1. Slides Advice by Richard J Botting CSE School CSUSB With advice from Aaron Pritchett

2. Do not do the slides first (0) Research the topic, (1) Plan the presentation, (2) Write it, (3) Illustrate it with slides, (4) Edit without mercy.

3. Plan your presentation Divide and conquer! Each section should have a clear break from the next one.

4. Next -- slides

5. Movement Don’t! Unless it is something special Or it means something. Or (rarely) to wake people up.

6. Show or Tell? Show facts on slides. Tell stories and feelings.

7. Three Good Layouts Heading and Picture Heading and simple graphic Heading and some bullets Two examples...

8. Heading + Picture Jane Curnutt at Mauna Kea

9. Simple Bar Graph

10. Empty Space is OK

11. No Paragraphs Hand out hard copy of long texts. Hand out after the presentation. Otherwise ask people to read bits of it.

12. Mix Layouts Not too many Head + Bullets slides With thanks to the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Machine_gun_M2_1.jpg

13. No Keyword Bullets Bullet points should be sentences.

14. Scale Font sizes should be more than 16 point Make important points bigger. A Big hall means use a bigger bolder font Acknowledgements can be small.

15. Fonts A San Serif font works best on slides. Unless, of course, you don ’ t care whether anybody can read the message or not.

16. Color Use for moods and style not facts. Foreground must standout from background

17. Enough about formatting slides What slides must you have?

18. Slides you must have? You must say who you are and what you are talking about. FIRST You must give your sources. References You should ask for questions. You must thank the audience.

19. References Guy Kawazaki http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQLdRk0Ziw Don McMillan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGq3tH4qSw Desrochers & Cheal of CSUN

20. Any Questions? ?

21. In Summary Keep slides simple, Less is more. THINK

22. Thank you.