© Joe Miner Presentation Title Presentation Subtitle Joe Miner Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Missouri University of Science and Technology 4 April 2014rev © 2014 Joe Miner

© Joe Miner Presentation Overview Outline Introduction Style Presentation Overview4 April 20142

© Joe Miner Presentation Overview Introduction Introduction Style Presentation Overview4 April 20143

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview4 Presentations Overview Presentation is a tool to present ideas, concept, etc. There are two ideas: –presentations are great saves times and visually helpful –presentations are bad i.e. Death by PowerPoint; refers to boredom and fatigue Should be balance between the two extremes –use blank statements for interaction –ask questions in the slides

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview5 Presentations Overview It takes time to get experienced Timing is important –per slide time spent on average: 1.5 to 2.5 min. –e.g. if you are allotted 30 min. you should have 15 to 20 content slides this excludes title and transition slides Always practice ahead of time

© Joe Miner Presentation Overview Style Introduction Style Presentation Overview4 April 20146

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview7 Presentation Style Text Wrapping Each line is a reminder for the presenter They should not wrap around! Do not use full sentences If you just copy/paste from a source, and the lines gets like this, audience will not pay attention to what you say, but rather try to read. However, if you need to quote, it is ok “In blah blah that person stated that this will be an example of wrapup.” [reference]

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview8 Presentation Style Autofit Text Using autofit is evil Turn off that option If it is on, your slides will have the dancing slides –where one slide to another, things move around –very unprofessional looking slides

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview9 Presentation Style Period Do not use periods at the end of the lines For example: usage of period. This looks especially bad for inconsistent usage: –some lines have it. –some don’t –so, can you see the point? If you use a quote or sentence, that’s fine –remember: presentation is not full sentences –but rather reminders for the presenter

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview10 Presentation Style Font Size First level font size is 24 –second level font size is 20 third level font size is 18 Common mistake is 24: –if you reduce 20 or to 18 –remember the audience at the back with this 16 font size »do you think they can see this 12 font size? Don’t go beyond third level –try to restructure the thought on that slide consider multiple bullet points or another slide

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview11 Presentation Style Typeface Use sans-serif typeface These slides use Tahoma typeface Sans-serif help reading the content –you rather convey the content, than being fancy i.e. readability and eligibility on computer screen –serif fonts might not be ideal for computer screens: e.g. Times New Roman If you need to emphasize –you can italicize and add a color

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview12 Presentation Style Font Colors Regular text: black (RGB code 0,0,0) Emphasize: blue italic (RGB code 0,0,255) True logic: green (RGB code 0,128,0) False logic: red (RGB code 192,0,0) A mid-level value: yellow (RGB code 255,192,0) Not to highlight: gray (RGB code 128,128,128) Others as necessary –pay attention to contrast for black and white printing –on white background this color is bad

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview13 Presentation Style Figures 1 When using figures add few bullet points –highlighting the important features [Ref: MS-Office]

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview14 Presentation Style Figures 2 If it is not your figure, you must show reference [Ref: MS-Office]

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview15 Presentation Style Tables When using tables, don’t just copy/paste –unless table is big and time consuming Instead insert table Highlight with colors for important figures Item 1Item 2 N/A April2014

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview16 Presentation Style References You must use references at the end Use some shortened style for each reference [JM2014] Journal/magazine articles –[MM2014] Joe Miner and John Miner, “Article Title,” Journal Name, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 – 12, April Conference/workshop proceedings –[MMM+2014] Jane Miner, Joe Miner, Janet Miner, and John Miner, “Article Title,” Conference Name, Rolla, MO, pp. 1 – 12, April Books/monographs –[M2014] Jane Miner, Book Title, Miner Publishing, 2014.

© Joe Miner 4 April 2014Presentation Overview17 Presentation Style Final Thoughts You are free to tweak according to your own style –while keeping the general guidelines in this presentation Be consistent across slides Ask questions if you don’t know –or search the Web Practice, practice, practice…

© Joe Miner References and Further Reading [MS-Office] MS-Office 2010 Chrysanthemum Figure Presentation Overview4 April

© Joe Miner End of Foils Presentation Overview4 April