PowerPoint Psychology Dan McAllister

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MODULE 1: Catering to PowerPoint’s Strengths

• Psychologically delivering information in 4 smart steps • Avoiding BORING PowerPoints• Common mistakes and why well intentioned people

make them time and again.• Understand what you lose with the most common

mistakes• Using notes, handouts, and the presenter view -

correctly! • Humor and animation - when it helps. (and when it hurts) • How to not overload your users. • Using PowerPoint to increase retention. • Using PowerPoint to create an emotional response, even

in a business environment.• Sample presentation creation & critique

MODULE 2:

• Using PowerPoint as written document. • How to avoid judgment and create “clean”

designs• How to make sure your slides are not

overloaded• Creating slides our brains naturally like. • Design tips and tricks for non-designers—

easy things anyone can learn.• Build and share a real presentation

Resources• www.learnit.com/files

o Choose the class >> the version >> the day >> download the fileso Extract the files from .zip, if needed

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• www.learnit.com/manualso User name = manualso Password = password (lowercase)

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• Often the manuals are huge, so don’t bother printing them

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Books (not free)

Book$ from Micro$oft Pre$$• Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Step by Step ~=

$20• Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 – Step by Step ~=

$20o Lessons, with practice files you download from

the web

• THERE IS NO Microsoft PowerPoint – Inside Out for either 2010 nor 2013