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Creating Stunning Presentations
The document provides guidelines for creating effective presentations, emphasizing the importance of knowing your audience, choosing appropriate colors and fonts, and ensuring readability of text. It discusses various elements like text size, background appropriateness, and avoiding overwhelming slides with bullet points. The focus is on enhancing audience engagement while maintaining clarity and professionalism in presentation design.
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- 1. Creating Stunning Presentations Evans Library FloridaInstitute of Technology
- 2. FIRST STEPS: PREPARING, ORGANIZING, AND CREATING Image:W.A. Pixley, 1905
- 3. WHO’S YOUR AUDIENCE? ”Audience photograph of a 'Liedertafel smoke concert' held in the Exhibition Concert Hall, Bowen Hills, 1901
- 4. Image: NASA, 1958Image: Eils Lotozo, 2013 Professional? Casual? Classroom? Boardroom?
- 5. Gather your content Revisionnotes by Jennie licensed by CC BY-SA 2.0
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- 7. Captions have aplace Table 1: I’m a table caption, and I go above the table. Squirrels Raccoons Students Monday 50 75 50 Tuesday 47 60 72 Wednesday 50 61 81 Thursday 25 200 250 Friday 10 150 85 Figure 1: I’m a figure caption, and I go below the figure.
- 8. Intro/Methods/Results/ Conclusion/Other Topic • Formost people, a slide looks something like this Image: NASA, 1998
- 9. COLORS AND FONTSAND PICTURES, OH MY!
- 10. High contrast for highvisibility
- 11. Purple and Yellow Purpleand White
- 12. Blue and Yellow Blueand White
- 13. Beige and Blue Beigeand Purple
- 14. Using Adobe Color CCto create a theme
- 15. Our Seattle PhotoTheme
- 17. Title Text • ACCENTCOLOR dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. • Duis ac odio nec ACCENT COLOR. • Curabitur et risus ornare, vehicula ipsum vel, maximus metus.
- 18. Not all colorcombinations are equal
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- 20. Some just can’tbe seen
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- 23. How can weuse bold colors (without blinding our audience)?
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- 27. Font and textsize
- 28. Serif vs. SansSerif
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- 30. Use serif fontson long blocks of text Use sans serif fonts in presentations, digital media, and signage
- 31. Titles = 44pt Subtitles= 28 – 34pt • Bullet points = minimum of 24pt
- 32. Titles = 72pt Subtitle= 54pt • Bullet/text = 36pt
- 33. HOW BIG SHOULDYOUR TEXT BE? Your text should be big enough to read. And definitely bigger than this.
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- 37. Backgrounds and fonts shouldbe appropriate and professional
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- 39. Where size, color,and readability collide • Be mindful of text size and lighting conditions. • Sometimes you do want your audience to pay attention to your slides, especially when you’re describing figures, data, or definitions. • But, most of the time, you don’t want your audience reading your slides. • They’ll be so busy reading your slides that they won’t hear any of your witty, intelligent remarks. • I mean, do you like reading slides like this? • An entire presentation of bullet points? • Don’t subject your audience to that.
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- 41. Pictures are great! Butis your text readable? Image: Richardson, 2014
- 42. Now my textis readable, huzzah! Image: Richardson, 2014
- 43. Image: RTG, 2009 Resolutionmatters!
- 46. BAD PRESENTATIONS DON’T JUSTHAPPEN IN POWERPOINT
- 49. ….can stop badpresentations from happening. Image: US Forestry Service
Editor's Notes
- #2 We could easily spend 3 hours here talking about presentations: we could talk about avoiding text, about creating graphics, proper image placement and use…but we don’t have 3 hours, we have 30 minutes. So, instead, I’m going to start with the foundation of the presentation (your information) and then move on to some very simple color theory, text use, and font choices. We’ll also talk about images and where to find them, as well as two other presentation options besides powerpoint.
- #3 Before we can get into the part where we make your presentation look nice, we need to talk about the foundation: the information you’re presenting, and how you’re presenting it.
- #4 Before we begin thinking about our content, we should begin by thinking about our audience.
- #5 http://blogs.haverford.edu/haverblog/2013/12/12/being-a-haverford-house-fellow/ Contrary to what you’re probably thinking, the first thing you should consider is your audience. What do they know? What do they need to know? Are you presenting to peers? Advisors? Consider the atmosphere and level of understanding in the room. When a knowledge gap is present, try to view your presentation as a teaching moment. This will help you frame your content in a context that everyone in your audience can understand.
- #6 Start thinking about the material that you need or want to present. If you’re presenting a paper, then most of this has already been done, and your presentation will be a summary of your paper. Make sure you’re summarizing your paper, or report if it’s already written. You’re not writing another report within your presentation. If you’re having trouble doing this, take a look at the background information in your abstract.
- #7 CITE YOU SOURCES.
- #8 Caption your figures and tables, and do it correctly. This is one time when your audience should be reading the screen- make your captions descriptive, and make sure your graphics are easy to decipher.
- #15 https://www.flickr.com/photos/howardignatius/14482954049/in/photolist-o4NVEi-nZ4Mz1-pMxvVE-7a4pD6-bswFsW-6LGnkF-9jDnj4-7zJ9iK-95Biox-pAQnxB-eJ5iVg-5Nn5Ee-4caQa7-PTkve-b8qK7Z-6ejxT9-at8LCN-9awFWs-671jDx-j83rLn-4CwJUj-fwiPSo-ezd6AS-dNFUB9-o1MYeA-epBQag-nyELzi-e6Qi7p-pkYGnE-fW1tpt-ohFoBP-gb6P9T-5EXqHD-5h91Aj-CXT6qK-7Ev3tz-xs8Usi-8oJ1ja-hRnTaB-BojxgP-6sRphm-6iBTnT-8V6FZT-9R4BFX-aL5eDa-asfqb1-ajGS66-7h1aPK-pjQHGB-9KydP3
- #21 Use bright and bold colors carefully. Limit them to accents, and avoid using colors like red, yellow, and orange as backgrounds.
- #24 Use bright and bold colors carefully. Limit them to accents, and avoid using colors like red, yellow, and orange as backgrounds. Do you really want to stare at this color for the next 15 minutes?
- #25 Using a bright, bold color in a gradient lets you keep the color, but doesn’t hurt your audience’s eyes.
- #40 The rule of 4 by 5: four bullet points with five words each. The rule of 33: no more than 33 words per slide.
- #41 This is why powerpoint gets such a bad rap: too many words. Sometimes you’ll need to include a lot of text. If your rubric requires that you explicitly detail your entire methodology, DO THAT! It’s ok! Do what the assignment asks! But, if you can avoid it, don’t put your entire script onto your slides. It’s ok to have notes, or note cards, but your slides should not be your crutch. They should not be your script. You shouldn’t need to look at the screen every few seconds to see what you should say next. You need to find a good balance between text, speaking, and images. Viewers shouldn’t feel like they have to take time to read your slides in order to understand your presentation.
- #44 Don’t use low quality photos.
- #46 Don’t overuse animations, and don’t use word art. If it looks cheesy, it is.
- #50 If you Google “bad presentation examples,” you will literally find thousands of bad examples, so much more than what I could cover here. Cheesy, bad, terrible, presentations.