tips in developing a presentation
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Tips in Developing a Presentation. Organize your Ideas!. Cathy Pierson IT Liaison. Tip 1 – Background Tip 2 – Content/Visuals Tip 3 – Final Preparation. Tip 1 – Background. Who are you presenting to? Audience knowledge level - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tips in Developing a Presentation
Organize your Ideas!
Cathy PiersonIT Liaison
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Tip 1 – Background Tip 2 – Content/Visuals Tip 3 – Final
Preparation
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Who are you presenting to? Audience knowledge level Disposition of the audience
(friendly, supportive, neutral, hostile)
What is the room setup? A/V equipment Staff supply the equipment Size of room & font size!
Tip 1 – Background
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Tip 2 – Content/Visuals
Bullet Points Only. Sentences are too long! Separate slides for each topic.
Test Your Visuals. Are they easy read? Simple to follow? Do they illustrate your point?
Compare this! One | TwoCompare this! One | Two
Use One Font typeTitles – 42 pointsBullets -32 points
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Tip 2 – Content/Visuals Seeing makes the most sense
Best way to teach Increase the retention of messages
Use charts and graphs To illustrate important numbers /
figures. Use the real thing if possible.
Photos, scanned imagesThe Most Important Rule: Keep It Simple!
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Tip 3 – Final PreparationHave you finished?? Who will set up the projector
and connect your laptop? Do you have a backup copy of
your presentation on disk? Have you practiced?
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Good Tips…Master Slides Use the Master
Slides Setup fonts colors
and sizes Add Logos or
objects used on every slide
Add Header and Footer info
Use Background Color & Fill Effects
NOTE: Dark Backgrounds are NOT good for printing slides!
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Use simple uncluttered backgroundsDisclose a point at a time to direct
attentionGray out information already
coveredUse color to direct attentionUse bullets as a visual guide
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Use simple uncluttered backgroundsDisclose a point at a time to direct
attentionGray out information already
coveredUse color to direct attentionUse bullets as a visual guide
IT Tech Series - http://it.ou.edu
Use simple uncluttered backgroundsDisclose a point at a time to direct
attentionGray out information already
coveredUse color to direct attentionUse bullets as a visual guide
IT Tech Series - http://it.ou.edu
Use simple uncluttered backgroundsDisclose a point at a time to direct
attentionGray out information already
coveredUse color to direct attentionUse bullets as a visual guide
IT Tech Series - http://it.ou.edu
Use simple uncluttered backgroundsDisclose a point at a time to direct
attentionGray out information already
coveredUse color to direct attentionUse bullets as a visual guide
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1. Put a slide in that leaves blank answer until you hit the space bar -
2. to test your audience!!!3. attention/retention on your
information.
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Diagrams to Illustrate Concepts
Our Staff
Tom Manager Mary Manager Bob Manager
John Staff
Jim Assistant Anna Assistant
Organizational charts –
Physical Sciences
Social SciencesHumanities
Venn Diagrams
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10
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60
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1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
EastWestNorth
ChartsNote: No-
growth levels
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Recording narration Watch the next series of slides Requires a sound card, microphone and
speakers (or headset)
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Start recording… For Lecture Notes
Insert your comments on each slide! Every slide retains your comments. Go back & forth with arrow Keys &
space bar
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‘John Madden’… free hand!
In the Slide Show, you can Right-Click the mouse & choose
Pointer Options > PenLook what you can do!
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Sounds etc. Example 1 Example 2 – ongoing sounds
Ongoing - Under Slide Transitions - Sound - Other Sound & Browse local computer. Check Loop until next sound
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PowerPoint & sound size Sound adds a lot
to the file size! Use
Other support tools to optimize sound!
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PowerPoint & sound size, cont’d
http://www.impatica.com
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Video in PowerPoint Take a look at this! Video files - *.avi – are stored
externally to PowerPoint. Put in same folder
as *.ppt files
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More Video!
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Good Luck! Tip 1 – Background Tip 2 – Content/Visuals Tip 3 – Final Preparation
Be Creative!!Student Examples: