improve your powerpoint presentation

Lucy Muchiri

How to Improve on your Presentation

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Introduction

PowerPoint is a tool to enhance your message… not to impress your audience

Before You Start…

• Know what you want to say

• Know how you want to say it

• Plan the presentation

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Then..

Title Slide

Title and Content

View, slide Master

Slide master

Title

•44 or 48 point

•CAPITAL LETTERS?

•Bold

•Colours

Title

•Underlined

•Position

•Right

•Left

•Title Case

Font Size

• Consistency! • Size is important

• Preview in your venue • Floor test

•Titles text 32 points

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Font Type

• Consistency!

• Italics

• Bold

• Underlined

• Text Shadow

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Font Type

• Consistency!

• Comic Sans MS • Bradly Hand ITC

• French Script M

• Algerian

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Font Type

• Consistency!

• Verdana

• Tahoma

• Arial

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Color

• Select colors with care

• Projection may change the color

• Make sure letters contrast sufficiently

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Colors

• Red

• Yellow

• Orange

• Light green

• Light blue

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Colors

• Black

• Blue

• Green

• Red

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Backgrounds

• Not busy or distractive

• Use master background templates

• Use pre-selected formats

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The Heart

• Anatomy

• Conducting System

• Blood Supply

• Possible arrhythmias

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Backgrounds & Color

• Avoid busy or distracting backgrounds

• Use master background templates

• Use pre-selected formats if creating your

own template

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Osama is dead

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Osama is dead

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My best flower

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My Best Flower

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Transition and Animation

Transition and Animation

• Don’t get too cute

• Use for emphasis

• Can be distracting

• Simple – but elegant…

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Prepare

The Slide

• One concept per slide

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The heart

Anatomy:

• In the chest cavity

• Size of your fist

• Pumps blood

Heart Attack signs

• Chest pain

• Sweating

• Anxiety

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The heart

Anatomy:

• Location

• Chambers

• Vessels

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The Slide

• One concept per slide

• Preferably only 3 bullet points

• Never exceed “6 x 6” OR “5 X 7”

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Course objectives • Participate in the care of cancer survivors in a clinical setting. • Identify functional improvements in cancer patients receiving

chemo-therapy. • Develop and implement a HQOL tool for cancer patients. • Identify and implement at least one intervention in the hospital that

will assist cancer survivors and their families improve HRQOL. • Reading text/ journals on cancer and chemo-induced symptoms. • Literature review. • Discuss with the preceptor, facilitator and hospital management,

Manager-Chemotherapy unit. • Research reports Verbal and written reports.Oral and written

reports. • Performance evaluation by preceptor.

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Too Much Information?

• Make another slide

• Rearrange

• Simplify

• Handouts

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Course objectives

• Participate in care of survivors • Identify functional improvements • Develop and implement a HQOL tool • Identify and implement an intervention • Literature review

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Text

• Focus

• 5 – 8 second rule

• Use it sparingly

• Show less than you say

• Do not read your slides!

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The Heart

• Anatomy: The Heart is in the chest. It has four chambers, four valves, two vessels that bring in blood and two that take out blood. It also has two vessels that take blood out of the heart. These vessels are called….

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The Heart

• Anatomy

• Conducting System

• Blood Supply

• Possible arrhythmias

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Pictures and Graphs

Pictures and Graphs

• Good pictures

• The graphs demonstrate the point

• Make them large enough

• If resizing, do not lose proportion

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Pictures and Graphs

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Series 1

Series 2

Spelling & Grammar

• Use spell-check. Missppelling makes you look sttuppid!

• Check for homonyms their vs there; Patience vs patients

• Have someone else look it over

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Presentation Hints

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• When finished, review

• Simplify, simplify, simplify

• No more than 3 slides per minute

• Computer Memory

• If not, it can be p…a…i…n…f…u…l to watch

Presentation Hints

• Minimize use of other programs

•Web browser

• Audio and video files

• Know your slide numbers to jump forward and back

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Neat Presentation Tricks

• “B” and “W” keys during slide view

• Use your pointer as an arrow/pen

• Blank slide or title slide repeated at the end

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End of slide show, click to exit.

Presenting

• Practice and time before hand

• Get there early to set up

• Do not apologize for your presentation

• Plan B, C…

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Slide Show

Discussion

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Summary

PowerPoint is a tool

not the presentation!

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Lucy Muchiri