The document provides PowerPoint presentation tips, including keeping presentations simple with limited text and bullet points, providing a detailed handout rather than copying slides, using graphics judiciously with consistency in visual themes and fonts, and organizing the entire presentation through slide sorting as a storyboard.

1. Essential PowerPoint Rules !

2. keep it simple
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3. limit bullet points & text
use limited
text! (4-6
words!)
give detailed
handout- not
copy of ppt!
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4. transitions
be judicious and careful!
imitate tv news transitions !
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5. graphics
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6. powerpoint templates
consistency
visual theme
don’t use templates!
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7. is it necessary?
graphs
how much detail needed?
pie chart = percentages
vertical bar charts:
changes in quantity over time
line chart =
demonstrate trends
horizontal = compare quantities
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8. use of color
background
consistency
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9. choose fonts deliberately
fonts
can read from back of room
revels character
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10. video & audio
background
concrete example
embed in presentation
no ppt sound effects!
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11. use of slide sorter
storyboard
organize
entire presentation
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