Keep in mind that PowerPoint presentations are meant as a visual aide to the topic you are discussing. Animation and visual effects are good as long as you don't over do it. Each slide should address the area of conversation you are discussing. Again, since this is a visual aide, you want to keep any pictures or words in line with the topic. There should be a seperate slide for any area of conversation that changes.
As an example, If you are doing a presentation on a proper diet, you would section the presentation to include a different slide for the food groups. You could also add slide to what food groups are recommended for breakfast, lunch, diiner, and snack. A slide for calorie intake and what foods add calories as well as burns calories. In each slide, you should use a picture or pictures of the topic. If you have a slide for fruits, put pictures of bananas, oranges, apples, If it is a slide for breakfast, put a picture of berakfast foods.
Along with the pictures, format is important. Do put paragraphs in your slide. You don't even need sentences. Your verbal presentation will take care of this. Put key points in your slide. Bulleting the points are good as well.
For a Vegetable slide you would put...
- Green Vegetable
- Orange vegetables
- White Vegetables
- Nutricianl Values
Such as that. This gives the audience key points to look at without distracting them from the conversation. You acn also animate those as well. Have Green Vegetables appear when you talk about them. Then as you move on to Orange vegetables, click the mouse and Orange vegetables will appear, and so forth.
There are many other tircks that can be used but the primary reason for a visual aide, such as power point, is to give the audience something to look at that will relate to the lecture, the focus should be on the lecture though.
2007-08-06 03:32:57
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answered by eagle8648 2
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when giving a PowerPoint or any presentation, keep i simple. PowerPoint has just too many effects these days that you tend to want to use them all.
Don't cram too much on each slide, best to have just 3 or 4 points, easy to read, better to have more slides easiser to read than less crammed full. Remember, a presentation says a lot about the person who designed it. Golden rule of advertising, because in a way you are advertising yourself - white space.
Use the master slide for conformity to set up colours, styles, background etc.
Don't have too many different effects.
changing the colour of text once it's come in keeps the audience's attention, thinking did that really happen!#Give handouts/audience notes to your audience so they know what to expect. If you have an automatic running show, make sure that even if you have the effects coming in fast, the transition time is sufficient to allow everyone to read the whole slide before moving to the next. If you are speaking as you run the presentation, remember to face your audience, speak to them, not to the screen, and stand to the side of the screen so as not to obscure audience's view.
Lastly, although you may give out audience notes, it is always an idea to create a contents slide - the program does it for you automatically taking the contents from each Title frame.
2007-08-06 20:59:59
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answered by Anonymous
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It Depends on how long your presention needs to be.
If its a while and you have other things to show, while the presentation is going on,then animmations and music is OK.
However if its to be really professional than use Big Fonts and lots of bullet points. Use some Graphs. But make sure overall you stay true to your theme to maintain a good visual appeal. NO misspelling they will focus on that the rest of the presentation and will not hear anything your saying.
2007-08-06 15:57:38
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answered by William W 2
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Hi,
Presentation magazine has lots of ideas about the best ways to create effective presentations.
Click the link below.
-Jim
2007-08-02 16:44:39
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answered by jimgmacmvp 7
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