1. What Not to Do In Your Presentation And Some Good Tips Too!

2. Text People tend to put every word that they are going to say on their powerpoint slide. Although this eliminates the need to memorize your talk, it tends to make your slide crowded, wordy, and boring and you will lose your audience’s attention before you even get to the bottom of your…

3. Text Continued Uhhhh… first slide.

4. Other Common Mistakes Many people do not run spell cheak before delivering the presentation. This is a BIG MISTAK! Nothing makes you look stupider than spelling erers. A red line means you have spelled it wrong!

5. Bullets Avoid Excessive Bulleting Only Bullet Key points Too many Bullet points And Your Key messages Will not Stand Out In fact The term Bullet point Comes from People Pointing Guns At Annoying Presenters

6. Bad Colour Schemes Clashing background and text colours can lead to: Distraction Confusion Headache Vomiting Loss of bladder control

7. Plagiarism Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own original work." [1][2] The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century, while in the previous centuries authors and artists were encouraged to "copy the masters as closely as possible" and avoid "unnecessary invention." [3][4][5][6][7]original work [1][2]immoraloriginalityideal [3][4][5][6][7] The 18th century new morals have been institutionalized and enforced prominently in the sectors of academia and journalism, where plagiarism is now considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, subject to sanctions like expulsion and other severe career damages.academiajournalismacademic dishonestyjournalistic ethicsexpulsion Cutting and pasting and not citing the source is plagiarism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism)

8. Effectiveness vs. Data Not all data is useful!

9. So, Do you add more detail to the slide?

10. Animation vs. Effectiveness Effective Boring Active but confusing Completely useless Boring and Dull The Dull Smiley The Dizzy Arrow Lame and confusing Useful but amusing Active intellective ADD Only Simple but effective region The Upside Down Triangle of Shame The Hyper Star Pointless Motion

11. So, What Do You Do? Keep points brief Keep slides clean Use only relevant pics Use only relevant data SPELL CHECK!

12. When Possible… Add Relevant Multimedia clips Keep in mind that many links are blocked! Though not necessary, use a template

13. Adding a Movie Downloading RealPlayer will allow you to save YouTube Movies! This is a good idea.

14. Always Finish with a bibliography Sometimes this needs to be formal At the very least show your sources!

15. Bibliography www.technicallyfunny.com www.flickr.com www.giovannispina.net