Don’t Let Your Presentation become… PowerPoint less

What is the purpose of your Presentation? To communicate information. To present information to your audience. To convey knowledge.

Choose an Easy to Read Font Calibri Helvetica Arial

Just because you’re given all of these choices, doesn’t mean that you have to use them.

Make Sure the Font is the Proper Size Helvetica (32) Helvetica (40) Helvetica (44) Helvetica (48) Rule of Thumb: Don’t go any smaller than 32

Words, Words, Words, Words Talking points Don’t overload slides with information Let your slide support what you are saying

Don’t use a picture as a background! Don’t type words onto pictures! Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the USA's Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame!

Don’t Overdo Animation Animation schemes can get silly and annoy your audience. Animation Schemes should be used with a purpose.

Animation Use it when you want to discuss something before the information appears. Just make it simply “Fly in” from a side, quickly!

Don’t Use Sounds! Sounds can also distract your audience. They may be fun to listen to when you’re making the presentation, but not when you’re sitting in the audience. The focus should be on what you’re saying. Don’t Use Sounds!

Color Contrasts Some Colors Look Good Together Some Colors Do Not Look Good Together

Colors can even interact and play tricks on the mind. Doesn’t it look like this is moving?

Choose an Automatic Design Automatic design takes a lot of the guess work out for you

Use Clipart, Photographs and other Graphics When Appropriate Graphics are Meant to add to the presentation, NOT confuse it.

Summary—Avoid PowerPointlessness Choose an easy-to-read font. Make sure that the words are the proper size. Don’t overload the slide with a lot of words. Don’t type words directly over photos. Don’t overdo the animation. Don’t use sounds. Make sure that color contrasts are appealing. Use clipart, photographs and other graphic objects when appropriate.

Let’s Critique Some Slides! Let’s discuss what’s wrong with these sample slides. What advice would you offer to the student on how to fix the slide and make it more effective?

The Causes of World War II The immediate causes of World War II are generally understood to be the invasion of Poland by Germany and of China by the Empire of Japan. In each of these situations, the military aggression were the result of a decision made by authoritarian ruling elites in Germany and Japan. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war and/or armed resistance.

Different Sports at High School Baseball Basketball Football Wrestling

Barack Obama’s Early Life His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank. After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants. He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African—American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.

About Mexican Food Types of food Burritos Tacos Enchiladas Mexican food is usually spicy but it tastes good. It usually is made with meat and vegetables and sometimes corn. When you eat Mexican food you feel joy. I always like to eat it with my family on birthdays. I like tacos the best but sometimes I’ll eat a burrito like the kind they have at Chipotle.

A great life cut to short Ann Frank A great life cut to short

Ancient Roman Government Monarchy—led by a king Republic—led by people Empire—The government got bigger

Frogs Feet and legs The structure of the feet and legs varies greatly among frog species, depending in part on whether they live primarily on the ground, in water, in trees, or in burrows. Frogs must be able to move quickly through their environment to catch prey and escape predators, and numerous adaptations help them do so. Many frogs, especially those that live in water, have webbed toes. The degree to which the toes are webbed is directly proportional to the amount of time the species lives in the water. For example, the completely aquatic African dwarf frog (Hymenochirus sp.) has fully webbed toes, whereas the toes of White's tree frog (Litoria caerulea), an arboreal species, are only a half or a quarter webbed.