I wanted to compare two slideshows that I found on Slideshare just by typing in “education”. Here is the first- “The Future of Technology and Education”:
I believe that this slideshow commits every possible slideshow sin that we discussed. It begins with several very detailed charts, which have interesting information but are visually unappealing. I think that a select few of these points could have been isolated and emphasized on separate slides, instead of placing a whole chart on one slide. Moving along, we encounter slides which are absolutely packed with text and information. Next, there are what appear to be screenshots, but the images are too distorted to read. Although there is some interesting information in this slideshow, I do not think it is an effective slideshow.
Now, compare with this slideshow, “Education 2.0″:
Very little information is presented on this slideshow. In fact, I have almost no idea what points are being made during this presentation. However, I find this slideshow much more effective than the first one. This one is obviously meant to accompany a speaker. Although the first slideshow can stand alone, if it were accompanying a speaker it would be too distracting. The Education 2.0 presentation is simple, attractive, and has effective graphics. Key words are isolated, but the explaining is left to the speaker. I would actually like to see the presentation in full, because it seems to be quite interesting and entertaining.
Later, I am going to post a Powerpoint story that I created years ago to see what everyone thinks of it, but first I have to dig through some old disks to find it!
