Effective PowerPoint: An Introduction

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Effective PowerPoint An Introduction Jannette
Finch, Librarian http//www.cofc.edu/lgclibrary/
843.760.5860 LGCLibrarian_at_cofc.edu date April 3,
2007
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Objectives Know how to use PowerPoint Know how
to avoid PowerPoint ABUSE
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Agenda, Part IEffective PowerPoint

• First, Do No Harm
• (just because you can, does not mean you should)
• Font Types
• Font Sizes
• Color
• Tricks to fight relentless sequentiality

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Agenda, Part IIThe Basics

• Screen overview
• PowerPoint tools
• Adding media
• Saving the presentation

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Effective PowerPoint!
Just because you can, does not mean you should!
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Key Elements

• Size/Fonts
• Transition
• Images
• Sound

• Color
• Animation
• Hyperlinks

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Effective Font Size

• Can you read this? (14 pts)
• Can you read this? (16 pts)
• Can you read this? (18 pts)
• Can you read this? (20 pts)
• Can you read this? (24 pts)
• Can you read this? (28 pts)
• Can you read this? (32 pts)

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Serif Font Times Roman, Garamond, Georgia
Sans Serif Font Arial, Tahoma, Verdana
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Effective Transitions

• Consistent Color Schemes
• Consistent Formatting
• Avoid Distractions

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Effective Transitions

• Consistency is the Key
• Use the Consistent Color Schemes
• Use Consistent formatting
• Avoid Distractions

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Effective Images

• Reinforce/Expand Content
• Example
• Replace Text
• Use Good Quality
• Viewable at a Distance

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Effective Sound
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Effective Color

• Contrast Text Background

Dark Background with Light Text
Light Background with Dark Text
Dark Background with Light Text
Light Background with Light Text
Dark Background with Dark Text
Light Background with Light Text
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Consider Color Sensitivity
Normal
Red/Green Deficit
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Effective Animation

• Use with Caution
• Blank the Screen (B key on keyboard)

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Other Tricks

• Use the Pen (CtrlP)
• Ctrl A hides pen
• E erases
• Prepare Slides to End
• Dont drop into the program (shift F5)

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ask yourself is PowerPoint appropriate?
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If Not PowerPoint?

• Flip Charts
• Overheads
• Slide Projector
• White Board
• Dancers!

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PowerPoint Basics

• Screen overview
• PowerPoint tools
• Adding media
• Saving the presentation

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Screen Overview

• Normal view
• Task pane

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Menu Bar
Slide Pane
Tab Pane
Notes Pane
Drawing Toolbar
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Task Pane
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Alternate Views
Normal view
Slide Sorter View
Slide Show View
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New Presentations
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Creating Presentations

• Title slides
• Text slides
• Content slides
• Text and content slides
• Blank slides

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LAB 1
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Questions?
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Hyperlinks

• Electronic link providing direct access from one
  marked place to another
• Internal within document
• External outside document

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Insert Internal Hyperlink
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Insert External Hyperlink
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Insert Picture Menu
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Clip Art
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Clip Art (another option)
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Pictures from File
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LAB 2
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Questions?
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Saving the Presentation

• As PowerPoint .ppt vs .pps
• PowerPoint Viewer is standalone
• As a Web Page
• As Handouts

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Print or Print to File
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EXTRASExtra Exercises are included in your
handout.
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Text Boxes
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Word Art
Flare
Your words
Flash
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Design Templates
ORCreate your Own
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Slide Transitions
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Getting Help

• Microsoft PowerPoint Help (F1)
• MS PowerPoint Web Site
• http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857971033.a
  spx

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Sources

• Edward Tufte http//www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/inde
  x
• 10 Secrets for Using PowerPoint Effectively
  http//www.communicateusingtechnology.com/articles
  /ten_secrets_for_using_powerpoint.htm
• College of Charleston Academic Computing Liaisons
  http//www.cofc.edu/liaisons/
• original material by Mary Helen Hendrix
• Slide design
• credited to Ethan Effern Johnson
• For Fun What if Abraham Lincoln used PowerPoint
  to give the Gettysburg Address?
• http//www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

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THANK YOU!
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