The document provides tips for creating non-boring slideshow presentations. It recommends avoiding bullet points, minimizing flashy effects, keeping text large, centered and concise, and using images and videos when possible to convey information more effectively than walls of text. It also suggests trying to convey a topic using only 5 slides with 5 words or less and 1-5 images per slide as a creative challenge.

1. The Rules!
Creating Slideshows
that aren’t lame!

2. Say NO to bullet points.
• Bullet points are
• lame
• and
• boring.
• People constantly over use them.
• It is even worse when you have to wait
• for a super slow transition
• to bring each bullet point in
• one at a time!
• Just Say NO!

3. Keep the effects to the
minimum!

4. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too

5. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many

6. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes

7. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,

8. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,
and

9. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,
and bangs

10. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,
and bangs are

11. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,
and bangs are
just

12. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,
and bangs are
just distracting

13. Keep the effects to the
minimum!
Too many whizzes ,
and bangs are
just distracting .

14. Make it Large,
Centered and to the
point!
What you have on the screen should only be key points to jog your memory and to
stand you to your audience. No body wants to read large bunches of text on the screen.
Often people are to far away to see it. Reading that large bunch of text out load is silly too
because your audience can read it to themselves faster in their head. But then you are left
there staring a a screen waiting for them to finish reading, but you don’t know when they are
finished, so you wait too long. Then because the room is hot and stuffy your audience goes to
sleep, someone in the back starts to snore and everyone else starts fiddling on their laptops
and tweeting that “this is the lamest presentation ever!”.

15. If you can say it with
a picture or movie
then use it!
Apples
grow on
trees!

16. 5 Try the five slide
challenge!
Make a slideshow about a topic with only five slides.
Have no more than five words on each slide.
Have at least one but no more than
five pictures on each slide.