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WARNING
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Boring PowerPoint presentations can cause a slow and painful death.
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Your addiction to PowerPoint.
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Welcome to PowerPointers Anonymous
Here, we can show you ways to create interesting and exciting presentations and
help you kick your PowerPoint habit.
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Click the picture to see an example.
Prezi allows you to zoom in and out on images and concepts across a large area (NO SLIDES), create motion paths and embed images and videos to show relationships in what you are presenting.
http://prezi.com/
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Glogs are interactive posters made by users from images, text, music and video. It's fantastic!http://www.glogster.com/
You can also try Juxio.com, another poster creation site.
Click to see the interactive poster.
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Create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. http://www.dipity.com/
Click to see timeline example.
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Produce completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.http://animoto.com/
Click to see sample Animoto videos.
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But…
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Sometimes PowerPoint is unavoidable.
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For example, this presentation against using PowerPoint, actually IS a PowerPoint. Ironic.
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If you still insist on using PowerPoint (or if your teacher still insists you use it)
at least make it interesting.
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Simple Design Rules:
One Point Per Slide
Few Matching Colors
Very Few Fonts
Avoid too many bullets
Photos, not clipart
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Less Text.
More Imagery.
BOLD Imagery.
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High Quality (Copyright Free) Images
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when it comes to text.
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Most People Speak at 150 words per minute.
Most people READ at 250 words per minute.
So chances are, if you have too much on a slide, they are reading ahead and not paying attention to
you.
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Ditch the Bullet Points Too Many Bullets Makes Things Boring And Too
Hard To
Follow
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Avoid Bad Color Schemes That make it hard to read and Are Distracting
And just don’t look nice.
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible
but not simpler.” -- Albert Einstein
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Follow these rules…
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&
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Sources Hicks, Jaqueline. “Stop Killing Your Students with PowerPoint”
http://www.slideshare.net/sheldonict/stop-killing-students-with-powerpoint-presentation
Kapterev, Alexei. “Death By PowerPoint” http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint
Images Boldness II http://www.flickr.com/photos/poudyal/2502915040/ Death By PowerPoint cheezburger.com/indiechixor/lolz/View/2760941312 Einstein http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradmontgomery/4267300713/ Less is More http://www.flickr.com/photos/gigijin/142233062/ Lion from the Perth Zoo http://www.flickr.com/photos/yagankiely/4006895689/
Created by Julie Rohan, January 2011