10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC21 Presenting With PowerPoint A Multimedia Authoring and Presentation Tool

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC22 Today’s Objectives: Basic Elements Slide Slide Placeholders Placeholders Working with PowerPoint Views Working with PowerPoint Views Animations and Transitions Animations and Transitions Design Templates Design Templates Graphics Graphics

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC23 Before You Start Who Who is Your Audience? What What is Your Purpose shall you include? Bits Bits and Chunks Graphics Graphics Animations Animations Transitions Transitions

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC24 Display Rules Making sure that Billy on the back row can read your slides.

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC25 Rule of Six Six Words Per Line Six Words Per Line Six Lines Per Slide Six Lines Per Slide Avoid Overcrowding A Slide Avoid Overcrowding A Slide

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC26 10% Border Leave a 10% border around the edge of all slides

Avoid Red and Purple

Avoid Patterns

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC29 Selecting Fonts That Work San serif is better than serif San serif is better than serif Save with embedded fonts Save with embedded fonts Make all text bold Make all text bold Apply a shadow Apply a shadow

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC210 Text Size – Bigger is Always Better Arial Size 32 Arial Size 32 Arial Size 24 Arial Size 24 Arial Size 16 Arial Size 16 Arial Size 12 Arial Size 12 Arial Size 10 Arial Size 10 Arial Size 9 Arial Size 9

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC211 Text Color Light Foreground = Dark Background Dark Foreground = Light Background

10/10/2001Chris Harris - ESC212 Text – Graphics Balance Formal Balance Formal Balance Graphics on Right Graphics on Right Text on Left Text on Left Graphic Balances Text Graphic Balances Text Informal Balance Informal Balance Title is off-set by graphic below Title is off-set by graphic below Text is balanced by the graphic Text is balanced by the graphic Difficult to achieve Difficult to achieve