presentation making guidelines
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Presentation Making
GuidelinesKey Points of Making Presentations
Doncho Minkov
Telerik Corporationwww.telerik.com
Technical Trainer
Table of Contents Clearing the Idea Collecting the Information Getting Started Formatting the Content Styling of the Content Using PPT Templates Decorations Tips and Tricks Summary
Clearing the IdeaWhat to Include? What to Exclude?
Use mind mappings
1. Draw a circle
Clearing the Idea
Topic
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2. Write the topic
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Clearing the Idea
Use mind mappings
1. Draw a circle
2. Write the topic
3. Make more circles
4. Connect with the first
5. Select the most important circles
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1. Draw a circle
2. Write the topic
3. Make more circles
4. Connect with the first
5. Select the most important circles
6. Remove the rest
Clearing the Idea
Presentation making
Before
Collect
Mind mapping
Research
Clear the Idea
Making
StylingArranging
Clearing the Idea (2)
At the end you should have something like a Table of Contents Or at least a blueprint, something
to begin with Mind mapping software
FreeMind iMindMap Etc…
While Clearing the Idea
Know your audience!
Remember the complexity
How detailed should it be?
Collecting the Information
Collecting the InformationHow to do it?
Blogs
Books
Colleagues
Collecting the
InformationLive Demo
Getting Started
Getting Started
What we have so far?
1.Table of Contents (mind map)2.Bunch of materials
Getting Started
You should make sure that your presentations are well structured, organized and consistent Not a random list of bullet points
with no logical order
Formatting the Content
How to Format the Information?
Key Principles
Key principles of presentation creation
Keep the sentences short
Keep the text on
slide small
Use high contrast
colors
Use as large fonts as
possible
Example of Bad Presentation
Hello! My name is Doncho Minkov and today we will talk about HTML Fundamentals. We will see the basics of the Hyper-Text-Markup Language and will explain what is a tag in HTML, the parts of a HTML document, and some of the tags….<a> this is the tag 'a'. 'a' comes from anchor and this tag is used for redirecting from one HTML document to another…
bla bla bla
Content Formatting
Avoid "all words slides"
Keep lines up to 7 (+/-2) for a slide
Limit the bullet points to 4-8
Make text into bullet points
Words
Content Formatting (2)
When too much text on a slide
The audience starts reading
and not listening
The audience could fall asleep
Less flexible for the speaker
Arranging the Content Example of a bad slide
This could be split into at least four bullet points (4 sentences)
The title is not fully corresponding with the
content
Arranging the Content Can be easily transformed in two slides
Styling of the ContentWhat Background, Font and Colors to
Use?
Use contrast background and foreground!
Dark background andlight foreground?
Light background and dark foreground?
or
Example of a Badly Selected Background
and Colors Can anything be seen?
Hardly
Image if the sun is lighting the screen
This looks much better!
But generally this background is too fancy
Font
Contrast to the
background
Consistent Large
Use common font faces
Gives impression of professionalis
m
Example of a
Badly Selected Font What if I choose such a Font?
Does it look Good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good?
No it doesn't!
Avoid Fancy Colors! Sample text with different colors
This is an example how not to use colors
This is an example how not to use colors
This is an example how not to use colors
This is an example how not to use colors
Sample text with non contrast colors This is an example how not to use
colors This is an example how not to use
colors This is an example how not to use
colors
Using PPT TemplatesBuild-In and Professional Templates
What is a PTT Template?
This is a ready template for your presentations Defined font colors and faces Defined places for the titles,
contents, etc. Defined background Etc.
Sometimes it is a good idea to use templates Not all ready templates are good Spares you thinking of the right
color They are made by designers
PowerPoint Templates There are some built-in templates
But can also be downloaded from the web
Examples of free PPT templates:
http://www.presentationpoint.com/powerpoint-templates
/
http://www.templateswise.com/
Styling the ContentLive Demo
DecorationsIt is Almost Over
What to decorate?
Title slides
Contents slides
In all empty places of the presentation
Final Touches (2) The pictures/images should not be random This only makes the presentation
more distracting The pictures should be connected with the subject i.e. if the title is "C# OOP"
Good picture is Bad picture is
Tips and TricksMedia, Animations
Animations?
Very pretty
So Shiny!
But Harmful
Or may be…
Takes time to make
Summary Clearing the Idea Collecting the Information Getting Started Formatting the Content Styling of the Content Using PPT Templates Decorations Tips and Tricks Summary
Questions?
Presentation Making Guidelines