Introduction to Power Point

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Introduction to Power Point

• Design Tips
• (last modified 2008)

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Contents

• Fonts
• Type
• size
• color
• Images
• Colors / Size
• Problems

• Sounds
• Size
• Bells
• Videos
• Size
• Colors
• Other Tips

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Font Size

• 12 pt abcABC123
• 14 pt abcABC123
• 18 pt abcABC123
• 24 pt abcABC123
• 28 pt abcABC123
• 32 pt abcABC123
• 36 pt abcABC123
• 44 pt abcABC123

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Font Types

• Use sans serif fonts such as Arial
• Do not mix fonts.
• This is 24 pt, Arial abcABC123
• This is 24 pt, Times New Roman abcABC123
• This is 24 pt, Courier New abcABC123
• This is 24 pt, Goudy Handtooled abcABC123
• This is 24 pt, Brush Script abcABC123
• This is 24 pt, Franklin Gothic abcABC123

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Font Colors

• Use high color contrast

TEXT FIELDS IN UPPERCASE CAUSE EYE STRAIN
RED AND BLUE IS HARD ON THE RETINA!
This Text field is too flashy
Italics are harder to read than straight fonts
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Font Color
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Image Color and Size

• 256 colors
• Enlarging bitmaps does not increase resolution.
• Slides with too many cute pictures are
  distracting.
• Images with widely different palettes may
  flash(True in past with Bitmaps, no longer a
  problem.)

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Image Color Problems
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Background Problems
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Sounds

• Use short clips (less than 10 seconds)
• Avoid repetitive sound effects, specially during
  transitions.
• Repetitive transition effects can also be
  distracting
• Tip. To edit clips, use Right-Mouse-Click

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Video

• Video files can get to be very large
• Install the QuickTime driver on PCs.
• Click on the pause button to get the time bar to
  stay. Right-Mouse-Click to edit clip.

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Other Tips

• PowerPoint supports Cut and Paste
• Do not over-pace presentations
• Avoid crowded slides
• Too many bullets can be deadly

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Electrons as "Matter Waves"
1) Based on deBroglie's ideas, Werner Heizenberg
Irwin Schrodinger independently developed
mathematical models that formulated the laws that
govern matter. 2) Schrodinger modified
equations already developed to describe the
behavior of electromagnetic waves and applied
them to the behavior of the electron in
hydrogen. 3) Schrodinger's results were in
excellent agreement with experimental
observations. However, his solutions require the
existence of three quantum numbers. By contrast,
Bohr's model could not explain the existence of
any quantum numbers.
Too many words
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Summary

• Use large Sans Serif Fonts
• Use high contrast text fields
• Use clear images.
• Do not overuse embellisments.
• Avoid overcrowded slides
• Beware of information overload.

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End
Contributors Dr. Charles Ward Dr. James Reeves
Dr. Russ Herman Dr. Gabriel Lugo Dr. Ron Vetter