The document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It notes that PowerPoint can help organize lessons and engage visual learners but overuse of text or animations can decrease understanding. Recent research suggests it is not effective to speak the same words shown as it overloads the mind. The document recommends using graphics and text to make points, employing a uniform color theme, and using animations sparingly. It tasks the reader with designing their own PowerPoint presentation based on the guidelines.

1. Creating Effective PowerPoint PresentationsBy Tzvi Pittinsky

2. Advantages of PowerPointHelps organize lesson.Great for visual learners.Useful for textual analysis.Engaging graphics and animations.Interactive when coupled with Smart Board.

3. However, recent research suggests limits to its effectivenessDifficult for brain to process the same written and spoken information simultaneously. Professor John Sweller of University of New South Wales says: "It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented.“ (http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/powerpoint-presentations-a-disaster/2007/04/03/1175366240499.html)

4. PowerPoint Don’ts- By Comedian Don McMillan

5. PowerPoint Don’tsTo summarize:

6. Don’t just read everything that you will say in class directly from the slides or make so many words that the slide is hard to read because the font is so small.

7. Avoid

8. Excessive

9. Bullet