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The following are some other questions to ask yourself when you are selecting pictures, photos, clip art, and video clips.
Why Am I Adding This Picture?
Some ways to get at the answer to this question include asking more specific questions, such as the following:
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The examples in Figures 5.20 to 5.23 illustrate how pictures, when carefully selected, are more interesting than text.
Figure 5.20 (below) is a typical "before" text slide. There are headings for the solutions, but the information could have been grouped on the page with more space between points. As it is now, it doesn't invite the eye to look at it and see these as four solutions.
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Figure 5.21 shows the same slide with a photo added. Now the solutions are easier to see and the slide is more inviting to look at and discuss. Also, some of the words have been deleted.
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Figure 5.22 only uses words. It is hard to visualize the problem teeth. The picture on the "after" slide, Figure 5.23, makes the words on the page come alive.
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Am I Prepared to Explain and Comment on the Picture?
Have you ever suffered through a presentation in which the presenter showed many pictures one after the other, but never explained the point of each one? A picture may be worth a thousand words, but unless it is given context and meaning, it can be a different thousand words to everyone in the audience. Every picture needs to be accompanied by a title or phrase that makes the point and by an explanation from you.
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