Building PowerPoint Presentations

How to Make an Oral PresentationOne of lifes most stressful experiencesFive StrategiesBe Prepared.Act with Confidence.Structure Your Presentation.Practice Your Presentation.Create a Good Final Impression.

Strategies1. Be Prepared.Organize your notes.Keep your notes in order.Use your energy.Build yourself up.Carry yourself like royalty.Strategies2. Act with Confidence.Take your time.Take command and greet audience.Slow down and speak up.Strategies3. Structure your Presentation.Limit your topic.State your thesis and preview your key points.Use transitions.Conclude by reviewing.Strategies4. Practice your Presentation.Practice aloud.Practice in front of a mirror.Practice working with your material.Use an outline.Try notecards.Strategies5. Create a Good Final Impression.Smile.Thank the audience.Ask for questions.Building PowerPoint Presentations

TipsInclude limited content on each slide.Fill in details orally.Use slide show to augment presentation.Use graphics where appropriate.End each show with a closing slide.

ExamplesTitle SlideOutline SlideContent Slide1.Title SlideMake your title simple , yet descriptive of the content

1. Title Slide: ExampleThe Exploration of Natural Beauty in Three Poems by John KeatsBy R. Cooper

2. Outline SlideUse numbers or bullets.Point form is best.Give audience a sense of structure.

2. Outline Slide: ExampleKeats and Natural Beauty The sensuality of Keatss poems Keatss poetry and beauty Keatss poetry and truth3.Content Slide Use minimum writing.Help with structureInteresting graphic materialCharts and graphs as needed Leave white space. Place material artistically on slide.

3. Content Slide: Example THOU still unravishd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

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