Doctor's Orders - Burn Your PowerPoints
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Dr. John Medina is an evolutionary biologist. He knows how the brain works. This is what led him to encourage others to destroy their current PowerPoint presentations and start over. Inspired by his recent book, Brain Rules, BrainSlides.com helps people design effective slide presentations or redesign their existing ones. Created especially for teachers and students, BrainSlides encourage research-based teaching and design practices to improve classroom experiences. Free information is available on the blog. You can inquire about design or consulting services via the contact form. Visit brainslides.com for more info. Video created in Apple Keynote using images available from brainrules.net/news
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Doctor's Orders - Burn Your PowerPoints
- 1. “Hi!”
- 2. This is John Medina.
- 3. This is John Medina. He’s a doctor.
- 4. He likes to study these
- 5. So h e wro te this
- 6. He wants to tell you something about your...
- 8. “ Toss your PowerPoint presentations. ” – Dr. John Medina
- 9. Why??
- 10. “ It’s text based, with six hierarchical levels of chapters and subheads – ”
- 11. all words.
- 12. Whic h means...
- 13. it takes a long time for your brain...
- 14. to process all of those slides!
- 15. Aaaagghhhhh!!!
- 16. You know,
- 17. on second You know, thought...
- 18. don’t toss your presentations...
- 19. Burn them!!
- 20. You heard him.
- 21. BURN your current PowerPoint presentations.
- 22. Then make new ones.
- 23. Better ones.
- 24. Visual ones.
- 25. Ones like these.
- 27. :-) It will make him happy.
- 28. See??
- 30. it makes your It’s not hard to do. brain happy!
- 31. It’s not hard to do.
- 32. Just start with these 2 tips.
- 33. 1
- 34. use less text
- 35. 2
- 36. use more images
- 37. Wait...
- 38. Is that all?
- 39. YES!
- 40. It really is that simple.
- 41. You can make slides like these...
- 42. You can make slides like these...
- 45. You can turn DULL slides
- 46. into Slides for your Brain
- 47. BrainSlides
- 48. BrainSlides.com