Visual Presentation Skills

Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint", and making your message better using aesthetics

Base XP: 30

Learning Target(s):

Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles
Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context

This quest will have you looking at the importance of aesthetics and their effect on your presentation design. Your task will have you transforming your understanding of these concepts into a handbook, website, how-to, or something.

You will then create a short presentation to practice those skills in the next quest "My Town".

When people speak about AESTHETICS, they are speaking about the appreciation of beauty, especially when it comes to art. The term refers to a set of standards or guidelines that one might use to gauge whether or not a piece of artwork is beautiful - a pretty subjective topic. Many of the standards that we often refer to are viewed as guidelines rather than strict rules. This section will explore a few of those aesthetic standards (guidelines). Watch the video above and take notes of some of those important guidelines.

Read the Moodle pages and take notes on

1. The Rule of Thirds

2. Less is More

3. Be Bold!

My dream is that you will compile a list of tips and tricks SO FLAWLESS that I will never have to suffer through another PowerPoint with pink text on red background that should have just been an essay and doesn't even have any pictures..... (insert barfing emoji).

When you have created your magical and informative notes on how to not kill your English teacher with monotony, please put it in OneNote and let me know that it's ready :)

Then, move on the the "My Town" quest if you want to try some of these out, or Choose Your Own Adventure and practice on a topic of your own (like for a different class maybe???).

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