Creating Your PowerPoint Presentation
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This document provides tips for creating an effective visual presentation, including maintaining consistency in design elements, considering the appropriate tone for the topic, limiting information on each slide, using transitions carefully, practicing speech delivery, and using graphics to complement the presentation. The key recommendations are to ensure unified consistency, match the tone and content, restrict information per slide, carefully select transition types and speeds, divide the speech into clear subsections, and leverage graphics with brief explanations.
Creating Your PowerPoint Presentation
- 1. Creating a Visual Presentation Tips and Suggestions for an Effective Presentation
- 2. Considerations Consistency Tone Information Limit Transitions Using Graphics Speech Delivery
- 3. Consistency Make sure elements of your presentation are consistent to create a unified effect. Color Design Transitions
- 4. Tone When creating your presentation, consider the tone of your topic. Select design features that complement that tone. Avoid flashy designs Use color and transitions carefully
- 5. Information Limit Common mistake – putting too much info on one slide Limit amount of info – short phrases and sentences Avoid long blocks of text – find ways to break up text – use slides as guide NOT speech
- 6. Transitions Use transitions/animations carefully. Make sure they are consistent with the tone of your presentation. Also, select one type of transition and use it throughout presentation. Consider… Type of transition Speed of transition
- 7. Speech Delivery Divide presentation into subsections – this makes your speech easier to follow Practice to avoid pitfalls of public speaking (i.e. “uhh…” “…like…” “…you know…” and awkward pauses) Incorporate transitions between subsections (Sign Posts – “first,” “finally”)
- 8. Using Graphics Give brief pieces of info to explain graphics You can present more in speech than is noted on slide
- 9. Questions?
- 10. Questions?