- Thou shalt not use dark backgrounds
- Thou shalt use dark non-Comic Sans fonts.
- Thou shalt not use large font on text-only slides yet include diagrams and pictures with tiny text and captions.
- Thou shalt not force us to print three slides to a page with space for notes (which we don’t even use because we take notes on the picture of the slide anyway.)
- Thou shalt not give us a 2-slide-per-page PDF that forces us to print out notes with lots of white space.
- Thou shalt upload notes a week prior to lecture.
- Thou shalt give lecture objectives before the lecture commences.
- When one sends to notes to the copy maker, thou shalt be sure that they do not omit pages nor misplace large tracts of pages.
- Thou shalt not include redundant slides in the printed handouts that are in your presentation “just to make a point”.
- Thou shalt not include graphics that depend on color for readability.
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The common practice is actually to have a darker background and light text. And as much papyrus as is needed.