overhead transparencies

Clear lecture sheets

Overhead transparencies are clear plastic sheets designed for use with an overhead projector.

Text or images printed or drawn on the transparency are projected onto a screen or wall for group viewing.

Before digital presentations became standard, transparencies were ubiquitous in classrooms and business meetings: She prepared a stack of overhead transparencies for her lecture.

Related

flip chart · display · visual aid · illumination · image · marker pens · clarity · teaching aids · teacher's desk · visual communication · whiteboard · instructional materials · school supplies · laser pointer · document camera · lecture hall · interactive displays · light source

Opposites
presentation technology format

overhead transparenciesPowerPoint

Microsoft's presentation application

Google Slides · Keynote · Prezi · interactive whiteboards · screen sharing

presentation medium materiality

overhead transparenciesstreaming content

Media played via internet

presentation format

overhead transparencieshandouts

Items distributed freely

printed materials · flipcharts · chalkboard

Family

overhead, transparencies, over, head, transparency, transparent, transparently, heads, headed

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G