PowerPoint with Flavor

PowerPoint with Flavor Ellyssa Kroski

How to Spice Up Your Presentations
14 Presentation Best Practices
Tips to Optimize PowerPoint
Alternatives to PowerPoint
Resources

Best Practices

#1 People Can Read

#2 Stories, not…

#3 Don’t Start with History

#4 Don’t Use Illegible Fonts

#5 Transitions Can be Irritating

#6 Limit Text

#7 Use Quality Images

#8 Provide an Agenda

#9 Keep the Lights On

#10 Mix it Up with Video http://tinyurl.com/2r7p2r

#11 Use Color for Emphasis

#12 Practice!!!!

#13 You don’t have to be Steve Jobs

#14 Don’t Go Overboard

PowerPoint Tips

Slide Sorter

Slide Master

Shapes

Custom Animations

Record Narration

Presentation Software
Web-based Presentation Apps
http://mashable.com/2008/02/16/forget-powerpoint-online-presentations
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org
Slideshare
http:// www.slideshare.net
Social
Upload to Facebook & other networks
Blog Sidebar

Wikis
PBWiki
http:// pbwiki.com
WetPaint Wiki
http://www.wetpaint.com
Video
Common Craft “In Plain English”
http:// www.commoncraft.com
Screencasting Applications
http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials

Resources
Images
Flickr’s Creative Commons Search
http://flickr.com/creativecommons
Free/Low-Cost Stock Photo List
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/where_can_you_f.html
Web/Technology Comics
http://blaugh.com
Image Generators
http://txt2pic.com
http://www.comicstripgenerator.com
http://generatorblog.blogspot.com
http:// www.customsigngenerator.com

Resources

Resources
Toastmasters International
http://www.toastmasters.org
Public Speaking Practice
Non-Profit organization
11,500 clubs in 92 countries
226,000 members
Weekly Meetings

Resources
The Experts
Presentation Zen
http://www.presentationzen.com
Guy Kawasaki
http://blog.guykawasaki.com
Seth Godin
http://sethgodin.typepad.com
Masayoshi Takahashi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Takahashi_method
Lawrence Lessig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig#Lessig_Method
Steve Jobs
http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Resources
Good PowerPoint Examples
Meet Henry
http://www.slideshare.net/chereemoore/meet-henry
Death by PowerPoint
http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint
Shift Happens
http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834

Ellyssa Kroski
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Blogs:
iLibrarian
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian
InfoTangle
http://infotangle.blogsome.com
http:// www.slideshare.net/ellyssa

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PowerPoint with Flavor

by Ellyssa Kroski on Apr 16, 2008

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