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Tips for powerful PowerPoint presentations Based on 2 sources: 1. Extreme Makeover: PowerPoint Edition by Dean Shareski 2. From Average to Awesome: Tips for powerful presentation makeovers by Kevin Lerner By Paula Hall [email protected]

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Page 1: Tips for powerful PowerPoint presentations By Paula Hall · Tips for powerful PowerPoint presentations Based on 2 sources: 1. Extreme Makeover: PowerPoint Edition by Dean Shareski

Tips for powerful

PowerPoint

presentations

Based on 2 sources:

1. Extreme Makeover: PowerPoint Edition by Dean Shareski

2. From Average to Awesome: Tips for powerful presentation makeovers by Kevin Lerner

By Paula Hall [email protected]

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Why use PowerPoint?

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It’s all about ‘Story-Telling”

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When Good PowerPoint

goes Bad!

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1. Distracting Background Templates

(not as cool as they look!)

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Travelling to Egypt

The Mysteries of Egypt

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MS Office

powerpoint-backgrounds.net/

Google new sites and blogs

Template Sources

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2. Give Bullets the Bullet!

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Bullets are certainly useful for organising your information, however:

• We tend to put too many bulleted points on one slide that each need to be explained

• This means that students will be looking at the same slide for far too long

• And, if each line of text is the same colour those reading the slide tend to see the text as one big blur

So, what can we do instead?

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8 Multiple Intelligences

• Logical / Mathematical

• Verbal / Linguistic

• Musical / Rhythmic

• Bodily Kinaesthetic

• Spatial / Visual

• Interpersonal

• Intrapersonal

• Naturalist

Typical Example

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8 Multiple Intelligences

Rather…

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Musical / Rhythmic (Music Smart)

Alternatively…

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Naturalist (Nature Smart)

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3. DON’T JUST TELL ME – SHOW ME!

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Images must be sharp and clear…

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CLEAR IMAGES / FRAMING / BACKGROUND

= far more dynamic!

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Where can I get images from?

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5. Tedious use of

‘Gimmicky’

that serve no real purpose Animations

At ALL!!!

‘Flashy’

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Another typical error is to place far too much information on a single slide. This applies to bulleted information or whole paragraphs of what we consider to be relevant facts. And, once we have filled up a slide in this manner we read every word back to the class as if they are incapable of reading it themselves!

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Using Font that is difficult to read,

or where the contrast is not clear

Remember, just because it looks great on your monitor

Doesn’t mean it will work at a distance!

7. Other Typical Errors include:

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• Presentation Gurus: Lessig, Godin & Atkinson (Youtube.com)

• presentationblogs.com

• google images.com

• flickr.com

• morguefile.com

(Image: Satmetrix.com (2009)

Resources to Check Out

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Reference List:

• Big 13. 2005. peacock [online]. [Accessed 2 February 2010]. Available

from World Wide Web:

<www.big13.net/NBC%20Peacock/real%20peacock.jpg>.

• Extreme Makeover, PowerPoint Edition. 2006. Youtube.com video.

Available via < http://ideasandthoughts.org/videos/ > Directed by Dean

Shareski. Place of production unknown.

• Queens University. 2009. pc_resources [online]. [Accessed 2 February

2010]. Available from World Wide Web:

<http://meds.queensu.ca/assets/pc_resources.jpg >.

• Lerner, K, 2006. From Average to Awesome: Tips for powerful presentation

makeovers, Toastmasters, August 2006

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