Presentation by nasrollahi
- 1. Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) By: Zeinab Nasrollahy
- 2. There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world.
- 3. They do 30 million presentations each day
- 4. About a million presentations are going on right now
- 6. LOTS of people are killing each other with bad presentations. NOW.
- 7. They are all DEAD! Well, almost.
- 10. Why are they doing it?!
- 11. Bullets don’t kill people People kill people Unintentionally Yet regularly Research shows: 1 2 3 4
- 12. Why do you present? .To “pass the information”? .Your boss told you to? maybe as a class project? (like me) . Or to make meaning?
- 15. Can’t find the meaning? Don’t present.
- 16. Give 3-4 reasons supporting your point.
- 17. Memorable opening 1 argument 2 argument 3 argument Memorable closing 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 45 Minutes
- 18. You can tell this in... 5 minutes 15 minutes 45 minutes It is scalable
- 19. Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.
- 21. Visualize ideas Create key points Impress PowerPoint helps to:
- 22. How much is an extra slide? $0.00. Zero Dollars. Break it in several. It’s free.
- 23. Stupid “rules” Do you remember the rule: 7 lines per slide or less 7 words per line or less? Well, it is just plain stupid If you follow this “rule” You get a slide like this!
- 24. Simple design rules One point per slide Few matching colors Very few fonts Photos, not clipart 1 2 3 4
- 25. No audience? Present to the furniture. But aloud. Try it.
- 26. Check the room and equipment.
- 27. All this leads to...
- 28. Wow
- 29. An Adaptation of Alexei Kapterev (pdf file)