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Study Section 10: Ten Easy Ways to Make any Presentation Awesome

(http://hughculver.com/10-easy-ways-make-powerpoint-presentation-awesome/)

10.1 Connect

Actually, you can make a PowerPoint slide, display it on the screen for your audience, and find that the
visual aid you are displaying distracts, rather than enhances your presentation. You need to
understand what make up a excellent composition to a slide and what detracts from the message.
Most notice users of PowerPoint create slides with too much information on a slide using fonts that
detract, rather than attract from the information they are trying to present. Today we want to see ten
important suggestions that if taken, will result in creating “awesome” slides that will super enhance your
presentation to your audience. Let’s learn together…

10.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to give several tips in creating more effective PowerPoint presentations.

2. The student should be able to apply the advanced PowerPoint suggestions to his/her presentations to
enhance their affect on their audience.

10.3 Making Your Presentation Awesome

We’ve all suffered through horrible slide shows with long lists of unreadable bullets, pixelated clip art
delivered by a speaker who constantly turns away from the audience so they can read from the
screen. Here are 10 tips to creating a better presentation:

1. Build your slides last.

You could be tempted to start monkeying with slides early in your speech writing process – don’t. It’s like building a
road – until you know where that road is heading there’s no point laying down sidewalks and planting trees. Your
slides are there to ADD to a well-designed speech, not to replace it.

2. Don’t try to replace YOU!

People come to listen to you – your thoughts, interpretations and insights. Fancy transitions, YouTube clips, and
tons of text steal from your content and delivery.

Remember: every time you hit that clicker the audience leaves you and goes to the screen.

3. Use a consistent theme

A consistent theme pulls together the variety in your images and message, as you move from problem to solution.
You could use the baked-in themes supplied in PowerPoint or Keynote – I don’t because I want a simpler, more
unique look.

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