Good GE Slide

 

I chose this slide that I got from GE and I like their slides because they use clean white

backgrounds, a nice sans sarif font, the pictures are high quality, and the diagrams are always well drawn. I  think they must have someone or a group of people that are in charge of creating their power points. I noticed Reynolds used a presentation from GE as an example in his book. I found the slides I have are very similar to the ones featured in the book.

More slide reevaluation

Here is one of the slides I used before in my class and the next one is my redesign of the slide.

Evaluating my Powerpoints

In this entry I decided to go back and look at some of the Power Points I use in my classes that I teach. The first one I looked at was one that came out of the Prenhall text book. I run these in slideshow view with animations. The first screen is the slide before the animation. The second is after the animation runs. The first thing I picked out was the word voltage in the blue box is a bit hard to see and I think it would be better with a white font color. Also, the chapter 2 box and summary box could be taken out, because they don't add anything to the slide.

Bad Color Wheel

I picked this image as an example of color that does not consider people with color deficiencies and is much different than the color wheel posted earlier. Nothing is labeled, so it is hard for me to pick a color. This image is from Microsoft Word and I was trying to make a chart using either Monochromatic or Analogous colors, but it was hard to figure out the colors, so the only color scheme I could use is Complementary. One thing I did notice was the darker shades are placed on the outside to help the colors pop out.

Color Wheel

I chose this color wheel because it is simple and well label. I am color deficient and have trouble with most color wheels because they are not labeled. I like the use of the white background and white letters, which made it easy to see. Also the color they used in the yellow stands out, so the label is easily seen. The font is laid out in a horizontal manner and uses a sans sarif, which makes it easy to read.

Paxil Infographic

 

I used this infographic in another exercise, so I am going to try to examine it deeper in this blog. One thing that jumps out at me is the small font size. There are sections where the font is so small that it is hard to read. Also there are many different font types in this graphic. It seems like they took five different presentations and combined them into one big infographic. Another thing that stands out is the bar graph labeled Paxil's average pharmacy cost. The choice of color for Austria is poor, it is hard to see on the light background. The next thing I noticed is the graphic of the Paxil tablet and how it is broken up into slices. This is confusing because I am not sure if this is suppose to be a pie chart and if it is, it would be better of to show the data as a pie chart. 

Data Graphic