Create Your Own Slides

Overview: In this section, you will create slides that you can use in a course you teach. They can be completely new or adapted from slides you’ve used in the past.

Objective: Upon successfully completing this section, you should be able to design slides that use the assertion-evidence model and that meet accessibility guidelines.

Instructions: 1) Create three slides about a topic you teach. Use the assertion-evidence model and also check your slides for accessibility.

(Remember that PowerPoint is ideal for conveying visual information and that not all topics lend themselves to working well with PowerPoint. Or as the engineer and physicist Jean-luc Doumont says, it’s better to have a clear presentation without slides rather than having a presentation in which poorly designed slides actually impede the message.)

2) Email your three slides to Chas Brua (crb129@psu.edu) and Larkin Hood (lnh2@psu.edu). They will respond with feedback.