Tips for PowerPoint Presentations

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Tips for PowerPoint Presentations

• June 12, 2007

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations

• The Introduction
• Get the audiences attention
• Tell why you are demonstrating
• Say why and the audience should listen

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations

• The Body
• Show logical order
• Combine talking and doing
• Show step by step procedures

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations

• The Summary
• Dont read through your posters/slides step by
  step
• Select 3-4 important facts
• Give hand outs if appropriate
• State your sources
• I got my information from

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations

• Questions
• Are there any questions?
• The question has been asked
• Questions you cant answer
• If there are no further questions, this
  concludes my demonstration. Thank you.

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations

• Organize Your Work Space
• Keep your area clean
• Keep demonstration area free of clutter
• Be familiar with your equipment

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations

• Posters Visual Aids
• Neat
• Sturdy
• Eye Catching
• Simple
• Readable
• Colorful, but not gaudy

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Helpful Hints for Demonstrations
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• PowerPoint Demonstrations

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Tip 1. Know Your Audience

• These are the people you have to impress and your
  message should target that audience. Your
  friends may think your message is cool - but will
  they be the one in the audience judging your
  performance?

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Tip 2. Make Sure the Images and Text are Age
Appropriate.

• Is your audience diverse? Images should be too.

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Tip 3. Dont Use Every Trick in the Book.

• PowerPoint has a lot of neat features but dont
  use every one.
• Keep transitions to a minimum. Change only at
  the beginning and the end of your presentation.

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Tip 3. Dont Use Every Trick in the Book.

• Keep font animation to a minimum- beginning and
  end. The animations can be distracting and take
  away form your presentation/demonstration.

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Transitions

• It is very distracting to the judge and audience
  to watch a PowerPoint with numerous tricks.
• They will attempt to read your PowerPoint instead
  of pay attention to your wonderful demonstration!

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Tip 4. Be Aware of Image Quality.

• Resize using the corner handles to avoid
  distortion-especially the 4-H Logo!!!!

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Proper Image Incorrect
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Tip 4. Be Aware of Image Quality.

• When taking images off the internet try to get
  the original image and not the thumbnail. Web
  images are usually 75 dpi and print and screen
  should be 150 dpi.
• Credit the source of images when ever possible in
  small font.
• Use images - they do add to your PowerPoint and
  eliminate the repetition of slides with only text.

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Internet Images

• Proper Image Incorrect

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Tip 5. Fonts and Readability

• Use a maximum of two font sizes
• Font size 24 pt minimum
• Use fewer words and go BIG!
• Be aware of contrast.
• Use the classic templates that come with
  PowerPoint.

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Contrast

• This may be your favorite color combination, but
  can your audience read them?

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Overall

• You should dominate the demonstration, not the
  PowerPoint.
• Wording on slides should be cues for you to talk
• Make words key words and dont read slides word
  for word.
• List your Sources I got my information
  fromhave them available when possible.

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Sources

• Michele Walfred
• Dan Tabler
• www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com
• Personal Experience