You won't spend more than ten minutes on this quick seven point list, but you will realize that the Powerpoint on the screen is not the most important part of your presentation, you are.
Mr Maher's List: Powerpoint Presentation Skills
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Examples - What Bad PowerPoint does to people
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Nov 24, 10
Four and a half minute excerpt from stand-up comedian. This is a different way to deliver the same message - lots of laughs but very important observations
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Mar 21, 07
Another way to demonstrate how powerpoint can kill a message. This shows the "death by powerpoint" effect on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Show this to students and ask them what is wrong with it.
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Explanation - Why does PowerPoint hurt presentations?
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Mar 21, 07
Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. Short article that explains the pitfalls of powerpoint and demonstrates how slides distract the speaker from their primary goal
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Apr 27, 10
Short article offered in the hope that we all can be saved from really bad powerpoint presentations,
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Tips - How to Create Better Presentations
Some of these tips involve the design of slides themselves, but others speak to the crafting of the entire presentation. Fixing the slides is the least you can do for your audience, creating an entire presentation package is the least you can do for yourself
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Apr 12, 08
Presentation consultant Alexei Kapterev put together a must-see slideshow on creating great presentations. Hit the next button above to flip through it and see how to stop killing your audience with boring PowerPoint presentations. Using 61 slides in a presentation, this helps you think about the design of the presentation as a whole while at the same time modeling how individual slides can be designed to be truly effective.
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Apr 19, 10
Article with quick tips and a 5 min video from communications professor at Penn State. Video explains why common practices don't work.
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Dec 15, 07
Short, sweet and to the point. Should be reviewed for five minutes before even starting the process of designing a presentation.
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But the problem isn't Powerpoint, of course. The problem is bad content delivered poorly.
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Dec 15, 07
Article summarizes suggestions into two lists (i) Content - What You Say and (ii) Technique - How You Say It
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Respect the Narrative Arc. Every good story has a beginning, middle and end. The beginning promises the audience something, the middle threatens to take that promise away, and the end pays off on the promise (or, in the so-called ‘third act twist’, it doesn’t).
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Almost every student presentation misses the neccessity of telling a story through their presentation
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Jan 11, 11
General advice, from the planning process through stress reduction strategies
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Jan 11, 11
Don't rely on the dozen or so templates that come with Office. The very least you can do is look at the larger online library of templates that Microsoft provides.
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Jun 09, 11
Five pointers in short article to consider before even starting to put a presentation together
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Powerpoint tips and tricks and presentation skills resources
Updated on Jun 09, 11
Created on Apr 07, 08
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