ENGG 2100 Oral Communication Slide Design PDF

ENGG 2100 University of Guelph Oral Communication Slide Design 1 You are here Highlights/Announcements Project groups should be finalized this week Assignment next week (Mastery Check or Concept Sketches)...

ENGG 2100 University of Guelph Oral Communication Slide Design 1 You are here Highlights/Announcements Project groups should be finalized this week Assignment next week (Mastery Check or Concept Sketches) 2 Gryphon Racing…information 3 EngSoc 4 Tips for your presentation Strong, clear voice, easy to listen to, enthusiasm Well organized, had a plan, succeeded in plan, audience learned something Clear, thoughtful, well-organized slides Eye contact strong, felt presentation was for me/us 5 Characteristics of Poor Presentations TIME…..  Budget ~1 minute per slide  if over time, no option for highest grade of “Impressive” Speaking:  Too quiet, mumbled, monotone Structure:  Poorly structured, no plan, little organization, tried to do way too much and thus achieved little Body Language:  Minimal eye contact, no feeling that the audience matters Effort:  Little to no effort evident, ad lib attempt 6 Slide Design Content layout can affect understanding Slides can be overwhelming and distracting Extraneous information takes away from main message 7 Cognitive Load Theory Information processing capability based on a limited working memory and unlimited long-term memory Cognitive overload inhibits the learning process 8 Working Memory Short half-life  Information forgotten Low capacity Overwhelming the working memory inhibits transfer to long-term memory Miller’s Law: Working memory limited to 7±2 things 9 Working Memory Bottleneck 10 Expert-Novice Divide Experts recall large amounts of related information as a single chunk  E.g. chess piece placement; learning a dance routine Slides can be cognitively simple for experts, but overwhelming for novices Introduce a single idea from the novice’s perspective on a slide 11 12 Pop quiz: What factors affect anode instability? 13 Dual Channel Theory Verbal and Visual Channels Working Memory can store:  1-2 seconds of speech  1-4 images Overload occurs when one channel is overloaded 14 Dual Channel Theory – Slide Design Use images that reinforce the text directly Avoid text-heavy slides where text is read aloud Simplify? Allow time to read? Highlight key points? 15 Revisit the last example 16 What do you see? 17 Gestalt Principles People automatically group visual objects by similar characteristics Colour Proximity Motion Size Continuity Slide Design: group similar information Compare the next two slides… 18 Slide A 19 Slide B 20 Constructivism All learning is based on previous knowledge New knowledge is situated within existing knowledge as new links are created Best Approach: guide audience when engaging new material  Draw from common experiences 21 Minimizing Distractions Audience attention can be affected by: Perceptual Salience Top-down vs bottom-up attention Focused vs Divided attention 22 Perceptual Salience Whydo some objects in a scene have a greater chance of being stored in a memory? Perceptual Salience refers to any of our senses  e.g. eyes drawn to titles & bold  Avoid unintentional visual salience  E.g. changes in font  Leverage motion and gaze following  E.g. Hans Grosling, population growth TED-talk 23 Can you find the T? 24 Make Good Use of The Title! (or subject line in email, etc) This is a good example of “Top-down” attention People look first for information where relevant information is expected to be (e.g. the title) Use the title to explain why the slide is important 25 Focused vs Divided Attention Eliminate extraneous details 26 Reduce unnecessary complexity: 27  Colour Blindness https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/ Deuteranope ~5% of Males, 0.5% females; Protanope ~1% males,