ILS Session 10• In the course of your lessons in

most subjects, you will, at times, be required to make presentations.

• These will demonstrate not only how good you are at independent learning.....

...but also should impress your teacher and your peers with the new and stimulating ideas and information that you have researched.

• Otherwise it can all be very boring and people will switch off before they learn anything

Use Contrasting Colors

• Light colors on dark background.

• Dark colors on light background.

Basic Rules for Presentations

Basic Rules for Presentations

• Stick with a single background.–The background is the stage for your information.

–Set the stage and leave it alone!

Basic Rules for Presentations

• Don’t try to dazzle the audience with graphics or style…but with the information.

• The medium is not the message.

• The information is the message.

Basic Rules for Presentations

Balance.

• Do not center bullet points.• It makes the text ragged.

• And hard to read and follow with your eyes.

Basic Rules for Presentations

Balance.

• Generally, left-justify bullets.• This keeps things neat..• and easy to follow.

Basic Rules for Presentations

Balance.

Centred graphics leave little room for text.

Basic Rules for Presentations

Balance. • Place graphics off-centre.

• More room for text.• Better balance.• More pleasing to the

eye.• Left placement leads

the eye to the text.

Use Restraint With Fonts

• Employ only a few..stick to familiar fonts

• Stay away from gimmicky fonts unless for a theme.

• Tahoma, Ariel, Verdana good • Keep type sizes consistent.• AVOID ALL CAPS – VERY HARD TO

READ.

Choose Fonts Wisely• Italics are more difficult to read.• Use bold when you want some

words to stand out.• Font size

– NOT Easy to read (18 pt)– NOT Easy to read (24 pt)– Easy to read (32 pt) main text–Easy to read (44 pt)

Avoid Text Overload Having too much text on the

screen can defeat the purpose of using PowerPoint. The slides begin to look like a jumble of text, making slides difficult to read and unrecognizable from each other. People will either try to read everything or copy everything down or they will lose interest. List only the key points. If you have more info to include use more slides or create handouts.

Basic Rules That You Must Have to Have a Good Presentation.

• One of the most common mistakes in creating a presentation is to place too much information on the screen. This can cause the reader to become distracted from the speaker…just like you are now. Audiences are much more receptive to the spoken word.

Basic Presentation Mistakes.

• Too much information.• Reader gets distracted • Audiences are much more

receptive to the spoken word.

Some examples of Poor PowerPoints

Colour• Don’t use similar colours for the text and background.

• Don’t use too many different colours either!

• Don’t use lots of different types of fonts.

• AND be consistent with the size of text.• Don’t use too many features either

• Don’t put too much writing in blocks. It can be really, really boring for people to read lots and lots of uninteresting text about nothing in particular and there isn’t really any point in writing about nothing and making someone read it and making them bored of reading it, is there? So don’t do it, at all, ever!

Animations• Don’t

• Have too many

Spling and grandma• Mayk shore yoor spling is crekt• Yoos. Full stops in the. rite places• put capital Letters oN names and

titLes and the at the beg ning of sentences.

• Spellcheck ur work to remove the squiggly red and green lynes.

• Don’t use too many pictures…

•… and make sure pictures are

appropriate

Basic Rules of presenting

Keep it simple..• Make bulleted points easy to

read.• Keep text easy to understand.• Use concise wording.• Bullets are focal points.• Presenter provides elaboration.

Basic Power Point Guidelines

• Build information…don’t give them too much info at once.

• Stick with the same transition.

• Be creative but leave some color choices to professionals.

• Six words per line (Maximum)

• Six lines per page.(Maximum)

Choosing a Color Scheme• Stick with power point defaults.• What may look good on your

computer may be unreadable in the classroom.

• Remember to use strong, contrasting colors.

Clip Art & Graphics• A few excellent graphics are better

than many poor ones. • Photographs are powerful.• Use sparingly in each slide!• But use relevantly and often

• Religious leader• Civil rights activist• Author/poet• Labor activist• Minister• Antiwar activist

                                        

                                                          

Martin Luther King Jr.• Religious leader• Civil rights

activist• Author/poet• Labor activist• Minister• Antiwar activist

• Most presentations try to cram in too much information and the messages get lost

• The most powerful presentations sometimes use very little text

Less is more

Less is more• As you watch the following

presentation write down any words that sum up your feelings about the way in which it is presented

• Why do you think PowerPoint's can be powerful ways of presenting the material

• http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/thirst?src=embed

• Zimbabwe is also very powerful• http://www.slideshare.net/DanHrstich/zimb

abwe-in-crisis?src=embed