The principles I learned this week is very practical when I comes to creating high quality PowerPoint slides and how to deliver them.

As noted in a study, the key principles are brevity, cogency and clarity and slide shows should supplement a presentation instead of substitute for it (Grech, 2018). There are some principles I think can apply to PowerPoint slides. The Coherence principle: Audiences learn better when extraneous words, picture and sounds are excluded. This ties in with the Redundancy principle: People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, narration and on-screen text. IN slide shows, this is related to the Modality principle; graphics and narrations are better than animation and on-screen text, and to the Multimedia principle; text and pictures are superior to text alone. So in summary, in order of preference, use graphics and add text if necessary and animations only if absolutely necessary.

Here is a video of how to construct a good PowerPoint presentation.

Reference:

Grech, V. (2018). The application of the Mayer multimedia learning theory to medical PowerPoint slide show presentations. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 41(1), 36–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/17453054.2017.1408400