Comments on: Design for Educators: Your First Slide /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/ less helpful Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » How To Present Well: Start Over /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-11895 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:38:43 +0000 /?p=203#comment-11895 […] we still haven’t touched the slides yet, which you oughtta find odd, particularly given my usual enthusiasm for slide work. Short of rehearsing rehearsing rehearsing, creating complementary visuals is the last stop in my […]

]]> By: dan /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8448 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:48:18 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8448 There’s serif and sans serif fonts. One has the thin tails, one doesn’t. I have yet to find a script font that isn’t serif though maybe an actual designer can correct me there.

Still faking.

]]> By: Dana /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8430 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:29:51 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8430 Is there not a difference between script and serif fonts? Other than that – gracious, I wish this sort of thing were common knowledge. I remember when the blink tag first became available in html. *wince*

]]> By: dan /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8256 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:24:56 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8256 Agh, makes me sweat reading that. Makes me also wonder whether the teachers assigning PowerPoint presentations here at the end of the year aren’t also grading on a garbage-y rubric. Yikes yikes yikes.

Eric, thanks for narrowing Tufte down for me. Just ordered it.

]]> By: Amity /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8251 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:41:44 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8251 Yes, absolutely, beautiful. I’m still bitter for being docked points for “not adding enough colors and transitions” to a presentation for grad school.

]]> By: Eric Nguyen /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8166 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:32:25 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8166 I highly recommend Tufte. His books are pricey, however, so if you want an inexpensive (and relevant) taste of his work, check out “The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint.”

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp

It’s only seven dollars, incisive, and enlightening.

]]> By: mrc /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8163 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:24:10 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8163 I’m all Gill Sans all the time.

]]> By: dan /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8110 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:17:29 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8110 It’s pretty well featured.

]]> By: Todd /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8097 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:15:17 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8097 Really, Georgia on a PC isn’t that sexy on screen. It’s not just PP’s fault, even Web pages that use it don’t look so good (my site included). Does Keynote allow for more control over font spacing (kerning and leading)? That could convince me to buy it. Or maybe I’ll just start making “slides” in Word.

]]> By: dan /2007/design-for-educators-your-first-slide/#comment-8095 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:02:06 +0000 /?p=203#comment-8095 Ah, see, I thought you were running PowerPoint on a PC. My point was that PowerPoint already has some weird aliasing issues, rendering those tiny serifs chunky and indistinct. Pity the poor folks then consigned to PowerPoint on a PC where they don’t have Apple’s nifty Quartz engine to resize and rotate things smoothly. PowerPoint on a PC: worst of both design worlds, unfortunately.

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