The document provides tips for effective PowerPoint presentations. It advises against text-heavy slides, recommending the use of relevant graphics and images to tell the story and hold audience attention. Examples are given of how images of Emile Durkheim look interested when focused on but bored when the focus is lost. The document stresses using only images that help convey the message rather than random clip art.

1. EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS
WITH POWERPOINT

2. Text-Heavy Slides
 Assimilation:
A term synonymous with acculturation, used
to describe the process by which an outsider,
immigrant, or subordinate group becomes
indistinguishably integrated into the
dominant host society.
 (Dictionary of Sociology, Scott and Marshall,
Oxford University Press, 2009)

3. Text-Heavy Slides
 Assimilation:
A term synonymous with acculturation, used
to describe the process by which an outsider,
immigrant, or subordinate group becomes
indistinguishably integrated into the
dominant host society.
 (Dictionary of Sociology, Scott and Marshall, Oxford
University Press, 2009)

4. Using Graphics
 Use only relevant images
 Avoid random clip art!
 Use pictures which help
you tell the story.
 The FocusTrick
 See how interested Emile
Durkheim looks?

5. Using Graphics
 Use only relevant images
 Avoid random clip art!
 Use pictures which help
you tell the story.
 The FocusTrick
 See how bored he looks
now?