These articles have some great advice for making a PowerPoint presentation, although I have heard most of these tips. The article "Really Bad Power Point - and How to Avoid It" was enjoyable and I liked how it made fun of the bad issues of PPT but then corrected the problems and stated what should be done. I also liked the faculty advice article because I have had professors do some of the things the article advises against.
To me, some of the most important tips for making a PPT include: having legible fonts, having appropriate colors (nothing too flashy), limiting slide and word transitions, using enough pictures to make it interesting but not inundated, and most importantly limiting the amount of words on a slide. The most annoying thing in a PPT presentation is having all of the words on the slide so that the presenter ends up reading the PPT. Using crazy fonts, colors, and transitions is forgivable, but reading the slides like a book is not!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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Yeah totally, if the person is going to read off the slide, I'd rather just read it myself.
I really enjoyed your presentation. You really knew what you were talking about and your presentation highlighted what you were saying without saying it for you.
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