Power Point Presentations

• 1. Designing Presentations Mr. Dooley

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• Remember what you know about presenting

• Designing Slides

• Slide Content

• Slide Text

• Slide Media

3.

• Swept away by the technology, it is all too easy to spend all your effort on fine-tuning that killer graphic and forget the basics of presenting such as

• • Tell em what you are going to tell em

• • Tell em

• • Tell em what you told em

4.

• Bad PowerPoint presentations are memorable!

• • How often have you tried to read paragraphs of text that whiz by as the presenter seems to be talking about something else entirely?

• The reasons why these sorts of presentations make it to viewing is because the presenter does not view them from the audiences perspective or they have done them quickly.

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• Limit number of points per page

• Limit amount of information

• Concise

• Points can

• • Prompt

• • Illustrate ( for example , here is one , etc.)

• • Summarize ( the main features are )

• Dont use slides as lecture notes

• • Overviews

• • Concepts

• • Processes

6.

• Use large font ~ 24 point

• Light text on a dark background & vice versa

• High Contrast

• Make sure it is easy to read by picking the right font type

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• Lewis, G. Designing Presentations withPowerPoint. 2007, Accessed November 27, 2007.