1. Preparing Power Point presentation
Muna Shalima Jahan

2. The best PowerPoint slides serve as visual aids for memorable presentations.
The worst slides are used as Teleprompters or wordy summaries of content.

3. Common abuses in PowerPoint use
Including excessive detail
Too much text on a slide
Slides are visually poor and/or boring
Excessive use of graphics
Irritating noises and slide transitions
Inappropriate use of multimedia options
Tendency to go too fast
No back up in event of technological failure

4. Common abuses in PowerPoint use can be avoided by-
training and reflecting upon one’s approach to teaching and learning.

5. Objectives of this session
Able to prepare effective PPT as instruction delivery aid maintaining norms

6. Design a template that is free from distracting items – footers, logo
Eliminate non-data ink (bullet points, gridlines, etc.) and headings introducing topic
Too much text distracts your audience and can be difficult to read.

7. Design template that promotes readability
Well lit room Darkened room
Don’t use red font on blue background or vice versa
Dark text
Light text

8. Use fonts with good visibility
Limit fonts to two, at most, to have a consistent look and feel.
Serif fonts
produce blurred look x
Sans serif fonts produce a clearer, easy to read look

9. Text should be large enough to be read from back
Use appropriate font size – 24 and larger
DO NOT USE CAPITALS except for occasional emphasis
Capitals are harder to read than lower-case letters

10. Clearly assert the slide’s main idea in a complete sentence
Appears at the top of the slide
Contains one distinct point
Flows logically from previous slide
Slide headings should contain a message not a topic

11. Packing too much information into a slide will completely undermine its purpose. 

12. Most effective slides are often those with least text.
Use bullet points sparingly (if at all)

13. ONE slide
ONE theme

14. Use Grammatical Parallelism
Not Parallel:
Lyse cells in buffer
5 minute centrifuging
Supernatant is removed
Parallel:
Centrifuge for 5 minutes
Remove supernatant

15. Better to reinforce the argument with visual evidence.
No more than 2 graphics (photographs, screen-shots) per slide is a good general rule.
Sidr devastation: village after village, barely any accommodation was left standing.

16. Easily interpreted visuals allow audience to confirm rather than discover

17. Incorporating text  into photo presents a more unified & visually pleasing message

18. “A picture is worth a thousand words”

19. Highlight the most important information in tables and graphs.
Misleading
Correct

20. The “classic” types of misleading graphs include cases where:
Vertical scale - too big or too small, or skips numbers, or doesn’t start at zero
Not properly labeled
Data - left out

21. Better
Good

22. Postnatal mortality among mothers by age group: BDHS 1993-2014

23. Be consistent and minimalist with effects, transitions and animation.
Better to Use-
“Appear effect”
Not
“FANCY EFFECTS”
Do not use ‘exit effect’ animation

24. Personalized templates may be created by using the Slide Master feature.
Click View on Toolbar
On the View menu, click Slide Master
Slide Master View appears
Working in the slide, edit the Master Slide by going to Format on the Toolbar and working on Font and Background

26. Insert graphics if desired
Return to Normal View by clicking on Close Master View on the dialog box
With Master Slide on the screen, background can be designed with color, copyright information, logos, or other graphics

27. PowerPoint is much more powerful and flexible than that and alternative activities can be facilitated by its use,
limited only by the creativity of the user.