1. Effective Presentations
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3. Slide shows give the audience something to look at during a presentation.

4. Before you even open your presentation software…

5. Know Your Audience Age What do they already know about the topic
Reasons they are attending
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6. Content
Decide what topics you will include

7. Visual Aids Must relate to the slide topic
Help listeners understand the message
Makes your presentation more interesting
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8. ONE Idea Per Slide
Main ideas only. Limit the amount of text!
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9. Text Size This is Arial 44 Make it Big : This is Arial 36
Too Small

10. How to Estimate
2 m

11. Make Text Clear & large enough people can see it easily

12. Fonts
clear
busy
Sans Serif Z
Serif Z

13. Fonts San serif fonts are clearer
Serif fonts are difficult to read on screen
San serif fonts are clearer
Italics are difficult to read on screen
Normal or bold fonts are clearer

14. Contrasting colors Use dark colors on light backgrounds
Use light colors on
dark backgrounds

15. Do NOT Use: Too many colors Too Many Fonts and Styles Too many words
Main ideas or key points only

16. Capitalization
ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ARE DIFFICULT TO READ-THEY ALSO REPRESENT SHOUTING
Upper and lower case letters are easier to read

17. Too Much Text
Instructional Technology: A complex integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems in situations in which learning is purposive and controlled. (HMRS 5th ed.)

18. Be Concise
Instructional Technology:
A process involving people, tools, and Procedures for solutions to problems in learning
(HMRS 5th ed.)
This says the same thing as the paragraph on the other slide but in a more concise way.

19. Graphics
Too many Graphics and Animations may distract your audience.

20. Balance Balance your slide. Don’t put everything on one side
Leave some white space.

21. Focal Points
Focal points direct the viewers attention

22. Be Consistent Differences draw attention
Differences may imply importance
Use surprises to attract not distract
This implies importance

23. Be Consistent Differences draw attention
Differences may imply importance
Use surprises to attract not distract
Too many differences
may confuse.

24. Be Consistent Differences draw attention
Differences may imply importance
Use surprises to attract not distract
This surprise attracts

25. Be Consistent Differences draw attention
Differences may imply importance
Use surprises to attract not distract
Too many distract!

26. The following slides are examples of what NOT to do

27. Sports
Dark on dark. Can’t read the text
Swimming
Lacrosse
Soccer

28. 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY Too many words Snoresville. 1. LOCATION
Absolute- describes an object's location, relative to Earth. For instance, latitude and longitude coordinates are an example of Absolute Location. Relative location is more general and can be used relative to the surroundings of the object.
Relative-where it is in relation to another place. Ex: Riverton is southwest of Salt Lake. Utah is northeast of California and west of Colorado.
2. PLACE
A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. Physical-natural features of earth, such as landforms, bodies of water, temp. Cultural-everything that is involved in the people’s way of life; gov’t, language, religion, customs, beliefs.
3. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
How humans use and change their environment and the consequences of these changes.
4. MOVEMENT
Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America?
5. REGIONS
How places are alike and different. Ex: political regions, physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, language.

29. Animals Don’t Animate everything on the slide
There are many kinds of animals in this world
Some are wild. Some are kept as pets.
Some, sadly, are slaughtered

30. Too Many Pictures

31. GWAM
GWAM stand for Gross Words a Minute
Too much empty space.