PowerPoint: Do No Harm

by Dan Meyerwho writes at blog.mrmeyer.compresented to The Oakland Teaching Fellowson 2008 April 1

Do Not Ask PowerPoint To Do What It Cannot.

Rule #3:

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My Story★ Born 1982

• 25 Years Old★ Never wanted to go to UC Davis.★ Never wanted to teach.★ 4th Year Teacher★ Hobbies Include:

• Filmmaking• Writing• Graphic Design

“Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realist, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness because it's so socially repulsive. But it's pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.

Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue. It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.

David Foster Wallace. Kenyon Commencement Speech. 2005.

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My Story

My Story★ Born 1982

• 25 Years Old★ Never wanted to go to UC Davis.★ Never wanted to teach.★ 4th Year Teacher★ Hobbies Include:

• Filmmaking• Writing• Graphic Design

Questions Unanswered★ How do I include hyperlinks in my

presentations?★ What are good sources for clip art?★ How do I insert math notation into my

presentations?

A B

http://tinyurl.com/yv9rrx

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http://www.xkcd.com/388/

http://www.xkcd.com/388/

Rule #1:

Once a day for 180 days, everything matters.

Color matters.

Color matters.

Alignment: over 180 days, this also matters.

Alignment: over 180 days, this also matters.

SIZE draws the eye to important

details. Use it CONSISTENTLY

and DELIBERATELY.

Don’t USE size randomly. (This is

THE difference.)

http://tinyurl.com/2juunn

Dear Future Dan:

Kids just multiplied THE SMALLEST NUMBER ON THE BASE by the height. Not THE BASE itself.

Don’t blow this next time.

xoxo,

Present Dan

http://tinyurl.com/yv9rrx

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1. Opener a) Which duct tape is the better deal?

Day 68

The Office. NBC.

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How I Met Your Mother. CBS.

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PowerPoint: Do No Harm

by Dan Meyerwho writes at blog.mrmeyer.compresented to The Oakland Teaching Fellowson 2008 April 1