HIST 340: Seeing Black: African Americans & US Visual Culture: Presentation Prep

General Tips about Slide Design and Content

PLTC - How to Enhance Your PowerPoint Presentation

Slide Design for Developers

Content Tips

How to Create Awesome Diagrams for Your Slides

Color Pickers

Color Schemer

Colour Lovers

Note that your assignment does not specify what form your visuals need to be. You could use images, video clips, physical print-outs, presentation slides and more.

Create a storyboard or two

Storyboards are enhanced outlines. Like standard outlines, they can help focus and define your argument, but they also track other elements, such as time and visuals. Storyboards aren't set in stone. They're working documents you can return to as your project evolves. If necessary, they can help you refocus if you run out of time and need to change your project. Storyboards help you:

• Quickly try different design ideas
• Identify resources - do you have them? do you need to look for them?
• Check if you're meeting all the assignment's requirements.

Here's an example of a very rough and vague one below.

Visuals
Visuals (Desc)			Classic clip
Content Points to Make	Intro topic	Intro Source 1	Source 1: Video
Time	0-15s	30s	1 min
Notes			Still don't know which classic clip I'm going to use.