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day I was told to write about PowerPoint and what makes them effective.
Microsoft Office said To minimize the number of slides you have to keep your reader’s attention, and to choose a style and font to keep them interested. Avoid narrow fonts, or fancy edges. You should also choose a font size that is easy to read but not too large. Keep your text simple, use bullets or short sentences, be aware that some projectors crop the sides so your sentence may be cropped off if it’s too long. Make sure to include pictures that help people to understand and to get your message out, it also makes it more interesting. The last tip from Microsoft is to CHECK THE SPELLING AND GRAMMAR. This is very important because if you are presenting to your co-workers and you have spelling and grammar errors it doesn’t look to good on your part.
This website says a lot of different things for example before you present checkout the room you are presenting in and make sure all the slides work as the are supposed to. When presenting look at your audience. When using graphs colour coat it so it is easier to read, and add picture to make the graph more effective.
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/workshops/biomed/ppt/dodont.html
This site says:
Do:
- Be brief
- Use appropriate fonts
- run slid show before presenting
- use appropriate colours so they don’t blend
Don’t:
- Put everything you present on the slides
- use different colors and fonts on every slide unless necessary
- use bright backgrounds
- put things that are distracting on the slide
http://amrilradzman.hubpages.com/hub/-This-you-should-avoid-on-your-Powerpoint-Presentation
This says to avoid making a slide with only text, because that is very boring, and then people don’t pay attention. Always choose a font colour that compliments the background colour. Make sure that your font is readable. don’t make the slide to complicated or you wont seem like you know what you are doing. Know your stuff, if you don’t you will get nervous and your presentation wont look as good as it can.
Looking for a way to improve your Powerpoint? here are some tips, decide on the goal of the presentation, use visual instead of text its more appealing, use proper charts and graphs, and practice to get it perfect and that will enhance your presentation even more.
http://www.slideshare.net/mikejeffs/how-to-create-great-slides-for-presentations
This site recommended a number of things:
- Fewer, larger words, short sentences, and pictures
- Have interesting fonts but still readable
- Choose a colour scheme
- Use cool word play
- Make use of icons to creat cool images
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/powerpoint-design-recommended-tips/
Speaking about presenting says to plan, use a plain background, do lots of research, have one idea per slide, support the headline with graphic evidence, and put lots of detail.
As you can tell lots of them have some of the same, but are yet very different. I hope this will help you to create your own effective yet interesting Powerpoint.
alecbuckman 