6 TIPS FOR AN EFFECTIVE

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

Conyers BullMultimedia Services Manager

QUICK OVERVIEW

Session Focus = Face-to-Face Presentations1.Location2.Audience3.Text4.Graphics5.Themes6.Animations

TIP #1 - LOCATION

How big is the room?Size of roomSize of audience

What version of PowerPoint is available? Which resolution should you use? Is slide content viewable?

TIP #2 - AUDIENCE

To whom are you speaking?Adults vs. TeenagersBOV vs. Pre-Knobs

Consistency = Focus Can audience see/read content?

TIP #3 - TEXT

YOU are subject-matter-expert K.I.S.S. principle One main point per slide Rule of 6x6 Make it legibleHeadings – 40’sBullets – 24 to 36pts

TIP #4 - GRAPHICS

Powerful tool to emphasize or illustrate Use thoughtfully in presentationIs image necessary?Is image appropriate? (content & audience)

Don’t over-salt the presentation

TIP #5 - THEMES

Collection of backgrounds, fonts, and colors Provides consistency Change the color for new topicExample Is it appropriate?

TIP #6 - ANIMATIONS

Highlight

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

Apse

Chapel

Crossing

Nave

Transept

West Portal/Facade

TIP #6 - ANIMATIONS

Highlight Illustrate complex topics

July 21st

Armada leaves Corunna to sail up English Channel to Low Countries, where army to invade England is to be waiting.Medina-Sidonia sends pinnace to duke of Parma there, requesting him to mobilize troops.

July 30th Armada enters English Channel, where Medina-Sidonia is surprised to find main English fleet at Plymouth.

Armada adopts crescent battle formation.

After delay caused by tides and wind, English fleet sails to meet it.

July 31st-Aug. 1st English attack outermost Spanish vessels with long-range gunfire. Nothing is sunk but San Salvador explodes. Overnight, Drake breaks line to capture payship Rosario. English fleet regroups; Medina-Sidonia consolidates Armada's crescent formation and sends message to Parma urging rendezvous at Calais.

SPANISH ARMADA, SPANISH ARMADA, 15881588

Aug. 2nd Armada reaches Portland Bill.

English and Spanish ships engage in fierce battles. Frobisher in Triumph fights off multiple attack.

English ships fire heavily on Spanish but do little damage. Their ammunition runs low.

Aug. 3rd – 6th English fleet divides into four squadrons and stops Armada entering Solent.

Armada sails east and English fleet follows but has too little ammunition to renew attack.

Armada drops anchors off Calais but discovers Parma's army is not ready.

Aug. 7th – 8th During night, English fireships break Armada's formation. Battle of Gravelines sees nine hours of close fighting between English and Spanish ships. Many vessels on both sides are damaged. One Spanish ship sinks, and English fleet, helped by storm, drives rest into North Sea.

Aug. 13th After being harried by English ships and battered by storms, Armada sails north, intending to round coast of Scotland and sail south to Spain.

Conditions on board are poor.

Aug. 24th Storms disperse Armada off north coast of Scotland.

Sept. – Oct.Fierce storms drive many ships towards Irish coast.

More than 25 ships are wrecked and thousands of crew drown or are killed by English soldiers when they reach shore.

Sept. – Oct.About two-thirds of Armada eventually escapes bad weather and sails home to Spain.

TIP #6 - ANIMATIONS

Highlight Illustrate complex topics Engage

In what year wasCharleston founded?

1670 1680 1690

Correct!

Proceed to the next question…

Incorrect.

Charleston, or Charles Towne, was founded in 1670.

Proceed to the next question…

In what year wasthe Charleston Earthquake?

1780 1886 1912

Correct!

Proceed to the next question…

Incorrect.

The earthquake hitCharleston on August 31, 1886.

Proceed to the next question…

TIP #6 - ANIMATIONS

Highlight Illustrate complex topics

Engage (great with interactive whiteboards and projectors!)

QUESTIONS??

RESOURCES

PowerPoint 2010

From PPT Help Online:

What is a Theme?

Applying a Theme

Applying Multiple

Themes

PowerPoint 2013

Open PPT Help to Find:

“Change the colors, fonts, and

effects”

“Apply multiple slide designs

(themes) to one presentation”