How to give a Power Point Presentation

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How to give a Power Point Presentation

• Holly Hunts, Ph.D., CFCS
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Montana State University

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Choose a topic that fits power point

• Lecture format
• Hard to do hands-on
• Lights off
• Two things at once
• Cognitive objectives
• Affective work at it
• Add frills
• Add statistics

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Start with a title slide

• Your name, position and company

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Set the ground rules (with or without a slide
about it)

• How long is the presentation going to last?
• Can they ask questions during the presentation?
• What material are they responsible for?
• Will there be an exam? Homework?
• Should they take notes?
• Is there a hand-out with the material on it?

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Give them a road map

• Introduction
• Main topics
• Summary
• Questions and answers
• Small group work

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Anticipatory Set

• Music
• Interesting photo
• Interesting quote (Internet)
• Interesting statistic (Internet)
• Provocative statement

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Examples

• With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow
  means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is
  quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green
  means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the
  heck did you get that banana?' Mitch
  HedbergAmerican comedian (1968 - 2005)

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Or a serious quote

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
  succeed is more important than any one thing.
  Abraham Lincoln16th president of US (1809 -
  1865)

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Group Topics Together

• Like an essay similar topics together
• Control what the audience sees at one time.
• One slide one topic

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Help your audience with transitions

• Use the title of your slides
• Use your voice YOU are value added
• REMEMBER Talk to the audience, not the screen!
• The show should NOT be totally self-explanatory
• Use bullet points that are meaningful
• And, but, or (chalkboard story)

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Note there are bullet points not paragraphs!

• Think about their notes
• Keywords
• Key statistics

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Edit!!!

• Think about controlling what the audience sees
  all at once (go back and edit)
• You unfold a story sequentially not all at
  once.
• check that you are consistent about
  capitalization.
• Capitalization
• Check spellling (or you look like a phool!)

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ALWAYS!!

• Know every word/diagram/equation/etc. YOU put on
  YOUR slide
• Ph.D. Exam example Power Pump
• Doubling ?

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Add sound effects

• Make sure they can be heard when presented
• Speed of computer for presentation
• Software of computer for presentation
• Speakers?