Creating Effective Power Point Presentations Presented by: Amanda Louie CSC 105 LF08 December 2, 2003

Creating Effective Presentations Professionalism Layout and Animation Knowing Your Audience Knowing Your Presentation Environment Effectiveness Engaging Your Audience Getting Your Point Across

Professionalism Part 1: Knowing Your Audience When developing a layout, it is important to know who you are presenting to. For the purpose of this presentation, we will develop the following audience to justify the layout of this particular slide show: Gender distribution is even Age ranges from At beginners/intermediate level in Power Point usage Audience chooses to watch “Creating Effective Power Point Presentations” for their own personal benefits Always cater to your audience while developing a presentation.

Professionalism Part 2: Knowing Your Environment There are several details about the room in which you are presenting that you should be aware of, such as lighting, shape, and size of the room. The room in which this presentation will be held has the following descriptions: Overview Of Room  semi-circle room  increasing levels of seating  adjustable lighting  40m distance from screen to projector  Farthest seating distance from screen 35m.  Every detail about the presentation room should be considered.

Using Audience and Room Knowledge to Your Advantage Use every bit of gathered information while formatting your presentation: select appropriate colours use backgrounds that will appeal to your viewers, and that correlate with the room use animation effects to keep your slide looking professional, and to emphasize each slide The appearance of your slide show should be treated equally important to the information you’re trying to get across.

Effectiveness Engaging your audience comes partly from the appearance/layout of the slide, and partly from keeping their attention and interest. To keep from making a bland slide show, use pictures, graphs, or other mediums. Use arrows and circles to emphasize certain points, and to keep the audience focused on what is important. Simplifying matters to make them more understandable is vital to your audience’s enjoyment and interest in the slide. Break things down for the viewers in simple language to achieve this. The following three slides will demonstrate these points.

Effectiveness Part 1: Use of Pictures, Emphasizing Points Always dress appropriately while presenting. Note the bad lighting conditions and the effects on the presentations readability.

Effectiveness, Part 2: Making Complicated Things Easy Math.random() is a Java code that will randomly return a double value between 0 and 1. Example: double n= Math.random() n may be returned as , , , etc. We can use Math.random() to generate random numbers in a java program. Example: A program needs to obtain a random whole number, n, between 1 and 100. Since Math.random() only generates numbers from 0 to 1, we must first multiply Math.random() by 100. double n = Math.random() * 100 Because we don’t want any decimal numbers, we must cast the double to an (int), thereby cutting off all decimals.

Part 2 Continued: Making Complicated Things Easy We now have the following Java code to generate a random number from 1 to 100. Double n = Math.random() * 100 System.out.println= (“Random number is” + (int)n ) First multiply by 100 to generate all numbers between 1 and 100. Cast “n” to an int in order to get whole numbers only. The user of the program will read the following: Random number is 7, or Random number is 40, etc.

Summary Power point presentations should always be done professionally and effectively. This is achieved by: doing necessary research about your audience and presentation room prior to developing the layout of your slide keeping the audience engaged and interested through the use of pictures, graphs and examples emphasizing the points you are trying to make using arrows and circles making your explanations concise and understandable Congratulations! This completes the “Creating Effective Power Point Presentations” course.

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