Slides for presentation
When designing your PowerPoint slides
- use ready made templates provided by PowerPoint
- keep it simple and short (KISS), avoid overcrowding
- avoid long sentences but use points form; bullets are acceptable and should be used appropriately
- if you have a long sentence, then highlight/color the key words or terms that you want your audience to focus on or to remember
- keep ONE idea or concept or issue in ONE slide; avoid overalapping ideas or concepts in one slide
- keep 6 lines per slide
- keep 6-8 word per line per slide
- keep 3 font color per slides
- use appropriate graphics/images to illustrate you points
- use maximum of 3 graphics per slide, if you need to
- avoid fancy looking slides
- be CONSITENT with your design: background, color, font, proximity
- use special effects (animations/transitions) where appropriate, not on all slides, not all the time; use them to reveal one point after another, to emphasize certain points, to illustrates your points, to show significance
- want more…refer to class notes Visual Principles 2010, download from SPIN
When you present the slides
- speak from the slides, elaborate your points by referring to the points form in the slides
- do not read everything in your slides verbally unless it’s a quotation
- do not block the view of your audience
- use laser pointer or cursor arrow to point to your content in the slides; avoid using finger near the screen.
- maintain eye contact with your audience; avoid seeing the projection screen most (or all) the time; instead, look at the computer screen in front of your and not the projection screen behind you.
Watch these great videos for some tips