planning a presentation advice on what to do before you start using powerpoint
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Planning a Presentation
Advice on what to
do before you
start using
PowerPoint
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Planning a Presentation
• Do I need PowerPoint?• What are the objectives of the Presentation?• What will be interesting to them?• Create a verbal structure first• Distil and trim• Time your presentation• Check your venue
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How to Present a Presentation
Advice on how
to perform
during a
presentation
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How to Present a Presentation• Create a calm, relaxed atmosphere• Try to enjoy it• You are in charge• Interruptions• Crisp and Clear• Try not to “err”
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Advice on delivering presentations
• Make your objectives clear• Don’t read from a script• Move around, gesture• Dynamic voice pitch• Eye Contact and Smile
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• When showing a new slide– Gesture toward text– Then simplify or elaborate
• Face your audience• Invite discussion
Advice on delivering presentations
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Advice on delivering presentations
• Your audience wants you to succeed• Don’t Pretend – own up!• "There is nothing wrong with stomach
butterflies! You just have to get them to fly in formation!”
• Corny?• Try not to fill slides with
Useless info like this…
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Tips and advice on slide creation
How to create
an effective
presentation
using
PowerPoint
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Designing Slides – Font Size
• Make your text large!• Titles should be around 36 – 40
point or more (this is 40 point). • Body text should be about 24 point or
more (this is 32 point).• This is 24 point.• This text is 18 text that is smaller than 24 point is TOO SMALL!
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Designing Slides - Fonts
• Choose a sans serif font like Arial • Use a colour format that gives good
contrast between background and text• Do not mix fonts• Remember 9% of the population are
colour blind
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• Opposite colours are called complements.
• Complements contrast well and create a dynamic effect
• If it makes you wince don’t use it!
Designing Slides - Colour
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Give yourself a Cue• Know when a slide has ended• Put a marker:
– Coloured letter– Different Font– Small picture
• This is the last paragraph
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Background check…
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Use of Punctuation Slides