1. Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations

2. Today’s Goals Using PowerPoint as a presentation aid Using good design principles Selecting bells and whistles Creating the right finished product

3. Criticisms of PowerPoint Bullet points reduce complex ideas to oversimplified, dumbed-down bits. Microsoft’s templates and add-ins make presentations generic, annoying, and too sales-pitchy. PowerPoint = teleprompter? Add your own: ________________

5. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience. -Edward Tufte

6. Planning and Organizing the Presentation Prioritizing and Outlining Group delegating & rehearsal Information Overload Minutes per slide Spontaneity

7. Allowing Powerpoint to Enhance the Presentation Reading slides Intended interruptions Evocative images, words

9. What is the best way to help my audience visualize what I’m trying to communicate? Text: bullet points or paragraphs? Graphs/Charts Photos Sounds Link to external video or web site

10. Good Design Matching format to content Emphasis Readability Consistency

11. Templates | Master Slides | Fonts

12. Sans-serif: –40 point Tw Cen MT –20 point Tw Cen MT Serif: –40 point Times New Roman –20 point Times New Roman

13. Light blue text on blue background

14. Black text on blue background

15. Black Serif Font on White Background "On the Decline of Oracles“ by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, and her work reflects both her New England heritage and the landscape of England where she later lived with her husband, poet Ted Hughes. What Hughes called her "crackling verbal energy" is apparent in her poems' biting precision of word and image. Gestures in her life of defiance and ecstasy, love or despair, are reimagined in brilliant archetypal patterns. In the year before her suicide, she was writing the poems that secured her fame -- poems about her children and her failed marriage, about death and her imagination.

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17. Nathan Lane: Fame and Misfortune Amid the praise and scrutiny that come with increased fame, Lane has been faced with personal and professional struggles. Demand for Lane's talents has resulted in scheduling conflicts that, unlike Forum, were not happily resolved. When Fine Line Pictures optioned Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lane agreed to recreate the role of Buzz. However, delays developed and Lane--without a contract for the film--took a television assignment that would not allow him to keep his verbal promise. Terrence McNally felt betrayed by this decision and has not spoken to the actor since. "It's not because I didn't do the movie of Love! Valour! Compassion! It's because of other things. It's like, `Pass the salt, and by the way, you ruined my life.' He's angry; I think he's resentful about my success," Lane told Esquire. Meanwhile, critics and fans are bemoaning the hopefully temporary rift between the actor and playwright. Amid the praise and scrutiny that come with increased fame, Lane has been faced with personal and professional struggles. Demand for Lane's talents has resulted in scheduling conflicts that, unlike Forum, were not happily resolved. When Fine Line Pictures optioned Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lane agreed to recreate the role of Buzz. However, delays developed and Lane--without a contract for the film--took a television assignment that would not allow him to keep his verbal promise. Terrence McNally felt betrayed by this decision and has not spoken to the actor since. "It's not because I didn't do the movie of Love! Valour! Compassion! It's because of other things. It's like, `Pass the salt, and by the way, you ruined my life.' He's angry; I think he's resentful about my success," Lane told Esquire. Meanwhile, critics and fans are bemoaning the hopefully temporary rift between the actor and playwright. “Nathan Lane.” Newsmakers 1996, Issue 4. Gale Research, 1996. Biography Resource Center. Gale, 2008.Nathan Lane

19. Notes | Handouts | Rehearsal

21. Play it Safe! Saving! Compressing! Backup plans!