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PowerPoint Dos and Don’ts

Learn how to create effective PowerPoint presentations by following these dos and don'ts. Keep your slides simple, use contrasting colors, and tell an interesting story. Avoid reading from your slides and make sure to practice.

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PowerPoint Dos and Don’ts

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  1. PowerPoint Dos and Don’ts

  2. 1. Have an interesting story to tell* • Slides are meant to support a spoken presentation. • Fancy graphics are nice, but remember the audience is here to listen to YOU! • So you better have an interesting student to tell. *Adapted from “Presenting with PowerPoint: 10 dos and don’ts” by Jeff Wuorio (http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-us/resources/technology/business-software/powerpoint-tips.aspx?fbid=3WR5ENijl0y#Powerpointtips)

  3. 2. Keep your presentation simple • Keep text simple and concise. • Use clear, easy to read graphs and tables. • Keep animation to a minimum. • Black and white never goes out of style.

  4. Research Questions • Given that savings banks were new in the United States during the first half of the 19th century, I am curious what kinds of people would make the leap to open a bank account? • Since information was likely not complete about the risks involved with holding savings at a formal financial institution, what proportion of people actually trusted what was in essence a new technology and opened an account?

  5. Research Questions • What proportion of the targeted working class population did early American savings banks serve? • What types of individuals selected into formal savings when given the opportunity?

  6. 3. Minimize Numbers in Slides • Use figures and graphs to present summary statistics when possible • Present only relevant numbers from tables

  7. Data Overview • Number of observations : 435 • Period of data collecting : 20-28 February 2011

  8. Results Control: Company size, Temporary type, Unemployment Rate, Employment Regulation

  9. 4. Don’t Parrot PowerPoint • In other words, don’t read your slides word for word!!! • Remember, PowerPoint is there to visually enhance your spoken presentation, not to be your presentation.

  10. During 2003-2005, Thailand imported about 90% of its crude oil or 870,000 bbl/d about $10,000 mil/y • But import value increased to $600 mil during Jan-Mar 2005 which affected balance of trade and GDP. Source : http://www.somalitalk.com/oil/yabarow.html

  11. Source : http://www.somalitalk.com/oil/yabarow.html

  12. 5. Time Your Remarks • Don’t talk about the slide before it appears on screen. • Don’t assume the audience can figure it out on their own. • Do allow the audience to digest the contents of the slides.

  13. Empirical ApproachPIH Regression

  14. ResultsPIH Regressions

  15. 6. Use Contrasting Colors • Choose a light background • Use dark, large font • Use contrasting colors in graphs and charts • Don’t use a dark background with light font!!!

  16. DotA game • 2 team, maximum of 5 each, fighting another • Objective is to destroy enemy key building • Keep exp point and gold to get better level and better equipment than opponent • Each game take about 30 – 60 minute • Heavily depend on player skill and teamwork

  17. Panic of 1837 Depression Initial Recovery

  18. 7. Know Your Time Limit • Rule of thumb: 1 text slide per two to three minutes. • A 15 minute conference presentation should have 5 to 10 substantive slides.

  19. 8. Edit Ruthlessly • Treat your presentation like you treat a term paper. Proofread, proofread, proofread!

  20. 9. Practice • Practice, practice, practice! • Running through your presentation several times allows you to check for flow and coherence.

  21. 10. Economics presentations are boring, but you don’t have to be • Introduction • Literature Review • Model • Data • Results • Conclusions and Discussion

  22. The relationship between class size and student performance - YY -

  23. Research Question • Do students in smaller classes perform better?

  24. Previous Literature • Thai data showed no effect of class size on students math scores (ZZZ, 1989; ZZZ and AAA, 1991) – data seize 400 students, 1995 • A survey of Taiwanese students showed that students in smaller classes performed better in English TOEFL scores (Gruber, 1992a) – panel data, 1980-1990 • This paper: Using california data, we find that smaller class rooms do have positive effect in testscores (420 schools, 1995)

  25. The Case ofSmall Classes • Large classrooms in public schools has been blamed for their weaker performance in national exams. • The government is thinking about increasing the budget for making more classrooms in public schools.

  26. The Model • I use simple ols • Testscore = a + b*str • But also control for endogeneity by multiple regression • Testscore = a + b1*str + b2 *el_pct

  27. Data • n = 400 schools, California 1995 Testscr str el_pct • Mean 654.16 19.640 15.768 • SD 19.053 1.8918 18.286

  28. Results

  29. Conclusion • Reducing class size by 1 student will increase testscore by 1.1 on average. • Comparing benefits and costs across Californian schools, we calculate that there is good evidence to increase budget for public schools.

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