Author Archives: Pei-Hsuan Lin

About Pei-Hsuan Lin

An enthusiastic k-12 educator, a life-long learner, and a team player who loves to walk students through their learning journey.

What do languages have in common?

Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age— almost as soon as we start to communicate in sentences. How is this possible? In the early 1950s, Noam Chomsky proposed a theory that the key to this versatility was grammar. Cameron Morin details Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar. How do the scholars’ views nowadays?

Here’s an interesting video.

How do our brains process language?

The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which of those thousands of options matches the signal? And about 98% of the time, the brain chooses the correct word. How is this possible? Gareth Gaskell digs into the complexities of speech comprehension.

Now, let’s watch this video!

10 Suggestions on making a better slide show

Put it in Presentation Mode

vs. FULL SCREEN

a wonderful viual aid[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5uGyuxj8d4]

2. Cut Way Back on Your Text

Slides are meant to supplement and enhance your presentation, to provide visual interest and add new dimensions to your message. The slides themselves shouldn’t BE the presentation.

Shorten your bullet points. Instead of writing long sentences or phrases on your slides, try sticking to just short phrases.
Make more slides. Take one slide that has a lot of information and spread that text over several slides, rather than cramming it all together on one.
Create a handout. Many presenters and instructors want to put lots of information on their slides so they can provide those slides to students or audience members after the presentation, for reference.

3. Update Your Assets

One of the simplest ways to improve your slideshows is to update outdated artwork and fonts.

4. Create Previews & Signposts

It’s difficult to sit through a presentation when you really have no idea how long it’s going to be or how many major points are going to be covered. If you let your audience know they are in the capable hands of a presenter who has put together a well-organized presentation, they’ll be able to relax and concentrate on your message.

5. Go Light on the Animations

Ideally, the focus is on your words/content, not on the way those words bounce onto the screen. So when it comes to animations, less is definitely more.

6. Keep Things Consistent

Within each slide and from slide to slide, do whatever you can to keep your elements consistent. Doing so will make your presentation look much more professional, which will give you more confidence as a speaker and will give your audience a lot more confidence in you.

7. Proofed …OUT LOUD