JLGO: Florida Senate Bill 852

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Junior League of Greater Orlando, leadership, work samples

Early this morning, I received an urgent email asking me to put together a short video promoting Senate Bill 852: the Healthy Food Retail Act.  I only had two hours to create this (so, of course, my Type-A obsessive-compulsiveness is kicking in right now as I wish I could have worked on it for much longer), but the video is important because we must take urgent action on Senate Bill 852 by this Friday, March 9, 2012.

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Calling all Floridians!  Please visit  http://www.flsenate.gov/senators/find    to urge your Senator to support Senate Bill 852: The Healthy Food Retail Act.

7 Deadly Sins of Visual Design Preview

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7 deadly sins of visual design, presentation design, public speaking, visual presentation

My fellow superteacher Chiara Ojeda and I made a pact to push outside of our comfort zones in the next few months.  A superteacher is always willing to take a chance in order to learn, try, and teach something new!  Chiara will be teaching the Delivery Workshop next month (my personal favorite leg of the presentation stool), and tomorrow, I will be teaching the Visual Design Workshop (her area of expertise).

I’ve spent at least 20 hours so far building this brand new workshop for my students, and we’re learning about visual design with a 7 deadly sins theme.  We’re going to “start with why” a la Simon Sinek and discuss the old and new models of creating slideshows.  Next, we’ll move into the 7 Deadly Sins of Visual Design lecture.  Last, we’ll go through a “How To” tutorial for a few important visual design basics: how to use Compfight and DaFont, how to put multimedia into a slide, how to use “shapes” and “alpha” and “adjust,” and many other goodies.

I’ll be doing a full write up on each of the deadly sins for a 7-part Design Tip of the Day series coming soon.

What are your visual design no-nos?