How to Give a Powerful Presentation

By: Jenna Garey

Keep the learner interested

Don’t distract your audience with crazy template designs

Don’t go off topic

Use visuals to keep learners on point with your topic but don’t get crazy.

Be Consistent

Power point has multiple tools such as : Font/size/color Bullets Clip Art/Pictures Slide Themes Smart Art Graphics/Tables Spacing/ Paragraph Format

Don’t be afraid to use them

Use Your Tools

1. Use plain text, don’t write with CAPS for your

whole slide, its tires the eye. 2. Font color needs to easy to read. 3. Use bold and italics sparingly. 4. Leave some “white” space. 5. Effects should not be over done. Use the same one.

Rules for Text & Graphics

Cut out the adjectives you want to be clear.

As the speaker you can fill in the rest of the information.

Chop out all information that is not relevant.

Cut Out the Unnecessary

Templates All content pages should be the same, except the

Title page

Inconsistent slides distract the learner from your message.

Stick with one theme or create your own template using the tools discussed earlier

Lever-Duffy, Judy, McDonald, Jean B. Teaching and Learning

with Technology. Boston, MA. Pearson Education, Inc., 2003. 4th Edition.

21st Century Fluency Project http://www.committedsardine.com/funnystuff.cfm.

Jukes, Ian. Bringing Down the House: Creating Sensational Knock-Your-Socks Off Presentations. The Info-Savvy Group. 2005.

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