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The document provides tips for creating an effective PowerPoint presentation, including using a large font size, sans-serif fonts, limiting text on slides, maintaining eye contact with the audience, using a basic slide design with minimal transitions and effects, practicing the presentation, and keeping the content simple. The goal is to convey the message to the target audience in an understandable way without overloading them with information.

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How To Make A Powerpoint Presentation Handout

The document provides tips for creating an effective PowerPoint presentation, including using a large font size, sans-serif fonts, limiting text on slides, maintaining eye contact with the audience, using a basic slide design with minimal transitions and effects, practicing the presentation, and keeping the content simple. The goal is to convey the message to the target audience in an understandable way without overloading them with information.

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An effective presentation

◦ Conveys message to the target


audience well
◦ May be the best way to connect
with a target audience
 Use font size 24 or bigger as
much as possible
 Anything below 24 points is too small
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 Use a sans-serif font (Arial,
Verdana)
 Serif fonts are harder to read on-
screen
 Italics are harder to read on-screen
 Use bold or color for emphasis
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 The audience will read faster than
you will talk.
 Maintain eye contact with the
audience.
6 words per line
 6 lines per slide

 Shoot them with bullets

 Understanding vs. Overload


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 Basic light colored background
and dark text
 Avoid distracting images
 Limit transitions, animations,
and sound effects
 Don’t get hung up on looks
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 Don’t get carried away with
flashy videos, music clips or
graphics
 “flashing slide” is a bad slide
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 Check grammar and spelling
 “American if American, British if
British”
 Title
slide – includes the
following:
◦ Title of presentation
◦ Venue of the presentation
◦ Date of presentation
◦ Name of presenter/s
 Closing slide may be one of
the ff:
◦ “Thank you” or “Open Forum”
◦ A statement such as “We are
now ready to answer your
questions.”
 Use design templates
 Standardize position, colors and
styles
 Be consistent with effects,
transitions and animation
 Oral
communication is different
from written communication
◦ K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid)
◦ make your audience want to read
your paper
 Think about your audience

some are experts in your sub-area,


some are experts in your general area,
and others know little or nothing
 Practice
your talk before the
presentation

it is hard to distill one’s work down to a few


minutes
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PowerPoint presentations of students from Research 1, SY 2009-


2010.

Effective PowerPoint. Retrieved from


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Montecino, V. 1999. Creating and Effective PowerPoint


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