How to create an effective PowerPoint P resentation

1. By Please Don’t Put Me to Sleep Flores How to create an effective PowerPoint Presentation

2. Why? An effective PP: • grabs your audience’s attention • Is visually appealing • Highlights key points

3. Don’t • Place too much information on the screen • PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a device that has become obsolete with the use of PowerPoint and other presentation software. Slides may contain text, graphics, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely on the slide. PowerPoint, however, facilitates the use of a consistent style in a presentation using a template or "Slide Master". • The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts. • PowerPoint provides three types of movements: • Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations • Transitions, on the other hand are movements between slides. These can be animated in a variety of ways • Custom animation can be used to create small story boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move

4. Was this your expression when you saw the previous slide?

5. Don’t • Foreground information cannot be seen because of background.

6. Don’t Foreground information cannot be seen because of background.

7. Don’t Cut and paste information. It is VERY evident if you did not write it, because • the format is not PP friendly • you stumble over the sentences • You can’t pronounce words • You do not really know your stuff

8. Don’t • Read verbatim from your PP • It’s boring……………… • PP bullets are meant to highlight your info- not serve as a sophisticated script.

9. Don’t • Use font that is too small or illegible • Make font and size audience friendly

10. Don’t • Use a font that is too small or illegible • Make font and size audience friendly

11. DO • Choose backgrounds that go with the topic

12. DO • Rewrite your information in a way that is PP friendly • Use bullets • Have info come in at your request ( not automatically). This stops people from reading ahead and helps you control the attention of the audience

13. DO • Use this format for compare and contrast • OR • For information with a picture

14. DO • Be familiar with your information. • If you wrote it, then this should not be a problem • Choose only information that is relative to your topic. • Just as with any research paper, you need to pick and choose your information carefully

15. DO • Use color wisely. Keep it visually uniform

16. DO • Have an ending. • A final picture, video or quote. • Universal truth, anyone?

17. Not……………… THE END

18. Unless

19. Do Use lots of pictures to: • Illustrate your point • Serve as proof/evidence • Add comedic relief for a boring topic ( be careful with this).

20. For the guys…. For the gals…

21. For Mrs. Flores

22. Do • A slide without a picture is………………………..

23. BORING

24. Now go forth young IB students and create interesting and visually appealing power points.