This is a little dated but I came across this again when looking for something else and thought it’s worth sharing. There are some great design ideas for presentations and/or elearning designs. Check them out — you won’t be sorry!
Category: presentations
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Free Camtasia & SnagIt Licenses
Via Digital Inspiration Techsmith is giving away Camtasia and SnagIt licenses. If you do any screen captures and/or screen casts and don’t know about these tools you should DEFINITELY head over and check out these offers. These are top rate tools that are worth adding to your toolbox.
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Stock Photo Images
Via Tony Karrer comes this big list of resources for photos and images. Unless I missed it that list didn’t include my number one source; Microsoft’s Clip Gallery Live
Here are my top three. What are your’s?
Stock Photo Image and Other Media Sources : eLearning Technology
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10-20-30 Rule
I like the concept of this. Guy Kawasaki’s 10-20-30 rule says that a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. I think Merlin Mann of 43folders said it best…”Get in, get out, and don’t make people squint. Awesome.”
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Amen to this one!
I couldn’t agree more…”The Slide Is Not Your Script” “The Slide Is Not For Documentation Purposes” & “Your Slide Is Not Your Note Page”
The Public Speaking Blog » Blog Archive » The Pointlessness of PowerPoint
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Got Visual Aids?
Via Pivotal Public Speaking, I found this article referencing some research saying that only 7% of the information conveyed in presentation comes from text. But think of the last one you saw…was it dominated by text? Too often we cram way too much text at the expense of other, more effective options. Visual communication accounts for 55% while the vocal or spoken component the remaining 38%.
“The study by Decker Communications showed that by using visuals in your presentation you could expect roughly to double the chance of achieving your objectives.”

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