Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Special Topics Presentation

My special topic presentation was on cognition (my partner was Kevin Clear). The title slide and first ten slides were my contribution.

Here are images from the presentation:





















Analyzing based on connotation, attributes, and placement:
Cognition is all about how the brain processes and makes sense and knowledge from information, so I chose to represent this in our presentation through the image of the brain.

For each slide, we first showed the image large and full screen so viewers can take it in without limiting the image, and then the second slide repeats the image in a smaller size to reinforce that that is the image being discussed, and the right half of the slide provides the analysis and understanding of the importance of the image. I repeated the brain image in the background of that right half of the slide because that is the part where the cognition occurs, so that image is placed behind that section to make it clear in a subtle and simple way to the viewer that the point of that part of the slide is to make the brain work to understand the image and all of its components and significance. The overall theme works to really make the cognition happen in a simple and clear way, and the design reinforces that.

The placement of the image is large and centered on the slide where it first is presented, and smaller and centered on the left portion of the slide on the second slide where it is presented. The text is left aligned and presented in bullet points to make different facts stand out in the overall presentation of the information. There is a green line separating the image from the text and showing that they are separate sections, but not totally so, as they are on one slide and correlated through the information presented.

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