presentation making guidelines

Presentation Making

GuidelinesKey Points of Making Presentations

Doncho Minkov

Telerik Corporationwww.telerik.com

Technical Trainer

Table of Contents Clearing the Idea Collecting the Information Getting Started Formatting the Content Styling of the Content Using PPT Templates Decorations Tips and Tricks Summary

Clearing the IdeaWhat to Include? What to Exclude?

Use mind mappings

1. Draw a circle

Clearing the Idea

Topic

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2. Write the topic

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1. Draw a circle

2. Write the topic

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4. Connect with the first

Clearing the Idea

Use mind mappings

1. Draw a circle

2. Write the topic

3. Make more circles

4. Connect with the first

5. Select the most important circles

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Use mind mappings

1. Draw a circle

2. Write the topic

3. Make more circles

4. Connect with the first

5. Select the most important circles

6. Remove the rest

Clearing the Idea

Presentation making

Before

Collect

Mind mapping

Research

Clear the Idea

Making

StylingArranging

Clearing the Idea (2)

At the end you should have something like a Table of Contents Or at least a blueprint, something

to begin with Mind mapping software

FreeMind iMindMap Etc…

While Clearing the Idea

Know your audience!

Remember the complexity

How detailed should it be?

Collecting the Information

Collecting the InformationHow to do it?

Blogs

Books

Google

Colleagues

Collecting the

InformationLive Demo

Getting Started

Getting Started

What we have so far?

1.Table of Contents (mind map)2.Bunch of materials

Getting Started

You should make sure that your presentations are well structured, organized and consistent Not a random list of bullet points

with no logical order

Formatting the Content

How to Format the Information?

Key Principles

Key principles of presentation creation

Keep the sentences short

Keep the text on

slide small

Use high contrast

colors

Use as large fonts as

possible

Example of Bad Presentation

Hello! My name is Doncho Minkov and today we will talk about HTML Fundamentals. We will see the basics of the Hyper-Text-Markup Language and will explain what is a tag in HTML, the parts of a HTML document, and some of the tags….<a> this is the tag 'a'. 'a' comes from anchor and this tag is used for redirecting from one HTML document to another…

bla bla bla

Content Formatting

Avoid "all words slides"

Keep lines up to 7 (+/-2) for a slide

Limit the bullet points to 4-8

Make text into bullet points

Words

Content Formatting (2)

When too much text on a slide

The audience starts reading

and not listening

The audience could fall asleep

Less flexible for the speaker

Arranging the Content Example of a bad slide

This could be split into at least four bullet points (4 sentences)

The title is not fully corresponding with the

content

Arranging the Content Can be easily transformed in two slides

Styling of the ContentWhat Background, Font and Colors to

Use?

Use contrast background and foreground!

Dark background andlight foreground?

Light background and dark foreground?

or

Example of a Badly Selected Background

and Colors Can anything be seen?

Hardly

Image if the sun is lighting the screen

This looks much better!

But generally this background is too fancy

Font

Contrast to the

background

Consistent Large

Use common font faces

Gives impression of professionalis

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Example of a

Badly Selected Font What if I choose such a Font?

Does it look Good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good?

No it doesn't!

Avoid Fancy Colors! Sample text with different colors

This is an example how not to use colors

This is an example how not to use colors

This is an example how not to use colors

This is an example how not to use colors

Sample text with non contrast colors This is an example how not to use

colors This is an example how not to use

colors This is an example how not to use

colors

Using PPT TemplatesBuild-In and Professional Templates

What is a PTT Template?

This is a ready template for your presentations Defined font colors and faces Defined places for the titles,

contents, etc. Defined background Etc.

Sometimes it is a good idea to use templates Not all ready templates are good Spares you thinking of the right

color They are made by designers

PowerPoint Templates There are some built-in templates

But can also be downloaded from the web

Examples of free PPT templates:

http://www.presentationpoint.com/powerpoint-templates

/

http://www.templateswise.com/

Styling the ContentLive Demo

DecorationsIt is Almost Over

What to decorate?

Title slides

Contents slides

In all empty places of the presentation

Final Touches (2) The pictures/images should not be random This only makes the presentation

more distracting The pictures should be connected with the subject i.e. if the title is "C# OOP"

Good picture is Bad picture is

Tips and TricksMedia, Animations

Animations?

Very pretty

So Shiny!

But Harmful

Or may be…

Takes time to make

Summary Clearing the Idea Collecting the Information Getting Started Formatting the Content Styling of the Content Using PPT Templates Decorations Tips and Tricks Summary

Questions?

Presentation Making Guidelines