Creating more Powerful PowerPoint Presentations

Putting Together

More Powerful

PowerPointPresentations!Courtney Mlinar Fall 2008

Don’t focus on

Technology

Focus on

Learning

Wired Generation:

Constantly Connected

Left brain + right brain

Visual +

Verbal

Title = Headline

Main Idea

Tell a Story

Avoid Overload

Example:Teeny-Weeny Text All Over the Slide!

• An essential component of facilitating learning is understanding learners.

• Learning styles, attitudes, approaches of your audience vary greatly.

• Take these differences into account when designing courses or presentations.

• Doing is more important than knowing.• Find new ways to meet student’s needs for

service, immediacy, interactivity.• Balance the entertainment interests of your

audience with their educational needs.

Understand Learning:

•Style

Understand Learning:

•Style

•Attitude

Understand Learning

•Style

•Attitude

•Approach

Audience Needs:

•Service

•Immediacy

•Interactivity

Bite-sized Pieces

Too Big of a Bite =

too much information

(Move Text Off-Screen)

Narrate

Text Alone

Is

Not

Sufficient

All the time!

Use Words

And

Pictures

Or

Use

Pictures

Alone:

Or

Use

Text

As

Pictures:

Who am I?

Over 21

Under 65

What I Like:

Remove

Everything

That does not support

The

Message

Use Contrast:

Text:

•Specific

•Simple

•Easy to Read

Voice

•Active

•Informal

•First Person

Bullets

•Easy to Read

•Emphasize Points

•Concise List

Break Text into Multiple Pages

Choose Font that Speaks:

ArialGoudy Stout

chick

At Least 32-point type size

Palatino

Less is More

Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying! Don’t use a lengthy transcript of what you are saying!

Remember your audience:

Special

Pressured

Sheltered

Informal

Curious

Appreciate you