1. Creating More 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: ________________

4. As you prepare, ask: Is PowerPoint the most appropriate medium for this talk?  Structure  One-way communication  Physical arrangement of room  Alternatives

6. More questions… How much time do I have for the presentation?  Information Overload  Prioritizing and Outlining  Slides/minute  Spontaneous learning

7. More questions… How much information needs to be displayed on the screen? How much can I just talk about?  Reading slides  Intended interruptions  Evocative images, words

8. More questions… What is the best way to help my audience visualize what I’m trying to communicate?  Graphs/Charts  Photos  Text in bullet points or paragraphs  Sound

9. Design Matching format to content Consistency Emphasis Readability

10. Fonts 40 point Sans-serif (Tw Cen MT) 20 point Sans-serif 40 point Serif (Times New Roman) 20 point Serif Light blue text on blue background Black text on blue background

11. 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.

12. November 2004 State Cross-Industry estimates STOCC_CODEOCC_TITLETOT_EMPH_MEANA_MEAN MA00-0000All Occupations312909021.7845290 MA11-0000Management occupations20769046.5896880 MA11-1011Chief executives2117067.78140980 MA11-1021General and operations managers5043048.61101100 MA11-2011Advertising and promotions managers163044.2692050 MA11-2021Marketing managers773054.41113170 MA11-2022Sales managers1107051.90107950 MA11-2031Public relations managers192045.0493690 MA11-3011Administrative services managers862034.9772750 MA11-3021Computer and information systems managers1117051.30106690 MA11-3031Financial managers2025047.4098590 MA11-3041Compensation and benefits managers202046.5096730 MA11-3042Training and development managers118045.6594950 MA11-3049Human resources managers, all other175046.1696010 MA11-3051Industrial production managers400042.7088820 MA11-3061Purchasing managers252040.7884830

13. Abraham Lincoln’s Biography "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families-- second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all." "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families-- second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

14. "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

15. The Presidency of Lincoln Until… The South Secedes!

17. How to Polish the Presentation Master Slides Notes Rehearsal Handouts Saving