Jazzing Up Your Presentations

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Jazzing Up Your Presentations

• Learn how to add
• Animation, Transitions,
• and make a good presentation.

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Pictures
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Working With Graphics
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Overlapping Graphics

• When you have 2 graphics that overlap, you can
  choose which is on top by right clicking on one
  and choosing order.
• To move a graphic by a small amount, click on it
  and then while holding the Control key down use
  the arrow keys to move it.

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Resizing a Graphic

• To maintain the perspective of a graphic, hold
  down the Shift key while stretching it from one
  of the corners.

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Adding Animation
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Why Use Animation

• Draws attention to certain points.
• Helps hold your audiences attention.
• Spices up your presentation.

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Animation Is Done From The Custom Animation Dialog
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The Custom Animation Dialog
WOW!
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The Custom Animation DialogEffect Tab
Here, you pick the item to work on its order.
Pick the Effect Sound here.
Choose how the Effect is introduced here.
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The Custom Animation DialogTiming Tab
Here, you pick the item to work on the order
they are presented.
These items dont use animation.
Choose when how the animation starts.
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Adding Transitions Between Slides

• Choose Slide Transition from the Slide Show menu
  and then

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Slide Transitions
Pick the transition you want here. The last
choice is Random.
Choose how to advance to the next slide here.
Choose the sound to play here.
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Designing a Good Presentation
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Slide Show Design Guidelines

• When you give a slide show, the content should be
  center stage. You want the tools you use - such
  as animations and transitions - to emphasize your
  points, not draw the audience's attention to
  special effects.

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Slide Show Design Guidelines (Continued)

• The same principle works with sound. An
  occasional burst of music or sound during a
  transition or animation will focus the audience
  on the slide show. However, frequent use of sound
  effects can draw attention away from your main
  points.

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Slide Show Design Guidelines (Continued)

• While you rehearse, you can also check your
  slides' visual impact. Too many words or pictures
  can distract the audience. If you find yourself
  using too much text, try turning one slide into
  two or three.

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Text

• Limit the number of bulleted items per page.
  There should be fewer than 6 bullets per page.
• Don't try to put too much text on a slide. Each
  slide should have less than 10 lines of text.

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Or Your Slide Might Look Like

• Here is a bunch of text. Its hard to read
  because
• It has too much text and bullets on the page.
• The font size has been reduced so that all the
  text would fit on the page.
• Some bullets are wordy. It the point does require
  a lot of clarification, then you should consider
  put it on its own slide.
• Wordy,wordy, wordy.
• And more wordy worthless points!
• And finally, one more point.
• It would be much better to
• Break the page into multiple pages.
• You are trying to get too many points across at
  the same time.
• Studies show that even if people can read the
  text, they usually only pay attention to three to
  5 points on a page.
• Studies also show that people with good eye sight
  have an easier time reading this page.
• Studies also show that anyone that has read this
  far into this slide must be very determined!
• Reduce the wordiness of what you are trying to
  say.
• Often, we tend to be wordy when writing.
• Try being concise.
• Just to make the point, here is another bullet
• With a few points.
• A bullet.

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Charts

• Make sure that you include enough labels so that
  people (and you) will know what the chart refers
  to.
• This is one of the biggest problems with the
  resident presentations.
• Often a simple bar chart is much easier to read
  than a 3D chart.
• Often it is difficult to compare the size of the
  bars in 3D charts.

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What is This About?
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Limit Your Animation

• Limit the amount of animation that you use.
• Don't use animation on most of your pages.
• If you animate your titles, have the rest of the
  slide appear after the title is displayed. You
  audience will be confused if the body appears
  before the title.

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Design Templates

• Consider how much information you will be
  displaying on each page when picking a design
  template. If you plan on presenting a lot of
  material per page, use a simple design template.
• The graphics on some design templates can use
  more than one eighth of the slide!

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Other Considerations

• Overhead Projectors have low contrast. Make sure
  you use high contrast colors or they will bleed
  together on the overhead.

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Final Checklist

• Does each slide have a title?
• Does all the information fit on the slide?
• Did you spell check the final copy?
• Are any of the graphics overlapping text?
• Are the charts sufficiently labeled? Are the axes
  labeled?

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Bye

• Good Luck On Your Presentation!