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Creating an Effective Presentation

LESSON 5

1. Minimize – Keep slide counts to a minimum to maintain a clear message and to keep the
audience attentive.
2. Clarity – Avoid being fancy by using a font style that is easy to read. A font size of 72 is
about an inch.
3. Simplicity – Use bullets or short sentences. Summarize the information on the screen to
have your audience focus on what the speaker is saying than on reading the slide Limit
the content to six lines and seven words per line. This is known as the 6x7 rule.
4. Visuals – Use graphics to help in your presentation but not too many to distract the
audience.
5. Consistency – Make your design uniform. Avoid having different font style and
backgrounds.
6. Contrast – Use light font on dark background or vice versa.
Using hyperlinks in MS PPT
- Using hyperlinks in your presentation is an easy way to navigate slides during your
presentation.
Using Hyperlinks in Microsoft PowerPoint:
1. Select an object or highlight a text.
2. Go to Insert > Hyperlinks (under links category) or use the shortcut key Ctrl + K. The
insert Hyperlink dialog box would appear.

- Embedding objects is easy using PowerPoint Presentation. With this option, you can
insert an Excel file that would look like a table to a PowerPoint Presentation.

Basic Principles of Graphics and Layout

LESSON 6

1. Balance. The visual weight of objects, texture, colors, and space is evenly distributed on
the screen.
2. Emphasis. An area in the design that may appear different in size, texture, shape or color
to attract the viewer’s attention.
 3. Movement. Visual elements guide the viewer’s eyes around the screen.
4. Pattern, repetition, and rhythm create unity and flow in design through repeated elements
and organized movement.
5. Proportion. Visual elements create a sense of unity where they relate well with one
another.
6. Variety. This uses several design elements to draw a viewer’s attention.
Infographics
- Information graphics or infographics are used to represent information, statistical data, or
knowledge in a graphical manner usually done in a creative way to attract the viewer’s
attention.
Online Image File Formats:

Principles and Basic Techniques of Image Manipulation

1. Choose the right file format. Try to make a real-life photograph into GIF to see the
difference between PNG, GIF, and JPEG. Knowing the purpose is the key to finding out
the best file format.
2. Choose the right file format. Try to make a real-life photograph into GIF to see the
difference between PNG, GIF, and JPEG. Knowing the purpose is the key to finding out
the best file format.
3. Choose the right file format. Try to make a real-life photograph into GIF to see the
difference between PNG, GIF, and JPEG. Knowing the purpose is the key to finding out
the best file format.
Basic principles of graphics and layout
1. Font styles
2. Proximity
3. Repetition
4. Contrast
5. Alignment
Online Platforms for ICT Content Development
LESSON 7

- Blogging allows you to develop a strong community and social media allows you to build
a large community.
Online Platforms for ICT Content Development
- Social Media Platforms. Websites like Facebook allow you to create not only personal
accounts but also pages and groups where you can share content.
- Blogging Platforms. It typically looks like a newsletter where you are given options to
change the design to your liking.
- A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer application (sometimes online or
browser-based) that allows you to publish, edit and manipulate, organize and delete web
content. CMS is used in blogs, news websites, and shopping.
Cloud Computing
- There is no need to install any software in our computer.
Advantages
- No need to install
- Saves hard disk space
- Easy access to your software/files; can be ran anywhere as long as there is internet
connection.
- Saves you money from buying software licenses and additional hard disk space
- No need to update because it updates automatically
- Minimum system requirements
- Back up and data recovery are relatively easier than on a physical device
Disadvantages
- Can be hampered down by slow internet speed; no connection, no cloud computing
- May still require compatible software like browser
- You do not own the software; you are simply renting it.
- Security risk of doing things over the Internet as opposed to your personal computer
alone
 - More prone to hacking
- Limited control over the infrastructure itself
Web design principles
- Web design principles are general rules for the design of website that include basic
guidelines for the design of layouts and interaction design.
- It will also help you on how your website will work based on the design you put into it.
Simplicity
- Keep your design as simple as possible so that the users can feel it easy-to-use and can
find what they are looking.
Load Time
- Crowded and over-designed web design can affect the loading time of your website.
Communication
- To establish better communication with the users, you must formulate straight forward
and easy-to digest information.
Responsive
- The best way to design an effective website is to make it mobile-friendly on which the
design of your website can shrink or expands as per the dimension of the screen of the
device.
Web Design Elements
- It is the convergence of all visual elements that contribute for a complete user experience
based on its content, usability and other aspect of the website.
Content
- is considered as the backbone of your website because this is the main reasons people
seeking your website at the first place.
Usability
- anticipates what the users may think and help them fulfill their needs with as little effort
as possible.
Aesthetic
- includes factors such as balance, movement, pattern, scale, shape and visual weight.
Visibility
- The success of your website is based on the volume of user engagement you have.
Interaction
- Adding comment boxes and opinion polls in the design of your website can help you to
improve the functionality of it.

Anatomy of a website
1. Header
2. Logo
3. Navigation
4. Headline
5. Banner/Slider
6. Content
7. Contact form
8. Footer