/better-powerpoint-what-we-remember-from-powerpoint-part-2/

What is good presentation design? Garr Reynolds: http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/whats_good_powe.html

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 * //Talk Like TED: 3 Unbreakable Laws of Communication//**

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 * //Extreme makeover: #1//**

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(From Robin Williams, the "Non-designers Design Book")
 * A few words about design.... CRAP!**

C = Contrast R = Repetition (our brains are wired to look for patterns) A = Alignment (avoid centering... it's an imaginary balance point that could cause brain "static" P = Proximity (design elements that call for your attention)

**Resources for images:**
Flickr Creative Commons Search http://flickrcc.net/

Morguefile: http://morguefile.com/

Pixabay @https://pixabay.com/en/

Wylio: http://www.wylio.com

Visual Persuasion Kit: 61 images for impact from Bill Ferriter http://plugusin.pbworks.com/f/Citations_VisualPersuasionDigitalKit.pdf

Create Stunning Visuals in Canva!
@http://canva.com (login with Google or Facebook)

**Other Resources for Presentations:**
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/ih_presentation.html http://delicious.com/cchausis/Presentations []

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