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Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations, Second Edition
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Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations, Second Edition

by Garr Reynolds
December 2013
Beginner
288 pages
7h 54m
English
New Riders
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4. Using Images to Tell Stories

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When I was 17, I created my first multimedia presentation. It consisted of slides for a big project for my high school biology class. The presentation was on issues related to the effects of pollution on the environment. The slide show was a visual affirmation of all the natural beauty around us juxtaposed with the needless manmade destruction to showcase the hypocrisy of human actions.

I created this presentation before the dawn of the digital age, when personal computers were not yet used in schools. So, when I say slides I mean real slides: 35mm transparencies that loaded into a round slide projector called ...

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