The document provides tips and guidelines for creating and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations. It discusses: - Grouping criteria for a good presentation and having groups select the most important ones. - When and why to use PowerPoint as a visual support tool that can activate audiences and provide additional information. - Tips for structuring presentations with introductions, content, and conclusions. - Best practices for style and design of PowerPoint slides including limiting text, using variations, animations, fonts, and other visual elements to maintain audience attention.

1. Content session
• Introduction to the assignment
Angelique van het Kaar
Gerard Baars • Group work
Maartje van Eerd
RMT 2012
• Group presentations
• Short film on do’s and don’ts of powerpoint
Presentation Techniques • Tips for powerpoint
Assignment
• What are according to you criteria for a “good”
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presentation?
– Individual (10 minutes)
– In groups of 5: select the 7 most important
criteria (30 minutes)
– Plenary reflection
Why to use PowerPoint? Structure presentation
• Introduction
• Visual support tool
– gaining attention
• Activating audience during presentation – outline
• Offering audience additional information: • Content
pictures, audio, video – present your research
• Variation, maintaining attention • background
• research question(s)
• methods
• etc
• End
– summary and conclusion(s)
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2. Tips for using PowerPoint (1) Tips for using PowerPoint (2)
• Do not use abbreviations • First slide:
• Do not give too much information – title presentation
– name (and department presenter)
• Maintain attention by offering variation:
– verbal and visual information – date
– use pictures, diagrams, etc. • Next slide:
– structure presentation
• Last slide:
– summary and conclusions
Presenting with PowerPoint Style of the slide (1)
• Do not read the text from your slides • Not too much information on a slide
• Keep eye contact with the audience • One subject per slide
• Build in rest moments; present new slide, give • 5/6 words for each rule; 7/8 rules per slides
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audience time to look at the slide • Not whole sentences – key words
• Use the pointer • Distinctive colors for different types of information (e.g.
• After your presentation, use the B-button to empty principles in black text and examples in blue letters)
the screen
Style of the slide (2) Style of slides: Animations
• Limit the number of data you present
• One design for your entire presentation • Moving slides, pictures or letters
• Not too many slides (one slide per 2 to 3 minutes) • Keep animations simple
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• Do not make your presentation too long • One type of transition
(maximum of 20 minutes) – for going from one slide to the other
– for going from one point to the other
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3. Style of slide: Font (1) Style of the slide: Font (2)
• Use a maximum of 2 fonts • Font size is minimum of 22
• Use one of these fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Comic p
• For example:
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D not use TiTimes New Roman or Courier
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– title on first slide 44 - bold
• Bold is better than Underlined
– titles on other slides 36 - bold
• Sufficient contrast, because of loss of quality during
presentation – subtitles 28 - bold
– text 28 of 24
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