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Death by PowerPoint

Power Point 2007Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations while

integrating security-enhanced workflow and ways to easily share this information. Here are the top 10 ways that Office PowerPoint 2007 helps users increase productivity and improve

collaboration. Get better results faster with the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.The redesigned look and feel of the

Office Fluent user interface makes creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience. Rich features and capabilities are presented in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizes distraction and enables people to achieve the results they want more quickly and easily.

Create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams.Easily create high-impact and dynamic workflow, relationship, or hierarchy diagrams from within Office PowerPoint 2007. You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram, or modify and update existing diagrams. It’s easy for users to take advantage of rich formatting options with new contextual diagramming menus.

Easily reuse content with Office PowerPoint 2007 Slide Libraries.Wish there was a better way to reuse content from one presentation to another? With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, you can store presentations as individual slides on a site supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and easily repurpose the content later within Office PowerPoint 2007. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert can remain synchronized with the server version, so your content is always up to date.

Communicate with users across platforms and devices.Help ensure broad communication with your PowerPoint presentations by converting your files to XPS and PDF files for sharing with users on any platform.1

10 Reasons to try• Get better results faster with the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.• Create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams.• Easily reuse content with Office PowerPoint 2007 Slide Libraries.• Communicate with users across platforms and devices.• Use custom layouts to assemble presentations more quickly.• Accelerate your review processes using Office PowerPoint 2007 and

Office SharePoint Server 2007.• Uniformly format your presentations with Document Themes.• Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new SmartArt

graphics tools and effects.• Add more security to your PowerPoint presentations.• Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time.

Посмотрите PowerPoint 2007

• Посмотрите Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 в работе. Эта демонстрация показывает, как с помощью PowerPoint 2007 можно быстро создавать динамические и высокоэффективные презентации, используя новые графические возможности, средства форматирования и функции совместного использования данных, которые представлены в удобном пользовательском интерфейсе Microsoft Office Fluent.

• Примечание. Для запуска демонстрации требуется проигрыватель Для оптимального качества просмотра используйте подключение к Интернету, имеющее скорость 56 кбит/с или выше, и установите разрешение экрана 800 x 600 точек или более высокое.

Who is the presenter?

Who is the presenter?

PowerPoint should be used...

To visualize ideas To create key points

HOW?

Simplicity!

Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler“

“

(Kapterev, 2007)

Four Simple Design Rules

One Point per Slide

How much does a slide cost?

0.00 €

Few Matching Colours

If you can’t use color wisely, it is best to avoid it entirely. Above all, do no harm

If you can’t use color wisely, it is best to avoid it entirely. Above all, do no harm

If you can’t use color wisely, it is best to avoid it entirely. Above all, do no harm

(Kapterev, 2007)

Very Few Fonts

- Rick Poynor, design critic and author

“Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.”

“Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.”

- Rick Poynor, design critic and author

(Kapterev, 2007)

Photos, not Cliparts

We don’t pay attention to boring things

We have better recall for visual information

Make it BIG to reach

the last row and

impress

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2

3

4

One Point per slide

Few Matching Colors

Very Few Fonts

Photos, not Cliparts

Death-by PowerPoint

is so common that it’s

just considered

“normal.”

(Reynolds, 2010)

Don’t be a wuss!

-- Be bold!

(Reynolds, 2010)

References

[1]Reynolds, Garr (2010): Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations (1st edition); New Riders

[2] Alexei Kapterev (2007): http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-05-18&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email