key Thoughts
- people come to hear you, not to watch a PowerPoint presentation. your PowerPoint should support you and your presentation, not be the presentation
- talk to your participants and not the PowerPoint presentation
- always tell your participants if there will be handout copies of the PowerPoint slides
- never stand in front of your PowerPoint presentation
PowerPoint Presentations
- no more than 36 words on one slide. ever.
- some of the best PowerPoint presentations have no words, only pictures
- no more than 30 numbers on one slide. ever.
- font size should be between 18 and 30
- animation should be kept to a minimum - use only once (or not at all) in a presentation
- graphics/ pictures should be high quality and not taken from the internet – they will be blurry
- pictures, videos and audio help participants remember your message
- in general a new presentation, if you are taking it seriously, will take 1 hour to design each slide. leave enough time to design the slides rather than staying up all night
- keep the background to your slides white whenever possible – its much quicker and cheaper when printing. it’s also easier on the student's eyes
- when printing the slides as handouts, print three, four or six slides to one A4 page. never print one slide to a page, it looks as if you are inexperienced. print on both sides of the page when you can - again it makes printing quicker and cheaper
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