This document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It recommends preparing well in advance, purging unnecessary content, and focusing images using the rule of thirds composition technique. Key tips include having one clear idea per slide, using color to support the message, choosing images over templates, using sans serif fonts, limiting bullets to one line of text, and practicing with the presentation equipment. It also lists some PowerPoint alternative tools.

1. Avoiding
PowerPoint(lessness)
Creating Effective PowerPoint
Presentations

2. Plan
Purge
Preparation is Key

3. Presentation vs. Documentation

4. Crop Images to Create Focus

5. The Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds is a compositional rule
of thumb in photography and other
visual arts such as painting and design.
The rule states that an image can be
divided into nine equal parts by two
equally-spaced horizontal lines and two
equally-spaced vertical lines.
The four points formed by the
intersections of these lines can be used
to align features in the photograph.

6. OR

7. Rule of Thirds

8. The Audience Can Read

9. Idea per Slide

10. Support Message with Color

11. What does the color
White
mean to you?

12. Pure
Health
Perfection
Safety
High tech, Scientific
Simple
Clean

13. What does the color
What Does Red Say to You?
Red
mean to you?

14. Energy
Passionate
Powerful
Determination
Emotionally Intense
Emergency

15. What does the color
Blue
mean to you?

16. Knowledge
Power
Integrity
Seriousness
Contrast

17. Pick Images over Templates

18. Use San Serif
Arial
Avoid Serif
Times
Helvetica
Typewriter
Verdana
Lucida
Calibri
Baskerville

19. 1. C.R.A.P
2. Master slide
3. Subtle transitions
4. Blank Slide or “B”key
5. If bullets: 1 line of text
6. 30 point font minimum
7. Practice with equipment
8. 10 Slides - 20 Minutes - 30 Font Size

20. PowerPoint Alternatives
Prezi and Prezi examples
Slideshare
5 Presentation Alternatives
PowToon
SlideRocket
Beyond PowerPoint:
Emerging Technologies