1. Making PowerPoint Slides
Avoiding Bad Slides

2. What are we learning about?
Lesson Objectives
Presenting Skills
PowerPoint Tips
Questions

3. Presenting Skills Avoid reading the presentation
-The text should be a cue for the presenter
Give a brief overview first
Present the information next
Conclude by reviewing important points

4. Presenting Skills More Look presentable Project your voice
Be energetic, walk around
Make eye contact
Involve your audience

5. PowerPoint Tips Outlines Slide Structure Fonts Color Background
Spelling & Grammar
Conclusions
Questions

6. Outline Make your 2nd slide an outline of your presentation
Ex: previous slide
Only place main points on the outline slide
Ex: Use your main points as the titles of each slide
Follow the order of your outline for the rest of the presentation

7. Slide Structure – Good Show one point at a time
Avoid wordiness: use key words and phrases
Follow the 7 by 7 Rule
Include an idea per slide
Use visuals that represent your points

8. Slide Structure - Bad
This page contains too many words for a presentation slide. It is not written in point form, making it difficult both for your audience to read and for you to present each point. Although there are exactly the same number of points on this slide as the previous slide, it looks much more complicated. In short, your audience will spend too much time trying to read this paragraph instead of listening to you.

9. Fonts - Good Use at least a 24-point font
Use different size fonts for main points and secondary points
this font is 24-point, the main point font is 28-point, and the title font is 36-point
Use a standard font like Times New Roman or Arial

10. Fonts - Bad Don’t use a complicated font
If you use a small font, your audience won’t be able to read what you have written
CAPITALIZE ONLY WHEN NECESSARY. IT IS DIFFICULT TO READ

11. Color - Good
Use a color of font that contrasts sharply with the background
Ex: blue font on white background
Use color to reinforce the logic of your structure
Ex: light blue title and dark blue text
Use color to emphasize a point
But only use this occasionally

12. Color - Bad
A font color that does not contrast with the background color is hard to read
Color for decoration is distracting and annoying
A different color for each point is unnecessary
Trying to be creative can also be bad

13. Background - Good
Use backgrounds such as this one that are attractive but simple
Use backgrounds which are light
Use the same background consistently throughout your presentation

14. Background – Bad
Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or difficult to read from
Avoid distracting animation

15. Spelling and Grammar Proof your slides for: speling mistakes
the use of of repeated words
grammatical errors you might have make

16. Conclusion Avoid ending a presentation abruptly
Use a strong closing summarizing the main points

17. Questions? End your presentation with a question slide
to invite your audience to ask questions
For more tips on PowerPoint go on to
1-Click on the Help and How-To Tab
2-Choose Training for the left side
3-Select Office 2003 or 2007 PowerPoint
4-Take the training courses available online

18. References www.office.microsoft.com www.theteacherscorner.net
Professor Teachers CD, Microsoft 2003
Mavis Beacon Teaches Microsoft Office CD-School Edition, 2005, Riverdeep Interactive Learning
Technology Applications-Level 1, 2004, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Pearson Prentice Hall

19. REFLECTION

20. “Please never settle for less than you can be.”
-- Anthony Robbins