This document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations that engage audiences rather than bore them. It recommends starting with a storyboard that follows a beginning, middle, and end, and then structuring the presentation template using a 3x3x3 grid for details, explanations, and key points. The presentation should tell a story using graphics to illustrate each slide's message, with narrative text added in Notes View. Royalty-free photos from sites like Wikimedia Commons can be used to reinforce the slides. The goal is for the audience to see and listen rather than just hear endless text on slides.

1. relearning to use PowerPoint – Don’t bore your audience to death!

2. Remember the last Powerpoint presentation you sat through?

3. How do you want people to remember YOUR Powerpoint presentation?

4. We have all been told to use graphics to make more effective PowerPoint presentations

5. We end up using clip art "eye candy"

6. “ Presentations are not about telling, telling, telling, and telling some more”

7. It has been a constant struggle to decide how to structure a presentation

8. Start the presentation design with a design template, not PowerPoint

9. A storyboard needs a Beginning, a middle & an end!

10. Set up the story first

11. Continue the design using the 3 x 3 x 3 template 3 2 1 3 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 3 3 2 1 3 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 Details Explanations Key Points

12. Now implement the design in PowerPoint

13. The sentence from each cell will become a slide title

14. In the "Notes View," write the narrative for each slide

15. Finally, add graphics to illustrate or reinforce the slide's message

16. Achieving results requires new resources

17. These sites offer royalty-free photos http://commons. wikimedia .org/ wiki /Main_Page … and MANY others

18. Recommendation Recap Just say “No!” to PowerPoint slides filled with text Allow your audience to “see” your slides and “listen” to your presentation Use your presentation to tell a story The 3 x 3 x 3 structure enhances your audience’s receptivity to your message During the creative process, remember the audience – entertain them!     