The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

The Ten Commandmentsfor Presentation Software

Speak to

your audience

before launching your visuals

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Keep eye contact primarily with your audience, not with your visual aids.

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Avoid verbatim reading of your slides

4 Keep text to a minimum; let images and graphics illustrate and dramatize your points.

Use a font style that is simple and large enough (generally sans serif styles at least 20-24 points) to be read at a distance.

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Use a font style that is simple and large enough (generally sans serif styles at least 20-24 points) to be read at a distance.

Use a font style that is simple and large enough (generally sans serif styles at least 20-24 points) to be read at a distance.

6Bullet Point Discipline

Keep the number of points 3-5 per slide

A screen is not as easy to read as print

A long list is harder to parse visually

How many minutes will you talk per bullet?

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Ensure consistent syntax on each slide

Ensure consistency of syntax for each slide

Ensuring syntactical consistency per slide

8 Take time to introduce - and pause to allow the audience time to absorb - any - complex information (e.g., from a graph or chart).

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9Put Your Titles to Work!

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Reclaim the Spotlight!

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Sources

The 10 Commandments of PowerPoint http://power-points.blogspot.com/2005/09/10-commandments-of-powerpoint.html

Hawk Eye photograph http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/162116759

Don McMillan video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cagxPlVqrtM

Mandala photograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chenrezig_Sand_Mandala.jpg