Making PowerPoint Slides

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Making PowerPoint Slides

• Avoiding Bad Slides

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What are we learning about?

• Lesson Objectives
• Presenting Skills
• PowerPoint Tips
• Questions

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Presenting Skills

• Avoid reading the presentation
• -The text should be a cue for the presenter
• Give a brief overview first
• Present the information next
• Conclude by reviewing important points

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Presenting Skills
More

• Look presentable
• Project your voice
• Be energetic, walk around
• Make eye contact
• Involve your audience

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PowerPoint Tips

• Outlines
• Slide Structure
• Fonts
• Color
• Background
• Spelling Grammar
• Conclusions
• Questions

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Outline

• Make your 2nd slide an outline of your
  presentation
• Ex previous slide
• Only place main points on the outline slide
• Ex Use your main points as the titles of each
  slide
• Follow the order of your outline for the rest of
  the presentation

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Slide Structure Good

• Show one point at a time
• Avoid wordiness use key words and phrases
• Follow the 7 by 7 Rule
• Include an idea per slide
• Use visuals that represent your points

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Slide Structure - Bad

• This page contains too many words for a
  presentation slide. It is not written in point
  form, making it difficult both for your audience
  to read and for you to present each point.
  Although there are exactly the same number of
  points on this slide as the previous slide, it
  looks much more complicated. In short, your
  audience will spend too much time trying to read
  this paragraph instead of listening to you.

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Fonts - Good

• Use at least a 24-point font
• Use different size fonts for main points and
  secondary points
• this font is 24-point, the main point font is
  28-point, and the title font is 36-point
• Use a standard font like Times New Roman or Arial

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Fonts - Bad

• Dont use a complicated font
• If you use a small font, your audience wont be
  able to read what you have written
• CAPITALIZE ONLY WHEN NECESSARY. IT IS DIFFICULT
  TO READ

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Color - Good

• Use a color of font that contrasts sharply with
  the background
• Ex blue font on white background
• Use color to reinforce the logic of your
  structure
• Ex light blue title and dark blue text
• Use color to emphasize a point
• But only use this occasionally

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Color - Bad

• A font color that does not contrast with the
  background color is hard to read
• Color for decoration is distracting and annoying
• A different color for each point is unnecessary
• Trying to be creative can also be bad

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Background - Good

• Use backgrounds such as this one that are
  attractive but simple
• Use backgrounds which are light
• Use the same background consistently throughout
  your presentation

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Background Bad

• Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or
  difficult to read from
• Avoid distracting animation

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Spelling and Grammar

• Proof your slides for
• speling mistakes
• the use of of repeated words
• grammatical errors you might have make

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Conclusion

• Avoid ending a presentation abruptly
• Use a strong closing summarizing the main points

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Questions?

• End your presentation with a question slide
• to invite your audience to ask questions
• For more tips on PowerPoint go on to
• www.office.microsoft.com
• 1-Click on the Help and How-To Tab
• 2-Choose Training for the left side
• 3-Select Office 2003 or 2007 PowerPoint
• 4-Take the training courses available online

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References

• www.office.microsoft.com
• www.theteacherscorner.net
• http//web.cba.neu.edu/ewertheim/skills/oral.htm
• http//www.nwlink.com/donclark/leader/leadpres.ht
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• Professor Teachers CD, Microsoft 2003
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Microsoft Office CD-School
  Edition, 2005, Riverdeep Interactive Learning
• Technology Applications-Level 1, 2004, Upper
  Saddle River, New Jersey, Pearson Prentice Hall

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REFLECTION
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• Please never settle for less than you can be.
  
• -- Anthony Robbins