Preparation

Preparing your visuals

In this page, you will find guidelines and instructions to prepare your visuals for your microlecture . This page is self-study. If any questions come up, do not hesitate to contact your course trainers.

Slides

The slides will be seen by your audience, so they deserve some love and attention. For a start: by giving all your lectures a similar look and feel, they help your audience see these lectures as belonging together. Also, by using the slide area, text and graphic elements consistently, you create an harmonious and predictable viewing experience.

When recording a microlecture based on a PowerPoint, you should leave some space available for yourself in the video. One way to ensure this, is to use the Microlecture Template. This template already has a marked area where you can stand. Of course, you can also use your own template if you leave space for yourself.

Microlecture Template

When creating your own slides. Please make sure that your slides are Widescreen (Also known as 16:9) dimensions. You can check this by going to the 'Design' tab in Powerpoint and then going to slide size.

Copyright

When using graphics in your video, please keep the copyright of the visuals that you are using. It is best to use visuals you've made yourself or to use visuals that you know the copyright status of. The video down below gives a short explanation about copyright. For more information about Copyright, you can refer to the UT Lisa site and the information page about copyrighted educational material.

A way to find images with a clear copyright status without payment, is to make use of stock websites. While these websites are useful, there are a few things to be aware of:

Several of these sites make their money by also suggesting photo’s on other, paid-for stock photo sites. The distinction is sometimes quite blurry (for obvious reasons).
Several of these sites offer both free and paid content. Make sure you filter accordingly.
These sites are listed here as a convenience. However, you yourself are always responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions/licenses/attributions for use.
Sites like these come and go. Some on the list may not be actively maintained, or may disappear completely.

Keeping this in mind, a list of examples of stock websites can be found below.

Resources for graphics

Flickr photos with Creative Commons license (General)
Google search: free stock photography (General)
Noun Project (Icons)
Pixabay (Large Collections)
Pexels (Large Collections)
VEXELS (Vectors)
Mazwai (Videos)

Checklist

Please take a look at this checklist before and after your design. These guidelines may help you to make your graphics more effective and professional looking. Do not feel obliged to incorporate every point in the checklist.

Checklist Visuals.docx

Quick Links

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