PowerPoint+Overload

The information on this page is based on the article "Five Ways to Reduce PowerPoint Overload" by Cliff Atkinson and Richard Mayer (2004). You can access the article at [].

The Signaling Principle takes the emphasis off of a generic title and puts it on the content of the slide. The purpose is to give the audience a better idea of the content on a slide rather than a lack of information one would receive from a standard title.

"Instead of writing a Title, write a Headlinethat explains the main idea of every slide. Just as in newspapers, write your PowerPoint headlines in activevoice, with a subject and verb. Summarize the single overriding idea of the slide in clear and conversational language. This process of writing a headline will help you distill and clarify your own thinking about your topic." Atkinson pg. 10

media type="custom" key="4577880" This powerpoint is strictly about addition. I felt this was a good example of the signaling principle because it is organized with clear outlines and headings and is also straight forward with important detail. The titles of each slide make the audience understand what information is being showed and the concept of the slide. For example, one of the slides says "What does addition mean?" and then the next slide is "Now let's try addition". These slides all tie together in an organized way just with better titles to understand what exactly is going on in each separate slide.This powerpoint is all about addition how to do it and it shows you pictures on how exactly to add if you are unaware. it also tells you about what addition is.AB

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This PowerPoint discusses the characteristics of mammals. It further describes the differences between many different kinds of mammals. The PowerPoint is also a good example of The Signaling Principle. The titles of the slides are not one word titles that do not lead us into the content of slide itself. Each slide has a headline style title that gives the student a good idea of what material will be covered on the page. This allows a student to prepare for the material and make connections with the information it is that they are reading. -D3

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This power point is about Science in the Elementary education. I felt this was a good example of the single principle because the headings were strictly only about what that slide was going to talk about. For an example "Changing in the sicence teaching" was only about how teachers are changing there ways of teaching science. This power point was only about Science and its uses in elementary education.