THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT POWERPOINT RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS

THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT POWERPOINT RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT POWERPOINT RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS @ned_potter YOU’RE A BIT COULD BE BETTER STRESSED OUT because you know your presentations BUT YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START? AN ATTRACTIVE PRESENTATION IS JUST A BYPRODUCT OF AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION. RELAX. AN ATTRACTIVE PRESENTATION IS JUST A BYPRODUCT OF AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION. RELAX. and 4 things really matter for making an effective presentation RULE 1 MORE IMAGES LESS TEXT WORD HEAVY SLIDES can be difficult to read from the back of the room, and people can only listen and read at the same time for a very short period. If they end up having to choose between listening to you talk or reading your slides, you become OUT OF SYNC with your audience. IS YOUR PRESENTATION WORKING WITH YOU OR AGAINST YOU? IMAGES ARE NICE TO LOOK AT, ENGAGING, ENRICHING, AND CAN SUPPORT YOUR STORY. [...]... the images you find BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES HELP PEOPLE LEARN COMPFIGHT FREEIMAGES MORGUEFILE PHOTFUNIA MULTICOLR Morguefile also has stock photography – there are fewer images but they’re free for commercial use TIP: There are images where no attribution is required – these are useful for situations where there’s no room to credit the author, e.g posters, business cards, and tweets BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY,... searches itself, for millions of images TIP: Make sure you choose the ‘Creative Commons’ option after your first search, & ignore the sponsored links above the dotted line BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES HELP PEOPLE LEARN COMPFIGHT FREEIMAGES MORGUEFILE PHOTFUNIA MULTICOLR Freeimages is great for stock photography – there are loads of great images for enhancing slides TIP: Sign up for the free account... it, then move with them onto the next theme DRAW ATTENTION TO IMPORTANT MESSAGES WITH COLOUR OF COURSE, FEEL FREE TO BREAK THE ONE POINT PER SLIDE RULE WITH GOOD REASON INTRODUDCTIONS SUMMARIES COMPARISONS ALL OF THESE THINGS CAN REQUIRE STACKING ON THE SAME SLIDE BUT OTHERWISE GIVE EACH POINT IN YOUR PRESENTATION ROOM TO BREATHE RULE 3 NO BULLET POINTS BULLET POINTS CAUSE ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS • They’re... They’re ugly • They encourage you to put more than one point on each slide • They don’t leave much room for images • They’re symptomatic of a wider DEATH BY POWERPOINT malaise BULLET POINTS ALSO ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE SLIDE ALOUD BULLET POINTS ALSO ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE SLIDE ALOUD And if you’re saying the exact same thing that’s written on the slide, why do you even need to be there? Learning... CAN SUPPORT YOUR STORY People can look at images and listen to you speak at the same time, no problem BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES HELP PEOPLE LEARN BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES HELP PEOPLE LEARN Learning is improved when narration occurs simultaneously with relevant images Click these BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES sites for HELP PEOPLE LEARN amazing images you can use legally with Attribution COMPFIGHT... add to a billboard or painting in Photofunia, create a textbox in PowerPoint, write your text, rightclick and Save As Picture You’ll then have an image of your text to upload into Photofunia BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES HELP PEOPLE LEARN COMPFIGHT FREEIMAGES MORGUEFILE PHOTFUNIA MULTICOLR The Multicolr Search Engine is just about the most fun you can have finding images: it searches by colours not keywords... corparate colours in Multicolr… BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES HELP PEOPLE LEARN COMPFIGHT FREEIMAGES MORGUEFILE PHOTFUNIA MULTICOLR MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR IMAGES AND WRITE ON THEM IN A MINIMUM FONT SIZE OF 24… AND WRITE ON THEM IN A MINIMUM FONT SIZE OF 24… (THIS IS 24 If you need it smaller than this, you’re using too much text) RULE 2 MAKE ONE POINT PER SLIDE THIS GOES BACK TO THE IDEA OF BEING IN SYNC WITH... SLIDE ALOUD BULLET POINTS ALSO ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE SLIDE ALOUD And if you’re saying the exact same thing that’s written on the slide, why do you even need to be there? Learning is reduced when information presented is redundant – such as reading text verbatim from slides RULE 4 KEEP IT SIMPLE . THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT POWERPOINT RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT POWERPOINT RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS @ned_potter. great for stock photography – there are loads of great images for enhancing slides. TIP: Sign up for the free account to get full-sized versions of the images you find. BUT MOST. TIP: There are images where no attribution is required – these are useful for situations where there’s no room to credit the author, e.g. posters, business cards, and tweets BUT MOST