2. Pretty, Powerful PowerPoint Presentations By Deborah A. Chávez Wilton Staff Development Day Wednesday, September 28, 2012

3. Power Point is Easy Hardest Part - What to Say  Organizing Ideas Slides & Bullet Points Fun Part - Dress It Up  Color Schemes, Backgrounds & Fonts  Graphics Google Images, Photos, Scanned Images Charts, Graphs, SmartArt  Transitions & Animations  Audio & Video

4. What to Say Organized Outline Nuggets of Wisdom Brief, Succinct Focused, Concise Avoid unnecessary details

5. How to Say It Bullets  Max. 8 bullets per slide  Max. 5 words per bullet  Avoid Complete Sentences.  Germ of the idea  Concentrated, freeze-dried Talk to the bullets  Speaker notes

6. Fun Part – Dress it Up Visual Impact Graphic Elements Sound Video Transitions Animations

7. Visual Impact Backgrounds  Design Themes  Templates  Scanned Image, Watermark, Trademark Color Schemes Fonts Bullets

8. Graphic Elements Google Images Photos Scanned Images Logos, branding Charts, graphs  SmartArt

9. Sound CD tracks Music downloads .mp3,.mp4,.wav,.wma Recorded Narration Sound effects

10. Video Clips.mp4,.avi,.mov,.wmv, YouTube videos  Requires Adobe Flash  Check PowerPoint help for links Different versions require different plug-ins

11. Transitions & Animations Slide Transitions Object Animations – order & timing  Text Line, Word, letter Level, groupings Fade (don’t dim)  Graphics  Sound  Video

12. Humor Content  What you say Packaging  How you say it  What it looks like How long they’ll listen

13. Powerful Communication PowerPoint is the tool Facilitates Impressive Presentations Easy & Fun Creative Start Simple Add lots of bells & whistles Use humor to keep attention