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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