PowerPoint+Overload

media type="custom" key="5500495" This is an example of audio and less text in powerpoint presentations.

This is an example of a slide show that understands the Modality Principle from Five ways to reduce Powerpoint overload by Atkinson and Mayer. Here is a link to the article [].

Modality is the limiting of words/texts on a powerpoint slide. This means you can take the text and put it into and audio file opposed to leaving mass amounts of text on the powerpoint screen.

Using this video, we are able to show how many students and teachers would overlook the copyrights and just go right in and grab anything they want off the internet and make it their own.

This is a great example of using less text in a powerpoint. Yes there are many big busy pictures, but it is a screen shot in order to better describe the issue. The speaker discusses the screen shot in detail in order to take the emphasis off of the screen.