1. Terrific Transparencies
Tips for creating effective instructional presentations

2. Horizontal Layout Projection (movie) screens in classrooms
Avoid part of image on ceiling or floor

3. Visuals A picture is worth 1,000 words.
Students will remember the picture after the words are gone.

4. Visuals Images can fade into the background.
(format, picture, washout)

5. Visuals
Images can come from clip art, draw tools, Internet images, scanned images, charts, graphs, digital cameras, etc.

6. Visuals Should lead the viewer INTO the page, not off the page
Should face toward the words

7. Few Words
Limit words to essential terms and bullets of information.

8. Single Concept Stick to one concept per transparency.
For complex ideas, use overlays.

9. Contrast is essential, too.
light lettering on dark background
dark lettering on light background
Use boldface as needed.

10. Contrast
The color YELLOW does not contrast well with a white/clear background.
Use light colors like yellow on a
dark background for visibility.
yellow

11. Lettering
Vertical lettering is hard to read. V E R T I C A L
Avoid unusual fonts like OldgateLaneOutline which are hard to read.
A sans serif font like Arial is a good choice.

12. Lettering Size: no smaller than 20 point [ALL letters, numbers, etc.]
Titles can be a bit larger.
Maintain the same font (style) throughout the slide.
Do not mix colors within a word. CONFUSING

13. Punctuation and Capitalization
Bullets: if not sentence, don’t punctuate
Capitalize proper nouns and first words of sentences. Short titles (7 words or less) may be ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
Do not capitalize common nouns just
because they are terms.
Root Stem Leaf Flower
root stem leaf flower

14. Leave an imaginary one inch margin around all four sides of the film.
This prevents crowding near the edges
and prevents the images from going
under the frame.