1. 1 Perfecting PowerPoint Presentations Gareth Johns IT Skills Development Advisor

2. 2 Today’s Aim To introduce tools, techniques and concepts for creating professional, accessible presentations.

3. User Support Services Session Objectives By the end of this session you should be able to: Describe some basic design ideas that should be considered when creating a PowerPoint presentation. Apply design themes to slides and customise colours, fonts and background colours appropriately to suit the material and audience. Use the layout feature of PowerPoint to align material neatly. Add multimedia content to your slides to create interesting and memorable slides. Use appropriate animation effects to enhance your presentation. 3

4. User Support Services PowerPoint Slide Design Tips Keep It Simple. Consider your material and audience. Short bullet points. Consistency in design. Don’t overuse bullet points. 4

5. 5 “While long bullet points are not very effective as a visual enhancer, displaying quotations…can be a very powerful technique.” Reynolds (2008)

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8. User Support Services Accessibility Issues Consider your font – Size 28+ – Sans serif – Contrast – Use correct punctuation & case. Background – Light room – light background – Dark room – Consider glare 8

9. User Support Services Animation Effects Animation controls the entrance… and exit of text. 9 Objects can be animated too. Animation can be subtle It can be used to emphasise Or focus the audience On the relevant point.

10. User Support Services Appropriate Animation Subtle = professional Don’t distract audience. Progressive disclosure & fade to emphasise Know your material/audience. Animation should have a purpose 10

11. User Support Services “Conditional Formatting is a method of formatting cells based on their value” (Answers.com) 11

12. User Support Services Session Objectives By the end of this session you should be able to: Describe some basic design ideas that should be considered when creating a PowerPoint presentation. Apply design themes to slides and customise colours, fonts and background colours appropriately to suit the material and audience. Use the layout feature of PowerPoint to align material neatly. Add multimedia content to your slides to create interesting and memorable slides. Use appropriate animation effects to enhance your presentation. 12

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14. User Support Services Additional Information Session hand outs and other resources are available at: https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Help/ Training/ What’s next? – New schedule published ~ early November 14

15. User Support Services Contact Us Training@CardiffMet.ac.uk https://tsr.uwic.ac.uk/Learning/Help/Training Visit an IT Advisor at the Technology Support Desk in your Learning Centre 15