Presentations with Powerpoint

What’s wrong with this slide?

•Can you read this?

•Our my ideas clear?

•Don’t I have great bullet points?

What’s wrong with this slide?

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What’s wrong with this slide?

•Can you read this?

•Are my ideas clear?

•Don’t I have great bullet points?

What’s wrong with this slide?

•Can you read this?

•Are my ideas clear?

•Don’t I have great bullet points?

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Providing legible text

• 36-point font

• Sans-serif font (e.g. Arial)

• Bold face

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FFPlain Bold

Hint: Check out your fonts on the presentation computer before your talk.

Same as DOE

Limit number of fonts

A good Powerpoint slide

Should not use more than two fonts

Using multiple fonts

Is confusing to the eye

And does not look professional

Use Spell Checker and Proofread

Having lats of typogaphical errers tends to make you loose credability.

Proofread two check four any errors the spell checker does not catch.

Text pointers

FontsUse no more than two

Use a sans serif font

For emphasisUse larger size

Use contrasting color

Not: Multicolor text (it’s hard to read)

Avoid using all capital letters

USING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS MAKES YOUR TEXT HARDER TO READ BECAUSE WE USE THE SHAPE OF WORDS TO RECOGNIZE THEM.

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What’s wrong with this picture?

Isolation adds emphasis

Reading bullet points

• It is really not a good idea

• To read your bullet points aloud

• To your audience

• They can see them

• They will get bored

Screen shots

Shift + Print Screen Ctrl + V

Animation

search terms

Beware of Clip Art

Foreclosure rate in Fargo

January

25

February

35

March

45

April

55

What we will cover today

• Defining our term• Interesting things about our topic• Audience participation event• More interesting things about our

topic• Conclusions• Additional sources

Defining our term

“Thingamajig” is an ancient concept that has been updated in the computer era…

Questions?

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