The question “How much time do I need?” comes up alot in the context of preparing for a webinar. What tends to happen is the presenter has a slide deck in hand and they wait until the week before to really start considering the audience needs and reviewing the content. It’s not until the webinar practice […]
The Redundancy Effect and Your PowerPoint
We recently wrote a post on Richard Mayer’s ‘Ten Multimedia Design Principals‘ citing his book Multimedia Learning. I wanted to share another point from Mayer’s research that Cliff Atkinson drives home in his book Beyond Bullet Points called the Redundancy Effect. Mayer’s research shows that reading text displayed on the screen actually lowers retention. Mayer […]
Ten Multimedia Design Principals
sRichard Mayer is a professor in psychology at UC – Santa Barbara. Mayer is considered the authority on educational psychology, publishing over 18 books and 250 articles and chapters on the topic. Mayer and his colleagues conducted numerous experiments and studies into how we learn best through-out the 90’s. The result of their efforts was […]
Presentation science
I came across a presentation from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Buffalo on presentation science for educators. I thought it added a few good points regarding how we process information so have summarized the key points. Here are the highlights: The slides should not say everything that you do. (This is […]
PowerPoint Webinar Tip
When you are broadcasting a PowerPoint presentation during a web seminar it can be very distracting to have your mouse pointer (the little arrow) dancing across the screen as you or your presenter is speaking. The movement on the screen draws the audience’s attention from the presenter’s narration. It can even be confusing to the […]