Presentation 101

What made it great?

Where?

Who?

Ian Jukes David Warlick Steve Jobs Dick Hardt

Based on the article Avoiding Seven Deadly Multimedia Design

and Presentation Sins by Thomas H. Cunningham.

Letter fonts are too ornate

Thereare toomany different fonts There are too many DIFFERENT font styles And there are too many different font

colors

Avoid the temptation to use fancy fonts Choose one that is easy to read!

Limit to one or two letter fonts Limit to one or two letter styles Limit to one or two letter colors

Be Consistent!

If you must use an ornate font, use it with only a few words

Use ornate fonts correctly

OLD ENGLISH

Old English

Font sizes and/or graphics are too small

Font sizes and/or graphics are too small

Font sizes and/or graphics are too small

Image Source: Flickr User InSectHunter

Font sizes and/or graphics are too small

Image Source: Flickr User InSectHunter

Do not rely on default font sizes

Sometimes they will be too small for people in a large room to read

Think of the people in the back row

Try the 10-foot rule

Too Busy!

The background and text color combinations do not have

enough contrast for legibility.

Make sure that designs and colors in the background don’t conflict with the text

Avoid the color red for text

Never crowd too much information onto a single screen.

Doing so distracts the participant’s attention and forces them to really concentrate in order to merely understand your presentation. It’s best to focus the items in your presentation to only include important points.

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K.I.S.S. Usually less is more!

Keep screens simple and clear

Do not crowd text

Give more information as you speak than is presented on your slides

Follow the eight-by-eight rule of thumb

Generally:

No more than eight words per line

No more than eight lines of text per screen

Use key words

Use contrast

Not leaving a screen up long enough for participants to take notes

Leaving a screen unchanged for too long

If you will not refer to onscreen information for a while, insert a blank slide

Use the handout feature so participants don’t have to take copious notes

Build suspension by progressively revealing information

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Be consistent in the use of special effects (flying text, dissolving, etc.)

Avoid “eye candy” except to add emphasis

What’s more important:Your message or your special effects?

Presentation is all text, no pictures Using only text can be a real drag.

Today’s audience demands a more visual presentation. They want to be entertained while you are teaching them. That’s just the way it is.

Don’t forget that you’re

working with a visual media!

Use pictures, charts,

graphs, and cartoons!

Color Wheel

Photos!

Google Images:

http://images.google.com/

Flickr Storm:

http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

Photos!

Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/

Creative Commons:

http://www.creativecommon.org/

File Conversion: http://www.zamzar.com/

Sharing Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/

T4 Website:

http://t4.jordandistrict.org/powerpoint

Darren Draper

http://t4.jordandistrict.org/

801-567-8774

darren.draper@jordan.k12.ut.us