JM2010: Contributed Paper: Engaging Users with Powerful Visuals on the Cheap!
Posted on March 5, 2010 by ebrennan | 1 Comment
By Carol Ann Attwood, MLS, AHIP, MPH, RN, Consumer Patient and Health Education Library, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona
Engaging Users with Powerful Visuals – on the Cheap!
Ms. Ham noted that most medical librarians are involved in some way with teaching differing groups of users, and that graphic images implanted in a presentation can heighten interest, promote communication and enhance understanding.
Several software programs were displayed including free resources like Picasa® (free photo editing) to change size, orientation, brightness of photos, Snag It® (improved screen print capture with the ability to right size the screen print and the ability to capture the scrolling of a website), and video tutorials software (Jing®) which assists with the creation of video tutorials. Jing can be used to see a screen action, while simultaneously hearing voice instruction and can be shared by email, or embedded in a blog or website.
For further information, check out these books:
- Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire by Cliff Atkinson
- Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint by Jane Bozarth
Also, the NIH has an image library that is free and can be utilized to add anatomic illustrations to presentations.
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 3:05 pm
Check out the slides (with the Kelli’s speaker notes) at: http://nnlm.gov/psr/pdf/Engaging_Users_with_Powerful_Visuals.pdf