Brevity, Clarity, Humanity, and Simplicity...

*My 5 Major Changes*

I tried to stick with the module suggestions of clarity, brevity,humanity, and simplicity:

1. The first major change I made was to put some colour to the backgrounds, and to create an appropriate font colour to match consistently with each slide. I found that the last two slides were REALLY difficult to read due to the colours of the background and font.

2. I made all the font the same size and large enough to read on the power point presentation. Again, I found the last two slides of the original difficult to read due to font size.

* Both of these changes were made to ensure clarity to read and take notes if required.


3. I changed all of the transition and affects so that they were quicker and more attention grabbing then the original power point. I found it really hard to pay attention to the slides before and have patience with them because they were so slow. It would be really difficult to keep a student's, attention if the information is not quickly attainable.

4. I added pictures to each slide which, I thought, related to what each slide addressed to maintain the viewer's attention and illustrate the point. I find it is much easier to understand and pay attention to information if there is an illustration to accompany it :)
I also thought that including some of the pictures would enable the viewer to relate to the information, such as the map of the location of Crowsnest Pass in relationship to Lethbridge.

5. Lastly, I rearranged all the information, and thus slides, in a way which I thought best relayed information. In connection to this, I removed a good chunk of information that I felt was irrelevant and did some research to expand upon the ecological points a little.... for clarity and relevance sake. Some of the information I found to be a little bit redundant.


Other then these 5 main points I added a couple of transitions or affects,but none that I felt were overly distracting or intimidating, just onesthat I thought would make the presentation a bit more enjoyable for theviewers. Overall, I just tried to keep the presentation as simple andclear as possible, while making it interesting.