Who?
Where?
What made
it great?

Ian Jukes

David Warlick

 Steve Jobs
 Dick Hardt

Based on the article Avoiding Seven Deadly Multimedia Design
and Presentation Sins by Thomas H. Cunningham.

Letter fonts are too ornate

 There are too many different fonts
 There are too many DIFFERENT font styles
 And there are too many different font
colors

Avoid the temptation to use fancy fonts

Choose one that is easy to read!

Limit to one or two letter fonts

 Limit to one or two letter styles
 Limit to one or two letter colors

Be Consistent!

If you must use an ornate font, use it

with only a few words
 Use ornate fonts correctly
OLD ENGLISH
Old English

Font sizes and/or graphics are too small


Font sizes and/or graphics are too small


Font sizes and/or graphics are too small
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Image Source: Flickr User InSectHunter

Font sizes and/or graphics are too small

Image Source: Flickr User InSectHunter

Do not rely on default font sizes

 Sometimes they will be too small for people
in a large room to read
 Think of the people in the back row
Try the 10-foot rule


Too Busy!

The background and text color
combinations do not have
enough contrast for legibility.

Make sure that designs and colors in the

background don’t conflict with the text
 Avoid the color red for text

Never crowd too much information onto

a single screen.
 Doing so distracts the participant’s
attention and forces them to really
concentrate in order to merely
understand your presentation. It’s best
to focus the items in your presentation
to only include important points.

Image Source: Funnyhub.com

K.I.S.S.

Usually less is more!

 Keep screens simple and clear
 Do not crowd text
 Give more information as you speak than is
presented on your slides

Follow the eight-by-eight rule of thumb

Generally:

 No more than eight words per line
 No more than eight lines of text per screen

Use key words

Use contrast

Not leaving a screen up long enough for

participants to take notes
 Leaving a screen unchanged for too long

If you will not refer to onscreen

information for a while, insert a blank
slide
 Use the handout feature so participants
don’t have to take copious notes

Build suspension by progressively
revealing information

Overusing special effects

Overusing special effects

 Overusing special effects
 Overusing special effects
 Overusing special effects
 Overusing special effects
 Overusing special effects
 Overusing special effects

Be consistent in the use of special

effects (flying text, dissolving, etc.)
 Avoid “eye candy” except to add
emphasis

What’s more important:
Your message or your special effects?

Presentation is all text, no pictures

Using only text can be a real drag.

Today’s audience demands a more visual
presentation. They want to be
entertained while you are teaching
them. That’s just the way it is.

Don’t forget
Use pictures,
that you’re
charts,
working with
graphs, and
a visual
cartoons!
media!

Color Wheel
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Photos!

Google Images:

http://images.google.com/
Flickr Storm:

http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

Photos!

Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/
Creative Commons:

http://www.creativecommon.org/

File Conversion:

http://www.zamzar.com/
Sharing Presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/

T4 Website:

http://t4.jordandistrict.org/powerpoint
Darren Draper

 http://t4.jordandistrict.org/
 801-567-8774
 darren.draper@jordan.k12.ut.us