The document provides a summary of common PowerPoint mistakes and tips for improving presentations. It includes multiple links to articles and videos about using storytelling techniques, avoiding pitfalls like excessive text, and designing engaging slides. The key message is that an effective PowerPoint tells a story and focuses on visuals rather than just text. Storytelling and exploiting technology can make presentations more interesting and impactful for audiences.

1. A PowerPoint about PowerPoint!
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2. We have all heard this claim being made before!

4. You can have a great PowerPoint by avoiding its common pitfalls which are presented on these links:
I was shocked about the mistakes of PowerPoint that are presented in this article.
• http://www.afrc.uamont.edu/whited/You-suck-at-power-point.pdf
This video talks about how effective good presentations can be.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjcO2ExtHso
This presentation tells us to burn all our PowerPoint presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/brainslides/burn-your-powerpoints
This article focuses on the 12 most fatal common powerpoint
errors.
• http://www.fripp.com/blog/12-mistakes-made-when-creating-
powerpoint-slides-and-how-to-correct-them/
This presentation talks about we should do and what to avoid
in PowePoint.
• http://www.slideshare.net/ethos3/text-me-dos-donts-of-
presentation-design
• https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Combining-
Colors-in-PowerPoint-%E2%80%93-Mistakes-to-Avoid-
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5. Here are some things we could do to make our PowerPoints better
This article teaches us how to design our
presentation so that it doesn’t suck.
• http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/10-tips-
for-designing-presentations-that-dont-suck-pt-
1/
This link offers tips that render the presentation
more interesting.
• http://www.wikihow.com/Make-PowerPoint-
Presentations-More-Interesting
This link offered 8 tips on creating an engaging
PowerPoint.
• https://blog.udemy.com/best-powerpoint-
presentations/
This article talks about things we can give to our
powerpoint presentation.
• http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-
office/10-things-you-can-do-to-give-your-
powerpoint-presentations-a-heartbeat/

6. Is the most important
thing in PowerPoint
Always remember

7. I found those links very effective in talking about the importance of storytelling in power points:
http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/articles/make-your-presentation-flow-like-a-story/
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
http://www.lauramfoley.com/wordpress/how-do-you-tell-a-story-in-powerpoint/
I also found these links very interesting in talking about how we can exploit technology for storytelling
purposes.
http://www.slideshare.net/biscioneassociati/an-example-of-effective-powerpoint-presentation-4613960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkZtRzc9rFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nYFpuc2Umk
http://publicwords.com/how-do-you-take-an-ordinary-presentation-and-turn-it-into-a-powerful-story/