2. ILS Session 10
In the course of your lessons in most subjects, you will, at times, be required to make presentations.
These will demonstrate not only how good you are at independent learning.....

3. ...but also should impress your teacher and your peers with the new and stimulating ideas and information that you have researched.
Otherwise it can all be very boring and people will switch off before they learn anything

4. Use Contrasting Colors
Basic Rules for Presentations
Use Contrasting Colors
Light colors on dark background.
Dark colors on light background.

5. Basic Rules for Presentations
Stick with a single background.
The background is the stage for your information.
Set the stage and leave it alone!

6. Basic Rules for Presentations
Don’t try to dazzle the audience with graphics or style…but with the information.
The medium is not the message.
The information is the message.

7. Basic Rules for Presentations
Balance.
Do not center bullet points.
It makes the text ragged.
And hard to read and follow with your eyes.

8. Basic Rules for Presentations
Balance.
Generally, left-justify bullets.
This keeps things neat..
and easy to follow.

9. Basic Rules for Presentations
Balance.
Centred graphics leave little room for text.

10. Basic Rules for Presentations
Balance.
Place graphics off-centre.
More room for text.
Better balance.
More pleasing to the eye.
Left placement leads the eye to the text.

11. Use Restraint With Fonts
Employ only a few..stick to familiar fonts
Stay away from gimmicky fonts unless for a theme.
Tahoma, Ariel, Verdana good
Keep type sizes consistent.
AVOID ALL CAPS – VERY HARD TO READ.

12. Choose Fonts Wisely Easy to read (44 pt)
Italics are more difficult to read.
Use bold when you want some words to stand out.
Font size
NOT Easy to read (18 pt)
NOT Easy to read (24 pt)
Easy to read (32 pt) main text
Easy to read (44 pt)

13. Avoid Text Overload
Having too much text on the screen can defeat the purpose of using PowerPoint. The slides begin to look like a jumble of text, making slides difficult to read and unrecognizable from each other. People will either try to read everything or copy everything down or they will lose interest. List only the key points. If you have more info to include use more slides or create handouts.

14. Basic Rules That You Must Have to Have a Good Presentation.
One of the most common mistakes in creating a presentation is to place too much information on the screen. This can cause the reader to become distracted from the speaker…just like you are now. Audiences are much more receptive to the spoken word.

15. Basic Presentation Mistakes.
Too much information.
Reader gets distracted
Audiences are much more receptive to the spoken word.

16. Some examples of Poor PowerPoints
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17. Don’t use similar colours for the text and background.
Don’t use too many different colours either!
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18. Using Text Or too much WordArt
Don’t use lots of different types of fonts.
AND be consistent with the size of text.
Don’t use too many features either Or
too
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much
WordArt
Don’t put too much writing in blocks. It can be really, really boring for people to read lots and lots of uninteresting text about nothing in particular and there isn’t really any point in writing about nothing and making someone read it and making them bored of reading it, is there? So don’t do it, at all, ever!

19. Animations Animations Animations Animations Animations Animations
Don’t
Have too many
Animations
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Animations
Animations
Animations

20. Spling and grandma Mayk shore yoor spling is crekt
Yoos. Full stops in the. rite places
put capital Letters oN names and titLes and the at the beg ning of sentences.
Spellcheck ur work to remove the squiggly red and green lynes.

21. Don’t use too many pictures…

22. … and make sure pictures are appropriate

23. Basic Rules of presenting
Keep it simple..
Make bulleted points easy to read.
Keep text easy to understand.
Use concise wording.
Bullets are focal points.
Presenter provides elaboration.

24. Basic Power Point Guidelines
Build information…don’t give them too much info at once.
Stick with the same transition.
Be creative but leave some color choices to professionals.
Six words per line (Maximum)
Six lines per page.(Maximum)

25. Choosing a Color Scheme
Stick with power point defaults.
What may look good on your computer may be unreadable in the classroom.
Remember to use strong, contrasting colors.

26. Clip Art & Graphics
A few excellent graphics are better than many poor ones.
Photographs are powerful.
Use sparingly
in each slide!
But use relevantly
and often

27. Martin Luther King Jr. Religious leader Civil rights activist
                                                                                                  
Martin Luther King Jr.
Religious leader
Civil rights activist
Author/poet
Labor activist
Minister
Antiwar activist

28. Martin Luther King Jr. Religious leader Civil rights activist
Author/poet
Labor activist
Minister
Antiwar activist

29. Less is more
Most presentations try to cram in too much information and the messages get lost
The most powerful presentations sometimes use very little text

30. Less is more
As you watch the following presentation write down any words that sum up your feelings about the way in which it is presented
Why do you think PowerPoint's can be powerful ways of presenting the material

31.
Zimbabwe is also very powerful