1. Avoiding Common Mistakes With PowerPoint Kushner,M
報告人:林彥輝
授課教授:任威廉 老師

2. Outline Ferreting out mistakes while preparing your slide now
Avoiding blunders while giving presentation
Knowing whether PowerPoint is too overpowering

3. Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation
Creating the wrong message:
be flexible to the different audience
To executives: summary
To engineers: technology details

4. Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation
Undermining your message:
Be sure visuals support your message

5. Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation
Prettifying without purpose:
think if it is necessary?: Too much colorful theme, too much fancy font.
keep in mind that anything goes on the slide must enhance your message.

6. Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation
Passing poor design:
Too much information
Misspelled words
Creepy colors
Using too many special effects
Too much animated transition distraction
Creepy colors
appropriate colors

7. Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation
Forgetting to practice
Notice:
Check videos and photos
The order of slides
The font
LCD projector

8. Avoiding mistakes when presenting
Ignoring your audience
Connect with them
Talk to audience not to talk to computers
PowerPoint is never substitute for eye contact with audience
Reading the slides
Put a lot of words and just read the slides

9. Avoiding mistakes when presenting
Not talking about what’s on the slide
If need to go off on a tangent, blank the screen
Having bad timing
Automatic switch manual switch

10. Avoiding mistakes when presenting
Using someone else’s slides
A slide is missing or the slides are in a different order than you used to
Make sure have time to get familiar with it.

11. Overpowering with PowerPoint: How much is Too much?
In 1980s, PowerPoint has spread through the world
See PowerPoint as a barrier between presenter and audience
“Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”
PowerPoint can’t distinguish whether the message is important.

12. Overpowering with PowerPoint: How much is Too much?
How to solve the problem?
Prepare for PowerPoint, just as going to show it
When the slides are too many Not to report, but printed to audience
Figure out some slides to report and conversation.