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As I was going through my reader this morning, I ran across this post, Presentation Zen: Tokonoma and the art of the focal point.  About half way down the post there are some examples of ways to change the presentation of information.  I’ve been thinking/working on a number of presentations for this year and I’ve been really trying to move away from text heavy sites and use pictures to illustrate my points rather than relying on text.  This isn’t new information and I don’t know that I necessarily do it well yet, but my thought process has definitely changed.

Here is an example of one of my slides.  I don’t have  a before, but what I wanted to do with this is create interest without overwhelming with text.  I went on to talk about the importance of story when it comes to video creation in the classroom.

Here is another example from the same presentation. In this one I decided that rather than list all the next steps in regards to our upcoming film festival, I wanted to illustrate stepping stones as I discussed them.

I’m not convinced that this is necessarily the best way to approach this, but I definitely like having less text as a part of my presentations and having my explanation be what drives the content.

Here is the entire presentation.