Effective PowerPoint Presentations

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Effective PowerPoint Presentations
Senior Binder P. 41 Mrs. McNulty and Mrs. Kettle
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What is the point?

• More interesting
• Reinforce key points
• Keep audience focused on key points

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Four steps to an effective PowerPoint
presentation

• Create a good outline.
• Create a clear, easy to follow presentation
• Practice your presentation
• Deliver your presentation with confidence

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Creating a good outline

• List the key points
• Put in logical order
• Create an interesting beginning
• Create an ending/summary
• Type your outline into PowerPoint

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Top 5 Power Point Tips1. Use the Templates

• Utilize professional designs
• Avoid background changes
• Balance images and text
• Contrast light text on dark slide

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Top 5 Power Point Tips1. Use the Templates

• Professionally designed
• Avoid background changes
• Balance images and text
• Contrast light text on dark slide

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2. Include Main Points

• Include main points only
• Use the screen as a reference
• Avoid reading to judges
• Choose words carefully

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3. Use Few Words

• If there is too much information on the screen,
  people cannot focus an anything in particular.
  The judges will do what you are doing right now.
  Theyll read the screen and ignore what you are
  saying.
• Keep need to know information, remove nice to
  know information. Otherwise, your judges will
  ignore you while they read. Do you see what I
  mean? Make your bullet points short, and to the
  point. Make every word count!

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Keep Appearance Clean

• DO NOT USE ALL CAPS!
• Eliminate unnecessary clip art.
• Eliminate all sounds.
• Balance clip art and text.
• Be consistent with punctuation.

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5. Proofread!

• Spell check fails
• Their, there, theyre
• Its, its
• Capitalization inconsistencies
• All words in title
• First word of bullets
• All proper nouns

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Practice Your Presentation

• Print an outline
• Choose File - Print - Copies Pages - Print
  what? - outline (or 6 slides per page)
• Practice, practice, practice!
• Use a mirror.
• Use your parents.
• Use your friends.

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Preparing for Rehearsal Day

• PLEASE - Use school computers
• If you must use a home computer
• Save work on CD or external drive
• Load work at school
• Proofread at school
• Make no more changes at home
• Leave your hardware at home!

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Delivery on Board Day

• Introduce yourself
• Shake hands with judges
• Do NOT talk to the screen!
• Slow down - dont rush
• Avoid the word um
• Use eye contact

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Conclusion

• Sum up main points
• Answer questions
• Thank judges
• Leave PPT on screen
• Breathe a sigh of relief - YOURE DONE!