Presentation Making Guidelines

Presentation Making Guidelines Key Points of Making Presentations
Doncho Minkov
Telerik Corporation
www.telerik.com
Technical Trainer

Table of Contents
Clearing the Idea
Collecting the Information
Getting Started
Formatting the Content
Styling of the Content
Using PPT Templates
Decorations
Tips and Tricks
Summary

Clearing the Idea What to Include? What to Exclude?

Use mind mappings
Draw a circle
Clearing the Idea

Use mind mappings
Draw a circle
Write the topic
Clearing the Idea Topic

Use mind mappings
Draw a circle
Write the topic
Make more circles
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Use mind mappings
Draw a circle
Write the topic
Make more circles
Connect with the first
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Use mind mappings
Draw a circle
Write the topic
Make more circles
Select the most important circles
Clearing the Idea Topic Smth Smth Smth Smth

Use mind mappings
Draw a circle
Write the topic
Make more circles
Select the most important circles
Remove the rest
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Presentation making Before Collect Mind mapping Research Clear the Idea Making Styling Arranging

Clearing the Idea (2)
At the end you should have something like a Table of Contents
Or at least a blueprint, something to begin with
Mind mapping software
FreeMind
iMindMap
Etc…

While Clearing the Idea
Know your audience!
Remember the complexity How detailed should it be?

Collecting the Information How to do it? Blogs Books Google Colleagues

Collecting the Information Live Demo

Getting Started

Getting Started What we have so far?
Table of Contents ( mind map )
Bunch of materials

Getting Started
You should make sure that your presentations are well structured, organized and consistent
Not a random list of bullet points with no logical order

Formatting the Content How to Format the Information?

Key Principles
Key principles of presentation creation
Keep the sentences short Keep the text on slide small Use high contrast colors Use as large fonts as possible

Example of Bad Presentation
Hello! My name is Doncho Minkov and today we will talk about HTML Fundamentals. We will see the basics of the H yper- T ext- M arkup L anguage and will explain what is a tag in HTML, the parts of a HTML document, and some of the tags….
<a> this is the tag 'a'. 'a' comes from anchor and this tag is used for redirecting from one HTML document to another… bla bla bla

Content Formatting Avoid " all words slides " Keep lines up to 7 (+/-2) for a slide Limit the bullet points to 4-8 Make text into bullet points Words

Content Formatting (2)
When too much text on a slide
The audience starts reading and not listening The audience could fall asleep Less flexible for the speaker

Arranging the Content
Example of a bad slide
This could be split into at least four bullet points (4 sentences) The title is not fully corresponding with the content

Arranging the Content
Can be easily transformed in two slides

Styling of the Content What Background, Font and Colors to Use?

Use contrast background and foreground ! Dark background and light foreground? Light background and dark foreground? or

Example of a Badly Selected Background and Colors
Can anything be seen?
Hardly
Image if the sun is lighting the screen
This looks much better!
But generally this background is too fancy

Font Contrast to the background Consistent Large Use common font faces Gives impression of professionalism

Example of a Badly Selected Font
What if I choose such a Font?
Does it look Good?
Does it look good?
Does it look good?
Does it look good?
Does it look good?
Does it look good?
No it doesn't!

Avoid Fancy Colors!
Sample text with different colors
This is an example how not to use colors
Sample text with non contrast colors

Using PPT Templates Build-In and Professional Templates

What is a PTT Template?
This is a ready template for your presentations
Defined font colors and faces
Defined places for the titles, contents, etc.
Defined background
Etc.
Sometimes it is a good idea to use templates
Not all ready templates are good
Spares you thinking of the right color
They are made by designers

PowerPoint Templates
There are some built-in templates
But can also be downloaded from the web
Examples of free PPT templates:
http://www.presentationpoint.com/powerpoint-templates /
http://www.templateswise.com /

Styling the Content Live Demo

Decorations It is Almost Over

What to decorate ?
Title slides
Contents slides
In all empty places of the presentation

Final Touches (2)
The pictures/images should not be random
This only makes the presentation more distracting
The pictures should be connected with the subject
i.e. if the title is " C# OOP "
Good picture is Bad picture is

Tips and Tricks Media, Animations

Animations? Very pretty So Shiny ! But Harmful Or may be… Takes time to make

Summary
Clearing the Idea
Getting Started
Formatting the Content
Styling of the Content
Using PPT Templates
Decorations
Tips and Tricks
Summary

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