How to do

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How to do
BAD
PowerPoint!
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Use different colors on every slide
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Use lotsoffancy fonts
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Dont prepare any handouts.

• Everyone will be paying attention
• to your every word,
• and will remember everything
• next week,
• so who needs paper?

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Dont worry about checking speling or gramar.
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Save your main point until the very end,
then say it only once!
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Dont rehearse, and dont check out the
equipment or facilitybefore your
presentationstarting time.
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Use monochromatic, low contrast colors for text
and background
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Use irrelevant graphics
and audio clips
to distract your audience.
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Memorize your talk word for word.

• Then, if you lose your place, you can start all
  over again!

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Cram lots of small size text on every slide.
See, isnt this legible from 20 feet away?
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Start talking before the animation stops
People tend to stop listening while they are
watching, but who cares?
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Dont use any logical progression in presenting
your thoughts

• this will keep your audience guessing!

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Use many special effects
and lots of animation
everyone will be very impressed!
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Dont worry about matching the design of your
slides to the situation and topic.
Go ahead and use a circus theme for an executive
budget meeting!
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Zoom through the slides, and dont add any more
information.
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Dont give any thoughtto pacing.

• Put several unrelated ideas on a single slide
• or string a single thought

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through several slides.
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• Remember Burma Shave?

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Dont summarize,
review the major points,
or bring your presentation full circle to a
conclusion.
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And be sure to end with this view!
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Created (with tongue firmly in cheek) by

• Sharon Barnes
• South Central Kansas Library System
• sbarnes_at_sckls.info