New evidence that bullet-points don’t work : Speaking about Presenting

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15 Nov 09

Donna Bills
This blog post outlines research done on how to use presentation tools such as PowerPoint most effectively. The author notes that too much text is distracting. One should use key words and graphics to make a point.

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brunoeduc
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30 Oct 09

Emily Vickery
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Nancy Blair
Brain research on effective presentation slides.

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14 Oct 09

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13 Oct 09

Kestutis Jorudas
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- One group attended a presentation with traditional bullet-point slides (with the occasional diagram) and the second group attended a presentation with what Chris calls “sparse slides”, which contained the same diagrams, but minimized the amount of text
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- - (Cowan 2001) has estimated working memory capacity to be around 4 chunks of information
  - The auditory cortex and the areas around it are involved in processing language – both spoken and
  - written
  - The audience member has to read the words on the slide and listen to the presenter at the same time, leading to overloading of the language areas whilst leaving the visual cortex with very little to do
  - by John Sweller. Cognitive load is the amount of work required to understand or learn something.
  - Intrinsic cognitive load – how inherently difficult something is.
    Extraneous cognitive load – extra work imposed by the thinking/learning environment.
  - sparse slides may minimize extraneous cognitive load
  - Encoding is the process of putting something into your memory. McDaniel
  - having to work a little bit harder to integrate the speaker’s narrative with the pictures might actually improve our storage of the information
  - obviously this is only true up to a point; having to work too hard at integrating the two could actually be counterproductive, effectively producing a situation with high extraneous cognitive load).
  - Show a picture that the audience has difficulty relating to what you’re saying. Either ask them to guess the relationship, or explain the relationship to them.
12 Oct 09

Susan Nugent
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11 Oct 09

Christy Tucker
Research applying cognitive load theory to slide presentations providing evidence that slides crammed full of text aren't effective for helping people learn and remember

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08 Oct 09

Peter Bromberg
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Ambika K
use more pictures & less words [may be i should start using youtube by using pictures of symtoms & treatment for my academic notes rather than blogging]

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07 Oct 09

Stephen Rahn
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wayne anderson
Great article on why bulleted powerpoints is an ineffective approach to teaching, based on research.

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