SlidesAdvice by

Richard J BottingCSE School

CSUSB

With advice from Aaron Pritchett

Do not do the slides first (0) Research the topic, (1) Plan the presentation, (2) Write it, (3) Illustrate it with slides, (4) Edit without mercy.

Plan your presentation Divide and conquer!

Each section should have a clear break from the next one.

Next -- slides

Movement Don’t!

Unless it is something special Or it means something.

Or (rarely) to wake people up.

Show or Tell?

Show facts on slides.

Tell stories and feelings.

Three Good Layouts Heading and Picture Heading and simple graphic Heading and some bullets

Two examples . . .

Heading + Picture Jane Curnutt at Mauna Kea

Simple Bar Graph

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Empty Space is OK

No Paragraphs Hand out hard copy of long texts.

Hand out after the presentation. Otherwise ask people to read bits of it.

Mix Layouts Not too many Head + Bullets slides

With thanks to the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Machine_gun_M2_1.jpg

No Keyword Bullets

Bullet points should be sentences.

Scale

Font sizes should be more than 16 point

Make important points bigger.

A Big hall means use a bigger bolder font

Acknowledgements can be small.

Fonts A San Serif font works best on slides.

Unless, of course, you don’t care whether anybody can read the message or not.

Color Use for moods and style not facts.

Foreground must standout from background

Enough about formatting slides

What slides must you have?

Slides you must have? You must say who you are and what you

are talking about. FIRST

You must give your sources. References

You should ask for questions. You must thank the audience.

References Guy Kawazaki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQLdRk0Ziw

Don McMillan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGq3tH4qSw

Desrochers & Cheal of CSUN

Any Questions?

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In Summary Keep slides simple,

Less is more.

THINK

Thank you.