PowerPoint Tips

Center for Teaching and Learning

Objectives

• The three “I”s• Interest• Inform• Impress

Interest

Significance Interest

• Why does it matter?• One main idea

• What they remember• 3 - 4 points

Inform

• Structure• Design

Inform

• Structure• Intro, argument, conclusion• Problem, solution, reasoning• Narrative, story

Inform

• Design

Look at Me!Look at Me!

Look at Me!

Stop reading it

Too many words

Design Inform

Design Inform

Inform

• Design• Simple• Don’t compete with yourself!

Impress

Rehearse Impress

Rehearse Impress

Rehearse Impress

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Questions?

Help

• CTL Dr Is In: M-F 10-3• SURF/SRC websites:

• http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmsurf• http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmsrc/