Tips for effective power point

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Effective PowerPoint

10 top tips for designing and presenting great

slide shows

1 Keep the points simple

• If it is a book or report look for the contents page Identify

any chapters that you think maybe of particular relevance and focus on them Again start from the introduction or the

conclusions You can find your way through a chapter or

section by using the subheadings.

• Use the contents page

• Start with introductions and conclusions

• Use subheadings

2 Keep the background simple

• Keeps a clear, clean design

2 Keep the background simple

Keeps a clear, clean design

Avoids distractions

2 Keep the background simple

• Keeps a clear, clean design

• Avoids distractions

• Allows good contrast

2 Keep the background simple

• Keeps a clear, clean design

• Avoids distractions

• Allows good contrast

• Prevents confusion

2 Keep the background simple

• Keeps a clear, clean design

3 Keep the text clear

3 Keep the text clear

3 Keep the text clear

3 Keep the text clear

3 Keep the text clear

• Photographs are fantastic

• Cartoons are fun

• Diagrams are

useful

• No picture? Why a slide?

“My PowerPoint presentation went so well,

I had it made into a tattoo!”

4 Always have a good picture

Just SPEAK

it!

5 Use a full sentence as your

title

• Show where

you are going!

6 Animate quickly and simply

• Avoid transitions

6 The next slide?

6 Animate quickly and simply

• Avoid transitions

• For text use:

– Appear

– Wipe, from left (very fast)

– Fade (very fast)

• For graphics use:

Dissolve in

6 Animate quickly and simply

– Or you try to read

or recognise it before it has fully developed!

7 Never just read the slide

This is the thing that annoys more people about PowerPoint presentations than

anything else

It is boring!

Keep something back!

8 Take control of the show

• Use B or W keys

• Change to pen (Ctrl P) – E to erase

• Hide the pointer (Ctrl H)

• Move to specific slides

Great for learning languages…

…or adding a bit of realism!

9 Be very careful with sound

10 Give out great handouts

• People will listen!

• Don’t use Handout

option

Thank you for your

attention