TIPS OF AN EFFECTIVE

PRESENTATION

• ABDULAZIZ B ASSANOSI

• E LEARNING INSTRUCTOR

• PSAU – SAUDI ARABIA

POWERPOINT

PowerPoint was originally designed for business sector to

enable managers and executives to display their ideas and plans visually.

It is based on the view that multimedia have powerful impact in transferring ideas and concepts.

It is the first and easiest ELearning software.

It is the most common educational program, although there are many competitive.

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POWERPOINT

Because PPT is basic in teaching, the question now is how to design an effective presentation, not how can I use PowerPoint.

In this presentation we will provide some advices to follow, common flaws to avoid and few tips and tricks to design an effective show.

The objective: designing a professional PPT that makes you stand away from others. Everyone knows PPT few people know how to use it effectively.

This workshop is based on (e learning – instructional design – and

educational psychology) concepts but not on computer science. It is not a

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POWERPOINT

Methodology: Direct application:. Tips and tricks will be applied in this presentation.

You can apply instantly with the instructor using you laptops.

It is a good idea to take note for extra practice.

This presentation is available on instructor’s website, LinkedIn and Slideshare.

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ELEMENTS TO BE COVERED

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OUTLINES

Present the outlines of your presentation on the first slide.

Example: Previous Slide.

Follow the order you presented.

Only mention the main points as outlines.

Example: slide titles.

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SLIDE LAYOUT (OPTIMAL)Use (one Slide for every one or two minutes) formula.

Write in Bullets style (like this).

Press (Tab) to write in sub-bullets.

You can press Tab again to make another sub bullet.

To return to the main bullet, press Shift + Tab.

Use Keywords only in your bullets.

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SLIDE LAYOUT (FLAWED)

This slide look flawed because it is not presented in

bullets form. All the sentences are condensed as one

block. Using this style is very distracting to students. It

also makes your audience read all the slide content in

advance which may affect their follow-up. Using long

sentences and minor details is also distracting. There

should be some gaps in every presentation to be filled

by oral comment. This should be taken into account

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SLIDE LAYOUT (OPTIMAL)

Use animations to show one bullet at a time.

Use simple animation.

Presenting all the bullets make audience read before you

explain the point.

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SLIDE LAYOUT (FLAWED)

Avoid presenting all the bullets in one time.

Avoid using complex animation, they were designed for classroom usage.

Do not use many animation (for entrance and Emphasis).

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ICONS (OPTIMAL)

Icons are symbols that visualize concepts and notions.

It add attractive additives to the presentation.

Use transparent icons that merged with the background.

Be sure of the semantic correlation between the icon and the content.

Put your icon in a proper spot so as not to interfere with the content.

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ICONS (SAMPLES)

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ICONS (FLAWED)

Avoid using complex icons.

Avoid using icons that are not.

semantically connected to the content.

Avoid using opaque icons, it distort backgrounds.

Funny icons and Emoji are not suitable for teaching.

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FONTS (OPTIMAL)

Use at least 24-point font.

Optimal font for PowerPoint ranges between 28 – 32 point.

Enlarge your font to match the slide spaces.

Shift between font sizes to enhance bullets.

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FONTS (FLAWED) Using small-size font harden follow-up.

ال تستخدم خطوط التزينيتجنب الخطوط المعقدة.

IF YOUR PRESENTATION IS IN ENGLISH AVOID CAPITAL LETTERS

Also be carful of complicated fonts.

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COLOURS (OPTIMAL)

Use font colour that contrasts sharply with the background.

Be logic in using colours (the title colour is the background colour).

You can change colour to enhance a point but do this occasionally.

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COLOURS (FLAWED)

Avoid using colours that do not match your background

Repeated change of colours is annoying and distracting.

Using one color for each bullet is also annoying.

Changing colours for sub-bullets is pointless.

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BACKGROUND (OPTIMAL)

Use attractive but simple background.

Always use light-colour background.

Use backgrounds with straight simple graphics.

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BACKGROUND (FLAWED)

Avoid backgrounds that make using one font colour difficult.

Avoid backgrounds that contain complex

drawings.

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BACKGROUNDS (FLAWED)

Avoid frequent change of backgrounds.

Avoid using pictures that may attract students attention.

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VIDEO (OPTIMAL)

Embed your video in the slide.

Shortly explain video content.

Long clips may make your presentation slower.

Facts about Recycling

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AUDIO (OPTIMAL)

Embed audio clips within slides.

Explain the content of the clip.

Use short audio clips.

Question 2

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HYPERLINKS

Hyperlinks enable you to make flexible nonlinear presentation.

Example: by clicking here you can go to the content slide.

You can make your content slide linked to all other slides in the presentations.

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GRAPHS

Using graph explain

information faster and effectively.

Add a title or description

to the graph.

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NEGLECTING GRAPHS

It is found that 35 persons

like apple, 30 ones like

orange and 10 like banana.

Kiwi fruit is liked by 25

person and 40 persons like

blueberry while only 5

persons like grapes.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Insert a (thank you) or (questions) slide at the end of the presentation.

Check your grammar and spelling carefully before publishing.

You can insert your name, contact information to reserve your copyrights.

You can protect your presentation by a password to prevent editing.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Press F5 to launch your presentation from the first slide.

Press [B] to hide the presentation and show black screen, if you prefer white screen press [w].

Press [G] to show thumbnails of the slides of your presentation.

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PUBLISHING

Save your work in PowerPoint show format [pps] or

[ppsx] to launch independently of PowerPoint software.

Save your PowerPoint on PDF format to prevent unauthorized usage.

You can publish your work on SlideShare or LinkedIn

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THANK YOU

I hope you benefited from this workshop.

The file of this workshop is available on instructor

website, SlideShare, and LinkedIn in both Arabic and

English.

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