How to prepare a PowePoint Presentation for Class. The Do's and Dont's of a PowerPoint Presentation. Step by step guide for preparing powerpoint presentations

1. DO’s and DONT’s

2. Microsoft PowerPoint is a commercial
presentation program developed by
Microsoft. It was officially launched on
May 22, 1990 as a part of the Microsoft
Office suite, and runs on operating
system.

3. It was developed by Dennis Austin and
Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc.
Initially it was called “Presenter”
In 1987 it was renamed to PowerPoint
due to problems with trademark
It was bought by Microsoft for
$14 million

4.  To increase the effectiveness of the
teaching
 To hold the attention span of the
learner for the duration of instruction
 To save time directing the topics of
class

5. Visual perception contributes to about
90% to all human learning.
Maximum attention span of an adult
learner is 20 min.

7.  Practice with equipment
 Slides should be concurrent with
verbal content
 Pause to allow audience to redirect
attention
 Use verbal cues for next slide
 Talk to audience/don’t read slides
 Explain graphics

8. Total number of slides = 1/2 number of
minutes in presentation
One topic per slide
3-7 bullets per slide
Key words
32 point for text / 40 point for
headings

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1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
East
West
North
*this font is way too small
*don’t try to put too much on one
slide
*This label is too small to read
*can you even tell which color is
which on the bar graph? I can’t
because they are too similar.

10. Use “special effects” sparingly
They rarely add anything to the
presentation
And can be extremely annoying and
distracting!

11. funky fonts are distracting and
hard to read
this font looks small
this font looks perfect (Arial)
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12. too small is hard to see, and this is smaller that the
minimum resolvable acuity for most of the audience
*Should not be beyond
minimum resolvable acuity
*make big enough to see
easily

13. *titles - 40 to 72pt
*text - 28 to 40 pt
*NEVER smaller than 28 pt

14. ALL CAPS IS NOT VERY READABLE FOR
LONG PASSAGES; AVOID THIS EXCEPT
FOR SHORT TITLES AND ABBREVIATIONS
Sentence case is much more readable!

15. This passage is more difficult for you
to read because it is centered,
instead of left justified.
Don’t do this.
This passage is left justified and easier
for you to read.
Do this.

16. *
chromatic aberration of the eye
causes different colors in the slide
to appear to be at different depths;
and makes it hard to read
Don’t do this!

17. Avoid this.
This section has lower contrast
than what comes next and is
harder to read
Do this.
White on black is easy to see.
That’s why it is used in low vision apps.

18. *Busy backgrounds are distracting
All the stuff distracts you
from my message and the
picture
*you are having trouble
seeing this
*keep it simple

19. *not distracting
*text easier to read

20. “Death By PowerPoint”
*Is a criticism of slide-based presentations
referring to a state of boredom and fatigue
induced by information overload during a
presentation.
The phrase was first coined by Angela R.
Garber.

22. *
Complex images like this;

23. *
;can be explained like this.

24. *
Images like this can be explained easily.

25. Image looks like
this in text
books…

26. Roots
C6
C7
C8
T1
C5
Middle
Inferior
 Trunk
Superior
Trunk
Same image presented in a PowerPoint

27. *
*Imagine the heart to be like a hose with a one-
way valve in it.

28. *
a small hole a large hole
If a heart murmur sounds softer may
indicate that the hole is larger.
Insert Audio where Needed

29. Thank You