1. How to Survive a Presentation
Style
Techniques
Preparation
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2. How to Survive a Presentation
Plenty of reasons for stage fright.
If you’re not worried, you should be.
Worry now; prepare; relax.
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3. Style Tips Color Contrast Fonts, sizes Information density
Great built-in features
Not-so-great features
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4. Color and Contrast Contrast between text and background
Rules for print and display differ
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5. Diagonal Blue, Light Background
Contrast between text and background
Rules for print and display differ
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6. Overhead Colors Contrast between text and background
Rules for print and display differ
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7. Magenta Color Scheme Contrast between text and background
Rules for print and display differ
A built-in color scheme
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8. Design Templates Contrast between text and background
Rules for print and display differ
A built-in color scheme
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9. Font Choices Rules for print and display differ
Serif fonts work well on paper
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10. Font Choices, Continued
Rules for print and display differ
San-serif fonts are easier to read
on-screen
projected
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11. Default title size: 44 points
Font Sizes
Default title size: 44 points
Default text size: 32 points
Minimum size: 16 points
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12. Less Is More
Some believe a presenter should make sure to include every word to be said in the slide itself, while others discipline themselves to place only the core concepts and key words in the presentation, using them as prompts, or ticklers, to expound upon when giving the presentation.
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13. Less Is More If it’s all in the slides, you can sit down now.
Bullet your key points.
Provide details verbally.
No more than 6 or 7 points per slide.
Use “notes” for details.
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14. Animation Animation … can make your audience nauseous.
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15. Animation Tips Animation can also keep their interest. Use with care.
Be consistent?
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16. Clip Art Can keep interest. Stereotypical and insulting?
Illustrative or distracting?
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17. Tech Tips: Getting Started
Office Assistant
Design templates
Slide masters
Title masters
Color schemes
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18. Tech Tips: Oops
Autosave!
Undo
… and undo again
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19. Tech Tips: Terms Presentation file Toolbars Slide Object Title Text
Clip art
Image
Toolbars
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20. Tech Tips: Webizing File/ Save as Web Page Whose JAVA?
Internet Explorer
Netscape Communicator
Universal format
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21. Tech Tips: Take With You
File/ Pack and Go
Include PowerPoint Viewer
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22. Murphy Must’ve Used PowerPoint
Check out the room.
Bring your own equipment.
Have a Plan B (and C).
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23. What Can Go Wrong?
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24. What Can Go Wrong? Forgot your file PowerPoint formats incompatible
PowerPoint not installed
Computer crashes
Computer-projector interface
Cable and adapter problems
Internet
… and that’s just the technical stuff!
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25. Check out the room Light controls? Screen? Projector Audio? Internet?
Have you used this brand and model?
Who has the remote?
Where are the connections?
How to match screen resolution?
Audio?
Internet?
Computer provided with familiar OS?
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26. Bring your own equipment
Computer you have bonded with
Internet access
Modem
Ethernet adapter
Projector
Cables, adapters
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27. It’s Lonely Up There … Part 1: Projectors
Connections
Matching screen resolution to projector
Focusing & zooming
Selecting inputs
Hiding the screen
Light level
Audio
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28. It’s Lonely Up There … Part 2: Internet
Modem
Long cables, digital line adapter
9, … *70, ISP’s toll-free number (or credit card)
TCP/IP settings, PPP
Help Desk number 
Ethernet
Adapter, long cable, barrel connector
TCP/IP settings, IP address, DHCP
Hotel room and presentation room different?
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29. Plan B Bring universal file format, … on universal medium … or media.
Multiple copies.
Bring your own equipment.
Use Web version.
Have a Plan C.
Good acting: this was plan A all along.
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30. Plan C Printed handouts & notes Overheads Web pages on your own disk
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31. Plan D
Send out for pizza?
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