Tutorial: From Print to Presentation

This post will not be nearly as interesting as my awesome Jing video earlier in the semester, but seeing as I have no voice, am sitting at the desk at work until midnight and still can't figure out how to post sound to my Prezi, I will just have to write this out in blog form.

I thought transforming my pen PWS into a presentation would be easy! It took a lot more than just figuring out the program and posting some pictures along with the text, though.

We learned design aspects, CRAP, for contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity. Having narrative coherence was not enough to create an attractive presentation, but that's also important. You also have to make sure you relate what you are saying to your audience - talk in a way that will get them to believe and really get into what you're saying.

Anyway, back to design principles of CRAP. These principles help you put everything you want to get across to your audience into a professional, eye catching presentation that makes sense visually as well as textually. Here is a more detailed explanation of CRAP:

C - Use contrast to emphasize things like different colors and SIZES. 
R - Repeating phrases and like images help make your presentation consistent and memorable.
A - Choose one alignment for document/slides, and don't center align block quotes = hard to read!! 
P - Put things that go together close to each other. Likewise, things that don't go together shouldn't be near each other!

I added media, a sound file that I am still fighting with, and some cool made-up statistics on my presentation, and we have Claremont the Pen!!