This document provides tips for using PowerPoint effectively in presentations and avoiding common pitfalls:
- PowerPoint should enhance a presentation by illustrating key points with visuals like photos and charts, not serving as the presentation itself. 際際滷s should have sparse text and information.
- Avoid unnecessary transitions, animations and "tricks" as they do not add value. Ensure high contrast for readability.
- Focus should remain on the speaker, not the screen. Keep motion and slides to a minimum unless showing videos. The goal is engaging the audience.
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2. A multimedia tool that reaches
students with different learning
styles.
Students learn visual literacy by
communicating in this medium.
Also, this program has the
capability of including video and
easily links to the internet.
3. Write a script
One thing at a time, please.
No paragraphs
Pay attention to design
Use images sparingly
4. Think outside the screen
Have a hook
Ask questions
Modulate, modulate, modulate.
Break the rules
5. The goal is improved learning
Be conservative keep it simple
Use contrast (dark-on-light or light-
on-dark, for example)
People see graphics first, then text
6. Be concise with text
One concept per slide
Plan on spending two minutes per
slide
Limit use of special effects
(animation, sound, transitions)
7. Background patterns usually
make screens harder to read
When creating original media, use
the best equipment you can find
Edit files to a minimum meaningful
length and size
8. Leave the lights on
Blank the screen when not using
the presentation
Face the students and don't block
the screen
Print out large blocks of
text, rather than presenting them
on the screen
10. Analyzing and synthesizing
complexities
Enriching curriculum with
interdisciplinary
Increasing spontaneity and
interactivity
Increasing wonder
11. Although there are many
potential benefits to
PowerPoint, there are
several issues that could
create problems or
disengagement.
12. Teacher-centered. Students often
respond better when instructors
have designed sessions for greater
classroom interaction.
Potentially reductive. PowerPoint
was designed to promote simple
persuasive arguments. Design for
critical engagement, not just for
exposure to a point.
13. Potentially reductive. PowerPoint
was designed to promote simple
persuasive arguments. Design for
critical engagement, not just for
exposure to a point.
Presentation graphics should be
about learning, not about
presentation.
14. PowerPoint presentations should help
students organize their notes, not just
be the notes.
This is a particular danger with
students who grew up accustomed to
receiving PowerPoint notes to study
from.
Some may require convincing that
notes should be taken beyond what is
already on the slides.
15. Lack of feedback.
PowerPoint-based lectures tell
you nothing about student learning.
Design them to include
opportunities for feedback (not
simply asking if there are
questions, but more actively
quizzing your students).
16. PowerPoint, when displayed via a
projector, is a useful tool for showing
audiences things that enhance what
the speaker is saying.
It is a useful tool for illustrating the
content of a speech, such as by
showing
photos, graphs, charts, maps, etc., or
by highlighting certain text from a
speech, such as quotations or major
ideas.
17. 際際滷s used in a presentation should
be spare, in terms of how much
information is on each slide, as well
as how many slides are used. In
most cases, less is more, so four
lines of text is probably better.
Dont display charts or graphs with a
lot of information.
18. Unless youre an experienced
designer, dont use the transition
and animation tricks that are built
into PowerPoint, such as bouncing
or flying text.
By now, most people roll their
eyes when they see these
things, and these tricks add nothing
of value to a presentation.
19. Above all, use high-contrast color
schemes so that whatever is on
your slides is readable.
Get used to using black slides.
There are few speeches that need
something displayed on the screen
all the time.
20. Concentrate on keeping the
audience focused on you, not on
the screen.
Keep motion on the screen to a
minimum, unless youre showing a
movie or a video.
Engage the audience, and use
slides only when they are useful.
21. Learn how to give a good speech
without PowerPoint.
This takes practice, which
means giving speeches without
PowerPoint. Believe it or not, public
speaking existed before
PowerPoint, and many people
remember it as being a lot better then