1. Rules for a Good Presentation in Power Point

2. Introduction Purpose Audience Fonts Pictures Content
Animation & Transitions
Backgrounds
Use your
mouse to select
a heading.

3. Purpose Make sure you are clear about what you are trying to present.
Why are you making this presentation?
What will the viewer have learnt from seeing your presentation?

4. Audience Who is your presentation aimed at? Adults Teenagers
Young Children etc.
This is called the Target Audience

5. Fonts Only use two Fonts maximum in your presentations.
Use a Sans Serif font
Try to keep text boxes and headings in the same place on each slide.
Keep the font sizes the same throughout your presentation.

6. Pictures
Only use pictures that are relevant to the information on the slide.
Don’t copy and Paste pictures into the Clip Art Box
Would Clip Art be appropriate for an Adult Audience?

7. Content Don’t put too much information on each slide.
Plan what you are going to include in your presentation before you start by drawing up a storyboard.

8. Animation & Transitions
Don’t animate too much
Don’t use sound effects with your animations.
Stick with one or two animation styles and slide transitions for your whole presentation.

9. Backgrounds
There are various different background styles to choose from...
Solid Colour
Gradients
Textures
Pictures
It can be hard to read type over some picture backgrounds

10. Lord of the Rings
FRODO
Elijah Jordan Wood was born on January 28, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Warren and Debbie Wood. He has an old brother Zack and a younger sister Hannah.

11. I go surfing whenever I can.
I normally surf at Bantham with my friends Jack and Pete.