PowerPoint is used by over 500 million users to create over 30 million presentations each day worldwide, primarily for business and educational purposes. When creating a presentation, the presenter should consider the audience, their existing knowledge, the learning objectives, and the presentation conditions. Effective presentations use simple slides without fancy transitions, full sentence headlines written as assertions, and the easiest to read fonts like Arial Narrow. PowerPoint is commonly used for classroom teaching, tutorials, seminars, meetings, conferences, sales and marketing, events, corporate meetings, training, and information kiosks.
5. ? ? When creating a power point ask yourself: ? ?
Who is the audience
What do they know about the material?
What do you want them to learn by the end of the lecture?
Where will the presentation take place and under what condition?
6. Full-sentence headlines written as an assertion are more effective than a single word or
phrase at the top of the page.
Fronts:
Arial Narrow; Arial Unicode MS; Bookman Old Style
Are the easiest to read on a PowerPoint and in fact help with material retention.
Research has proven that simple slides without fancy transitions and
complicated backgrounds provide the best learning tools for students.
Focus = Headlines
Key Point = Most Important information on slide