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msivybox1. Keep it Simple PowerPoint uses slides with a horizontal or "Landscape" orientation. The software was designed as a convenient way to display graphical information that would support the speaker ...
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Joanne KraheTop Ten Slide Tips: describes how to create a presentation with slides to make the presentation the most effective, enjoyable, and understandable to the audience.
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Your slides should have plenty of "white space" or "negative space." Do not feel compelled to fill empty areas on your slide with your logo or other unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not contribute to better understanding. The less clutter you have on your slide, the more powerful your visual message will become.
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Instead of a copy of your PowerPoint slides, it is far better to prepare a written document which highlights your content from the presentation and expands on that content.
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No audience will be excited about a cookie-cutter presentation,
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Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts.
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You clearly need a consistent visual theme throughout your presentation, but most templates included in PowerPoint have been seen by your audience countless times (and besides, the templates are not all that great to begin with).
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people comprehend better when information is presented in small chunks or segments.
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Remember, the slides are meant to support the narration of the speaker, not make the speaker superfluous.
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If you will be presenting in a dark room (such as a large hall), then a dark background (dark blue, grey, etc.) with white or light text will work fine. But if you plan to keep most of the lights on (which is highly advisable) then a white background with black or dark text works much better. In rooms with a good deal of ambient light, a screen image with a dark background and light text tends to washout, but dark text on a light background will maintain its visual intensity a bit better.
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You can take your own high-quality photographs with your digital camera, purchase professional stock photography, or use the plethora of high-quality images available on line (be cautious of copyright issues, however).
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You can take your own high-quality photographs with your digital camera, purchase professional stock photography, or use the plethora of high-quality images available on line (be cautious of copyright issues, however).
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You can take your own high-quality photographs with your digital camera, purchase professional stock photography, or use the plethora of high-quality images available on line (be cautious of copyright issues, however).
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By getting out of the Slide View and into the Slide Sorter view, you can see how the logical flow of your presentation is progressing.
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But if they are good slides, they will be of little use without you.
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do not place transition effects between all slides.
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Mike OberdickPresentation tips for students and teachers
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The software was designed as a convenient way to display graphical information that would support the speaker and supplement the presentation
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Your slides should have plenty of "white space" or "negative space."
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The best slides may have no text at all
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the slides are meant to support the narration of the speaker, not make the speaker superfluous.
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Instead of a copy of your PowerPoint slides, it is far better to prepare a written document which highlights your content from the presentation and expands on that content.
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If you have a detailed handout or publication for the audience to be passed out after your talk, you need not feel compelled to fill your PowerPoint slides with a great deal of text.
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never, ever turn your back on the audience and read text from the slide word for word.
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Object builds (also called animations), such as bullet points, should not be animated on every slide.
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Use high-quality graphics including photographs
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Never simply stretch a small, low-resolution photo to make it fit your layout - doing so will degrade the resolution even further
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Avoid using PowerPoint Clip Art or other cartoonish line art
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today the inclusion of such clip art often undermines the professionalism of the presenter.
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photography of people tends to help the audience connect with the slide on a more emotional level
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photographic image is secondary in importance, then I decrease the opacity and add a Gaussian Blur or motion filter in Photoshop.
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photographic image is the primary area I want the audience to notice
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No audience will be excited about a cookie-cutter presentation, and we must therefore shy away from any supporting visuals, such as the ubiquitous PowerPoint Design Template, that suggests your presentation is formulaic or prepackaged.
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Always be asking yourself, "How much detail do I need?"
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Colors can be divided into two general categories: Cool (such as blue and green) and Warm (such as orange and red). Cool colors work best for backgrounds as they appear to recede away from us into the background. Warm colors generally work best for objects in the foreground (such as text) because they appear to be coming at us.
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If you will be presenting in a dark room (such as a large hall), then a dark background (dark blue, grey, etc.) with white or light text will work fine. But if you plan to keep most of the lights on (which is highly advisable) then a white background with black or dark text works much better. In rooms with a good deal of ambient light, a screen image with a dark background and light text tends to washout, but dark text on a light background will maintain its visual intensity a bit better.
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San-serif fonts are generally best for PowerPoint presentations, but try to avoid the ubiquitous Helvetica. I often choose to use Gill Sans as it is somewhere in between a serif and a sans-serif font and is professional yet friendly and "conversational." Regardless of what font you choose, make sure the text can be read from the back of the room.
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Using video clips to show concrete examples promotes active cognitive processing, which is the natural way people learn.
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Using a video clip not only will illustrate your point better, it will also serve as a change of pace thereby increasing the interest of your audience.
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Something to avoid, however, is cheesy sound effects that are included in PowerPoint
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The use of superfluous sound effects attached to animations is a sure way to lose credibility with your audience.
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people comprehend better when information is presented in small chunks or segment
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In this view you may decide to break up one slide into, say, two-three slides so that your presentation has a more natural and logical flow or process.
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Jim MooneyTop Ten Slide Tips
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The slides themselves were never meant to be the "star of the show" (the star, of course, is your audience
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Your slides should have plenty of "white space
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The less clutter you have on your slide, the more powerful your visual message will become
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the slides are meant to support the narration of the speaker, not make the speaker superfluous
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Use object builds and slide transitions judiciously
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For transitions between slides, use no more than two-three different types of transition effects and do not place transition effects between all slides
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Use high-quality graphics including photographs
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decrease the opacity and add a Gaussian Blur or motion filter in Photoshop
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Jacqueline WrightIf presentation is power point for projects, these criteria will be needed.
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Madeleine JohnsonThis site gives tips on effective power point presentations
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Constant LearnGood pointers on creating slides that aren't overloaded with text.
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Jo TimerickPresentation advice - top ten slide tips
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Laura BriggsGood information that could be used to design power point presentation rubrics and insruction for students.
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Steve Murrayerif fonts are said to be easier to read at small point sizes, but for on screen presentations the serifs tend to get lost due to the relatively low resolution of projec
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