Universal design creating presentation slides

UNIVERSAL COURSE DESIGN:Slideset #1:

Creating Presentation Slides

Cartoon image. In a cave, the devil sits behind a stone desk and speaks to a demon sitting in a chair. The devil says…”I need someone well versed in the art of torture – do you know PowerPoint?”

ATES Presentation Slides

Slides to Convey:

• Essential Information• Provoke Learning

• Spark Interaction/Discussion

CONVEY ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

Image description: An image from the publishers text that contains various wire diagrams of the molecular structure of certain medications. There are four images but only one contains essential information related to the professor’s discussion. Three are identified as visual clutter and the essential molecule, Vincristine, is circled in red.

What’s Essential?Visual Clutter

An expanded image of the Vincristine molecule. There are no other molecules present. This image is enlarged to fill the slide, however it is still an image and the construction of the molecule is not readable by a screen reader.

CH2OH

Vincristine

OHN

CH2CH3NH

CH3O C

O CH2CH3

OCOCH3

HN

OCH3

OO

CH3O N

H HO CC

PROVOKE LEARNING

A chart that shows the relationship between marketing strategy, policy changes, and market share of a tobacco company’s effort to penetrate the Japanese market. The image contains three columns (marketing, policy, market share). Each column highlights changes in marketing and policy and in column 3 the market share bar chart displays what transpired as a result. The image itself is grainy and not well formed which limited clarity.

Description of the Health Transition Process for school aged children: The image contains two elements, a diagram the illustrates the process and bullet points that list descriptive elements of important points in the process.The process illustration has three key medical providers listed at the top of the chart, and then the actions steps each provider takes during a different part of the school year. In this chart, the School Nurse who serves Year 9 students receives notice of who those students are. Then…..

Image Description: three columns. The columns are labeled: Year 9 students identified, Red/Amber guide completed, and Year 9 Education Review held. There is a horizontal double ended arrow going across all three columns indicating this is a continuous process.The year 9 students column contains a picture of smiling children. The Red/Amber column shows a picture of books, and the final column, Year 9 Review, shows a picture of several teachers presenting information.

Set School Nurse Roles throughout the Health Transition Process

Year 9 students identified

Red/Amber Guide

completed

Year 9 Education

Review held

SPARK INTERACTION/DISCUSSION

Non-Computer Data Use Worldwide

Mobile Phone = Mobile Learning

One Bright side to the BlackBerry outage: discovering hidden features

QUESTIONS?