Pretty, Powerful PowerPoint Presentations By Deborah A. Chávez Wilton Staff Development Day Wednesday, September 28, 2012
Power Point is Easy Hardest Part - What to Say Organizing Ideas Slides & Bullet Points Fun Part - Dress It Up Color Schemes, Backgrounds & Fonts Graphics Google Images, Photos, Scanned Images Charts, Graphs, SmartArt Transitions & Animations Audio & Video
What to Say Organized Outline Nuggets of Wisdom Brief, Succinct Focused, Concise Avoid unnecessary details
How to Say It Bullets Max. 8 bullets per slide Max. 5 words per bullet Avoid Complete Sentences. Germ of the idea Concentrated, freeze-dried Talk to the bullets Speaker notes
Fun Part – Dress it Up Visual Impact Graphic Elements Sound Video Transitions Animations
Visual Impact Backgrounds Design Themes Templates Scanned Image, Watermark, Trademark Color Schemes Fonts Bullets
Graphic Elements Google Images Photos Scanned Images Logos, branding Charts, graphs SmartArt
Sound CD tracks Music downloads .mp3,.mp4,.wav,.wma Recorded Narration Sound effects
Video Clips.mp4,.avi,.mov,.wmv, YouTube videos Requires Adobe Flash Check PowerPoint help for links Different versions require different plug-ins
Transitions & Animations Slide Transitions Object Animations – order & timing Text Line, Word, letter Level, groupings Fade (don’t dim) Graphics Sound Video
Humor Content What you say Packaging How you say it What it looks like How long they’ll listen
Powerful Communication PowerPoint is the tool Facilitates Impressive Presentations Easy & Fun Creative Start Simple Add lots of bells & whistles Use humor to keep attention