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PowerPoint !!!! orPowerPointless ????

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Tips for creating a powerful presentation

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Which can you read more easily?

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This is dark print on a light background

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this is light print on a dark background

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For PROJECTED presentations, use light print on a dark background. Your eyes are attracted to light.

For PRINTED presentations or those to be viewed on the computer screen, use dark print on a light background.

CONTRAST MATTERS!

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• Single background

• Simple graphics• Consistent fonts• Minimal “actions”

The information is the message, not the “flash”.

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What did that last slide say???

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• Single background

• Simple graphics• Consistent fonts• Minimal

“actions”

Keep your audience focused on your message!

Don’t get flashy!

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• Don’t center bullets• The text becomes hard to read

• The eyes will not be able to follow it easily

• Left justify for easy viewing

Bullets

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• These bullets are left justified• They are neat and clear• Your eye can more easily follow• Which would you rather read???

Look!

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• left justified• neat and clear• eye can easily follow• no complete sentences• 3-4 words per bullet

Bullets

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Bulletproof Your Slides

Replace bullets for visual impact.

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Charts ListsGraphs VisualsTables Maps

Diagrams Video clipsData Quotations

Bulletproof

Better than bullets,

no?

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Bulletproof Slides

chartsgraphs

tables diagrams

quotationslists

visuals maps

video clips data

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Don’t graphics. no room and is

centerIt leavesfor textconfusing!

Graphics

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• Creates balance• More room for

text• Pleasing to eye• Left placement

leads eyes to the text on the right.www.multied.com/worldPartI/ whImontage.gif

Place graphics off center

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• DON’T USE ALL CAPITALS. IT BECOMES HARD TO READ.

• Capitalize First Letters To Formalize

• Most often, capitalize the first word only.It’s easier to type and to read.

Capitalization Tips

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• One or two font limit• 14 points or higher

This is 14.

This is 20.

This is 28.

This is 36.

This is 44.

This is 14.

This is 20.

This is 28.

This is 36.

This is 44

Font

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One of the biggest mistakes that people make is to put too many words on a slide. Your audience doesn’t want to listen to you as you read to them… and they can become easily distracted by the excess of information on the slide.

Remember that your audience will respond better to your voice.

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On-Screen Information

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• Keep it concise• Easy to

understand• Bullets are focal

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On-Screen Information

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Text• Cite all resources • Bibliographic

citations format• Post on last slide

Graphics• Graphics require

URL posting• Post beneath

graphic• Reduce font to 12• URL for Google

images

Avoid Plagiarism

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U.S.-Latin America RelationsAnnotated Bibliography

Constable, Pamela and Arturo Valenzuela. A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.

This book gives a comprehensive history of life in Chile during the military rule of Pinochet. It includes a brief explanation of the CIA’s role in the coup that installed Pinochet.

Lier, Piet van. “Guatemala: A War Called Peace.” Peace Brigades International. Accessed 24 Feb. 2003. <http://www.peacebrigades.org/guatemala/cap-piet0l.html>.

This site provides “a visual journey” through late twentieth-century Guatemala with text and exquisite photographs. Topics covered include mass graves, indigenous protests, and returned refugee settlement camps.

Create a Bibliography Slide

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Are you proud of your work?

Is your work original?

Show it with a copyright symbol!

©

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• Know your materials• Your slides are your springboard• Write your narrative• Supply ample detail• Elaborate based on bullet points• Rehearse out loud

Oral Presentation

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• Write narrative with partner.• Assign roles.• Rehearse out loud with partner.

Partnerships

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• How do I choose the information to include in my presentation?

• How do I decide which information to display on my slides?

• How do I decide which information to share with the class?

What goes on each slide?

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Enduring Understandings: Essential Concepts

Important to Know

Worth Being Familiar With

Slide Titles

Slide Bullets

PresentOrally

Adapted from McTighe, Jay and Grant Wiggins, Understanding By Design, ASCD, 1999.

Focus on Your BIG Question

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Parts of this presentation are adapted from: http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/ed596/ppoint/sld1.htm

Last Updated February 6, 2007