Making Your Points With Power Created by: Daniel Mestas For Jane Brown, Instructor

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 2 Introduction – Part 1  Objectives  Demo PowerPoint design tips  Emphasize how not to PowerPoint  Offer general presentation tips  Daniel Mestas  From Fairplay, CO  Sophomore at UNC  Studying Business and Computer Information Systems

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 3 Introduction – Part 2  Objectives Demo PowerPoint design tips Emphasize how not to PowerPoint Offer general presentation tips  Daniel Mestas From Fairplay, CO Sophomore at UNC Studying Business and Computer Information Systems

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 4 Know Your Audience  Present information relevant to this audience  Stay focused on the main topic Be brief Avoid “Bird Walks”

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 5 Choosing Colors – Part 1  Use colors with “pop”, meaning the words stand out against your background color  Dark backgrounds require light colors like white or gold

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 6 Choosing Colors – Part 2  Red text on a blue background produces a purple haze

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 7 Choosing Colors – Part 3  Green text on a red background looks fuzzy

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 8 Choosing Colors – Part 4  Light backgrounds need dark colors like red or blue  This color changing is so much fun!  Dark backgrounds need light colors like white or gold

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 9 Choosing Font Style – Part 1  Arial, Verdana, or Tahoma This is Arial 28 pt and you can easily read it. This is Tahoma 28 pt. This is Verdana 28 pt and it is very easy to read when projected.

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 10 Choosing Font Style – Part 2  Times New Roman or Courier Times New Roman 28 pt is difficult to read. Courier 28 pt is very thin, even disconnected, when presented with a low quality projector.

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 11 Choosing Font Style – Part 3  “Welcome to Jane’s World” is in Comic Sans 32 pt is a good font for a PLAYFUL presentation  “HAPPY HALLOWEEN!” is in Chiller 32 pt and is difficult to read. It is a FUN font but use it sparingly and for emphasis.  Word Art is good…

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 12 Choosing Font Size  Make sure lettering is big enough that people in the back of a room can read it.

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 13 Chunking Text  Reading many lines of text tires the audience out and distracts their attention from you and the excellent points you are making. “Chunk” information. I think four lines of text is enough in a chunk. If you are listing bullets of information as you are suppose to be doing in a PowerPoint presentation you shouldn’t have this problem.

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 14 Using Bullets – Part 1  Type phrases not sentences  Maintain parallel structure  Use the 666 Rule 6 words per bullet 6 bullets per slide 6 word slides in a row

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 15 Using Bullets – Part 2 PowerPoint provides a variety of bullets Some are basic  Others may surprise you Select bullets that enhance your presentation

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 16 Use Spell Check – Part 1  Mayk use of spell checkker!

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 17 Use Spell Check – Part 2  Ode To My Spell Checker I have a spelling checker it came with my PC It plainly marks for my revue, Mistake I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your please too no. It's letter perfect in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew.

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 18 Adding Graphics GIF VS. JPEG

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 19 Graphics Size – Part 1 Klamath Falls, Oregon

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 20 Graphic Size – Part 2

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 21 Optimizing JPEGS Size 25.9 KB Size 15.7 KB

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 22 Finding Graphics  On the Web  Microsoft - dgl.microsoft.com/dgl.microsoft.com/  Google –  Create it yourself Create in Photoshop Digital camera – Sony Mavica Scanner Grab from Video

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 23 Don’t clutter These our are sales from the past year Meeting in the Conference Room Friday at 4 Color# available Red57

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 24 Adding Sound  Get the reader’s attention with sound Make sure sound is appropriate Use mouse over sounds for showing a highlight Use mouse over sounds for showing a highlight Use sound sparingly

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 25 Using Animation  Flying  Dissolve  Blinds

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 26 Using Charts – Part 1

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 27 Using Charts - Part 2 Regional Sales (in millions)

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 28 Resource Links  Be sure links work  UNCWOW –  Presenters University –

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 29 Summary Today, we have:  Viewed PowerPoint design tips  Explored how not to PowerPoint  Modeled general presentation tips

6/5/2016University of Northern Colorado 30 Do remember to… TThank the audience for their attention  How did we do?  Write Jane Brown at:

Making Your Points With Power Created by Daniel Mestas For Jane Brown, Instructor