2. Effective PowerPoint Larry MacPhee e-Learning

3. Part I: Delivery 10 tips for a better presentation

4. 1. State your purpose. Check your aim.

5. 2. Know your audience. Find out what they want!

6. 3. Know your topic. Know your talk.

7. 4. Provide context. i. Outline, ii. Explain, iii. Review.

8. 5. Stay on pace. Manage the flow.

9. 6. Be enthusiastic! Tell them why it matters!

10. 7. Deliver it clearly. Walk them through it.

11. 8. The slides are not the talk. The presenter adds context.

12. 9. Don’t divide attention People can either read or listen.

13. 10. Know your venue. Check the room.

14. Part II: Design 1.Layout 2.Color 3.Graphics 4.Text 5.Data 6.Animation Good design is unobtrusive.

15. Layout AlignArrangeGroup

16. Victory posters. Layout Sample 1

17. Victory posters. Layout Sample 2

18. Color

19. ALL CAPS IN SCRIPT IS HARD TO READ Offensive color palettes and bad contrast are also a problem.

20. Aaaah. Much Better. “A memorable quote” – Author

21. Graphics

22. SOUTHWEST  The SOUTHWEST is warm  pretty sunsets lots of prickly cacti SOUTHWEST  The SOUTHWEST is warm  pretty sunsets lots of prickly cacti

23. Text

24. Emphasize like you mean it!

25. Data

26. Data Visualization Baby Names Wizard News Dots Preservation of Favoured Traces The Visual Thesaurus The art of data visualization.

27. Pointless typewriter text. Pointless laser text. Please make it stop! Avoid Effects

28. The End Questions? Comments?

29. PowerPoint Samples Blue Planet http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lrm22/technology/msoffice/effective_powerpoint/BluePlan.pps Gettysburg Address http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lrm22/technology/msoffice/effective_powerpoint/gettysburg_address.ppt Motivational Posters http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lrm22/technology/msoffice/effective_powerpoint/motivational_posters.pps

30. Selected References The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte The Cognitive Style of PowerPointThe Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward R. Tufte Clear and to the PointClear and to the Point by Stephen Kosslyn Graph Design for the Eye and MindGraph Design for the Eye and Mind by Stephen Kosslyn Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck by Rick Altman Show Me the NumbersShow Me the Numbers by Stephen Few Visualizing DataVisualizing Data by William S. Cleveland Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated ReferenceInformation Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert L. Harris