Giving Effective

Presentations

Johnston M. Ayang-ang
johnston_c2ng@hotmail.com
 Why are we here?
Does this matter to me?

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Agenda
• Limitations of PowerPoint
• Design strategies
• Presentation strategies
• Distribution strategies
• Good, the bad, and the ugly activity

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Limitations of PowerPoint

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Articles about PowerPoint misuse
• Death by PowerPoint
• Official: PowerPoint is bad for Brains
• Bad PowerPoint: When is enough enough?
• PowerPoint: Shot with its own bullets
• PowerPoint is evil
• Does PowerPoint make us Stupid?
• PowerPoint: Can software edit our thoughts?

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Limitations of PowerPoint – Tufte

1. Low resolution
2. Bullet outlines dilute thought
3. Deeply hierarchical and linear structure
4. Fragments narrative and data
5. Preoccupation with format, not content
6. Decoration

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Design Strategies

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1. Use more useful visuals or give handouts

2. Use clear headings, numbered lists or very

few bulleted outlines

3. Use plain, non-distracting backgrounds; use

information rich and relevant images

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1. Use more useful visuals or give handouts

2. Use clear headings, numbered lists or very

few bulleted outlines

3.Use plain, non-distracting backgrounds; use

information rich and relevant images

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1. Use more useful visuals or give handouts

2. Use clear headings, numbered lists or very

few bulleted outlines

3. Use plain, non-distracting backgrounds;

use information rich and relevant images

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Contrast
Alignment
Repetition
Proximity
Contrast

Good Bad
Alignment

Good Bad
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for my
grandmother.
Repetition and Proximity

Good Bad
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1. PowerPoint should support objectives
2. Avoid PowerPoint templates
3. Avoid using more than one level of bullets
4. Less is better: less words & less slides
5. Avoid distracting clip art/unrelated images
6. Avoid distracting slide transitions
7. Use CARP to improve design
8. Avoid using all CAPS
9. Leverage multimedia: visual & audio when
appropriate
10.Don’t let PowerPoint control your presentation
Move Beyond Static Text

1. Interactivity We need to think of ways to get

students to interact and actively
2. MS Producer for PPT engage inMStheir learning.
Producer is a good tool if
you want to add audio and
video to your slides.
3. Articulate Presenter Articulate Presenter offers
It is also free!
a seamless (but expensive)
4. Impatica for PowerPoint alternative to Producer.
Impatica
Also has quizis an making
easy tool to
convert
tools. PowerPoint slides
5. Games for the web. can used to
PowerPoint
Digital stories can
create learning be an
games to
effective way to online
engage students build
6. Digital Stories teacher presence online.
Design Strategies:
According to
the experts

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Presentation Strategies

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1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

1. Practice your Presentation

2. Test your PowerPoint before giving it

3. Learn how to move from slide to slide

4. Use the “B” key (or the “W”)

5. Don’t be locked to your PPT or the podium

6. Use numbers to navigate your slides

7. Have a “plan B” if the technology fails

Distribution Strategies

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Activity

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• http://www.socialstartups.com/2007/06/26/microsoft-and-horri
ble-powerpoint-slides/

• http://christyluther.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/poor-presentati
on-slides/

• http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/worst_powe
rpoin.html

• http://elmhurst.edu/~jacobh/WorstPresentationEverStandAlon
e.ppt

• http://www.slideshare.net/jdornberg/worlds-worst-powerpoint31
Questions ?

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Resources
PowerPoint Viewer - http://tinyurl.com/3buwr5
PowerPoint Producer - http://tinyurl.com/4mcn69
Articulate - http://www.articulate.com
Impatica - http://www.impatica.com
Games - http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/index.html
Digital Stories - http://www.storycenter.org
Ovation - http://www.adobe.com/products/ovation
OpenOffice Impress - http://www.openoffice.org
SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net
Inspiration - http://www.slideshare.net/contests/

Patrick R. Lowenthal | patrick.lowenthal@ucdenver.edu