Effective PowerPoint Presentations

How to avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’

There are 300 millionPowerPoint users

in the world*

* estimate

They do 30 million presentations each day*

* estimate

About a millionpresentations are

going on right now*

* estimate

50% of them areunbearable*

* conservative estimate

LOTS of peopleare killing each otherwith bad presentations.

NOW.

They are all DEAD! Well, almost.

Why are they doing it?!

Research shows:

Bullets don’t kill peoplePeople kill peopleUnintentionallyYet regularly

Mainly due to lack of...

SignificanceStructureSimplicityRehearsal

Significance

Why do you present?

To “pass on information”? Your teacher told you to? Or to make meaning?

What’s the subject and why does it matter to you?

How presentations work...

1. Significance creates passion

2. Passion attracts attention3. Attention leads to action

Are you passionate? Check yourself!

This is passion.

This is passion.

This is not.

Can’t findthe meaning?Don’t present.

Structure

Q: What structure to use?

A: Any – as long as it is:ConvincingMemorable

Stick to three main points

Give 3 reasonssupporting your point.They will not remembermore anyway.

Simplicity

“Everything should be made as

simple as possible but not

simpler.”

Apparently, being simpleis not that simple.I’ll give you some

examples.

Hey, we’ve got a graph!

Goods and Services Tax (Australia) The GST (Goods and Services Tax) is a value added tax of 10% on most goods and

services transactions in Australia. It was introduced by the Howard Government on 1 July 2000, replacing the previous

Federal wholesale sales tax system and designed to phase out a number of various State and Territory Government taxes, duties and levies such as banking taxes and stamp duty.

The idea for a broad-based consumption tax was first proposed by then federal treasurer Paul Keating at the 1985 Tax Summit but was dropped at the behest of then Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke after pressure from the ACTU, welfare groups and business, which did not like its association with proposals for capital gains and fringe benefits taxes.

1990s The idea was refloated in 1991 by the opposition Liberal-National Coalition, and was

the centrepiece of the opposition's Fightback, platform at the 1993 election, when Keating was Prime Minister. The opposition had difficulty explaining the policy, as illustrated in leader John Hewson's Birthday Cake Interview, and Keating's campaign exploited public distrust of the GST. The GST was seen as the main reason for the opposition's surprise election loss of the 'unloseable election' in 1993.

John Howard was re-elected leader of the Liberal party in 1995, and pledged to "never, ever" introduce the GST.[1] Howard led the Liberal-National Coalition to a large victory in the 1996 elections.

Wow! We’ve got information!

This one’s my favourite...

Fundamental problem?

PowerPoint helps to:

Visualize ideasCreate key pointsImpress

People read faster than you speak.

This means you are useless.

How much is an extra slide?

$0.00. Zero Dollars.

Break it into several. It’s free.

What’s the point?

One simple point?

Remove everything else.

Well, some are just hopeless.

Simple design rules:

One point per slideFew matching coloursVery few fontsPhotos, not clipart

Less text.More imagery.Wild imagery.

Inform with little text*

* yes you can

Rehearsal

It will never work completelyfor the first time. Trust me.

No audience? Present to thefurniture. But aloud. Try it.

All this leads to...

Wow*

* great presentations

The

zooming

presentatio

n editor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpLsF5lh98k&feature=related

IT’S YOUR TURN ...

TASK:

Create a 5 slide PowerPoint using the tips you have learned today.

1. Choose from one of the three subjects provided...

The Vampire Myth

The Life of William Shakespeare

Facts about Smoking

2.Upload your PowerPoint to Slideshare.com

3. Use the embed code and share your presentation with the Year 10 Fab Fortnight edmodo group. (Our code is: owfgcn)

NOTE: If you create a prezi, just publish and copy embed code into the ‘link’ address in edmodo.

A couple of PowerPoint rules ...

1. Consistent layout and graphics

2. Less than 15 words per slide

3. Use pictures (not clip-art) as visual cues.

Don’t steal images – use:http://search.creativecommons.org

4. Consistent use of transitions and ‘custom animations’

(No fly-in and out, checkerboards etc)

And remember ...

Less is more...

Source: Alexei Kapterev ‘Death by PowerPoint’(

http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint)