PowerPoints Do's and Don'ts
Summary
TLDRThis video offers essential tips for effective PowerPoint presentations, highlighting the importance of clear, concise slides with high-contrast colors and relevant visuals. It emphasizes the need for large fonts, numbered slides, and audience engagement through activities. Additionally, it provides a list of 'don'ts', including overuse of animations and avoiding cluttered slides, to prevent 'Death by PowerPoint' and ensure impactful communication.
Takeaways
- 📝 Use slides as a summary of key points and ideas, not as an essay.
- 🎨 Ensure high contrast colors for readability and include relevant visuals to engage visual learners.
- 🔍 Proofread presentations to avoid typos and maintain a professional appearance.
- 📐 Choose a font size of at least 30 to ensure visibility from the back of the room.
- 🔢 Number slides for easy reference and organization, which aids in presenter notes as well.
- 👀 Select simple, sans-serif fonts for ease of reading in projected presentations.
- 👥 Involve the audience through activities on slides, such as matching activities, to foster engagement.
- 🗺️ Utilize presentation plans or outlines to navigate disruptions and stay on track with your points.
- 🎨 Incorporate visual elements like SmartArt to transform bullet points into more engaging formats.
- 🚫 Avoid using all caps, acronyms, or overly complex terms that may confuse the audience.
- 👥 Maintain eye contact with the audience; avoid turning your back to read from the screen.
- 📝 Do not script every word of your speech into the slides, as it can bore the audience.
- 🖱️ Use the built-in pointer function instead of a laser pointer for highlighting on slides.
- 📑 Simplify messages and avoid clutter on slides; use more slides if necessary to keep content clear.
- 🎨 Stick to one or two fonts and avoid varying sizes excessively to maintain consistency and clarity.
- 🚫 Use bullet points sparingly to highlight key points and avoid overwhelming the audience.
- 🌈 Avoid clashing colors and overly distracting backgrounds to keep the focus on content.
- 🔧 Anticipate technical issues by doing a tech check before the presentation to ensure smooth delivery.
- 🎉 Remember that flashy effects and animations should not overshadow solid content; use them sparingly.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of a PowerPoint slide according to the script?
-The main purpose of a PowerPoint slide is to serve as a summary of important points and key ideas. It should use keywords, main points, and phrases rather than full sentences or paragraphs.
Why is using colors with sharp contrast important in PowerPoint presentations?
-Using colors with sharp contrast is important because it makes the slides easy for the audience to read, ensuring that the information is clearly visible and accessible.
What role do relevant images and visuals play in a PowerPoint presentation?
-Relevant images and visuals play a crucial role in conveying meaning and content. They can appeal to visual learners and help in making the presentation more engaging and memorable.
Why is it essential to use spell check in PowerPoint presentations?
-Using spell check is essential to avoid typos, spelling, and grammar mistakes, which can make a presentation look unprofessional and distract the audience from the content.
What is the minimum font size recommended for projected presentations?
-The minimum font size recommended for projected presentations is 30 points, ensuring that the audience can read the content even from the back of the lecture hall.
Why should numbers be included on slides?
-Numbers should be included on slides to allow easy reference to a particular slide, which can also assist with presenter notes and help maintain the flow of the presentation.
What type of fonts are suggested for PowerPoint presentations, and why?
-Simple fonts, particularly sans-serif fonts, are suggested because they tend to be the easiest to read, enhancing the readability of the slides for the audience.
How can audience involvement be encouraged during a presentation?
-Audience involvement can be encouraged by using slides to provide activities, such as matching games, or by conducting polls, surveys, or quizzes using specialized hardware or web-based applications.
What is the benefit of having a presentation plan or outline for the presenter?
-A presentation plan or outline helps the presenter stay on track, manage disruptions or digressions, and serves as a reminder of all the points and examples they want to cover.
Why is it recommended to add visual elements like SmartArt to PowerPoint slides?
-Adding visual elements like SmartArt helps transform a boring bullet point and text format into one that shows how concepts are ordered or related, appealing to the visual learner in the audience.
What are some common mistakes to avoid when making a PowerPoint presentation, according to the script?
-Some common mistakes to avoid include using all capital letters, facing the screen while presenting, writing out every word of the presentation, using a laser pointer, overcrowding slides with information, using too many fonts, overusing bullet points, using clashing colors, and relying too much on animations and flashy effects.
Outlines
📈 Effective PowerPoint Presentation Tips
This paragraph outlines the top 10 tips for using PowerPoint effectively. It emphasizes the importance of summarizing key points on slides, using keywords and phrases over full sentences, and employing high-contrast colors for readability. It also stresses the use of relevant images and visuals to aid understanding, the necessity of proofreading for professionalism, and the need for large, readable fonts. Additionally, it suggests using numbered slides for easy reference, simple fonts for clarity, engaging the audience with activities, and incorporating visual elements like SmartArt to enhance presentation quality.
🚫 Common PowerPoint Presentation Mistakes
The second paragraph focuses on the top 10 mistakes to avoid in PowerPoint presentations. It advises against using all caps, excessive acronyms, and facing the screen while presenting, which can disrupt audience engagement. It also warns against reading every word from the slides, which can bore the audience, and suggests using the slide pointer function for highlighting instead of a laser pointer. The paragraph further recommends avoiding cluttered slides, sticking to a limited number of fonts and sizes for consistency, using bullet points sparingly, avoiding clashing colors, and conducting a tech check before the presentation. Lastly, it cautions against relying on flashy effects at the expense of solid content.
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Keywords
💡PowerPoint
💡Summary
💡Contrast
💡Relevant Images
💡Typos
💡Font Size
💡Slide Numbers
💡Simple Fonts
💡Audience Involvement
💡Presentation Plan
💡Visual Elements
💡Death by PowerPoint
💡Bullet Points
💡Murphy's Law
💡Animations
Highlights
Use slides as a summary of important points and key ideas, avoiding long sentences and paragraphs.
Utilize colors with sharp contrast for easy readability.
Incorporate relevant images and visuals to convey meaning effectively.
Maintain professionalism by using spell check to avoid typos and grammatical errors.
Ensure font size is at least 30 points for clear visibility from the back of the room.
Number slides to facilitate easy reference and organization.
Choose simple, sans-serif fonts for optimal readability.
Engage the audience by using slides for activities, not just content presentation.
Use specialized hardware or web-based applications for interactive audience involvement.
Have a presentation plan or outline to guide the flow and handle disruptions.
Add visual elements like SmartArt to illustrate concept relationships and order.
Avoid 'Death by PowerPoint' by not overloading slides with text and information.
Do not use all capital letters, abbreviations, or acronyms that are not easily understood.
Maintain eye contact with the audience instead of facing the screen while presenting.
Avoid reading every word from the slides; keep the presentation engaging.
Use the built-in slide pointer function instead of a laser pointer for highlighting.
Simplify messages and avoid cluttering slides with too much information.
Stick to one or two fonts and avoid varying sizes too much for consistency.
Use bullet points sparingly to highlight only key or important points.
Avoid clashing colors or overly distracting backgrounds, fonts, and graphics.
Anticipate technical issues by doing a tech check before the presentation.
Ensure content is solid and use animations and flashy effects sparingly to avoid distraction.
Transcripts
[Music]
today I'd like to talk about some
general tips on how to use PowerPoint
presentations effectively specifically
we'll be looking at the top 10
PowerPoint things which you should
remember to do
number
one slides should be a summary of the
important points and key ideas a
presentation is not an essay so use
keywords main points and phrases rather
than sentences and
paragraphs remember to use colors which
give a sharp contrast so the slides are
easy for the audience to
read number three remember to use
relevant images and visuals
pictures go a long way to convey meaning
and content so don't forget to appeal to
the visual
Learners number four presentations which
have typos or spelling and grammar
mistakes look very unprofessional so
remember to use spell
check number five when it comes to fonts
size does matter for projected
presentations be sure to use at least a
30o font so that your audience will be
able to read it even from the back of
the lecture
hall number six be sure to have numbers
on your slides so that you can refer to
a particular slide easily this will also
assist you with presenter notes if you
use
them number seven remember to use simple
fonts sansera fonts tend to be the
easiest to
read number eight one of the most
important things in any presentation is
to involve the audience no one wants to
just listen to a presenter drone on and
on one easy way to encourage audience
involvement is to use slides to provide
activities rather than just present
content in this example a matching
activity is given for the audience to
complete other ways to encourage
audience participation include using
specialized Hardware such as handheld
clickers to conduct polls surveys or
quizzes alternatively you could use web
base polls or similar applications there
are plenty to choose
from number nine as a presenter it's a
good idea to have a presentation plan or
outline for you to follow this can help
if there are disruptions digressions or
distracting questions it can also serve
as a reminder of all the points and
examples you want to
give and finally number 10 add visual
elements such as smart art to your
slides this will help change a boring
bullet point and text format into one
which shows how concepts are ordered or
related this can appeal to the visual
learner in all of
us we've all probably seen some pretty
pretty bad PowerPoint presentations in
our time and may have even experienced
the dreaded Death by PowerPoint syndrome
with this in mind I've compiled a list
of the top 10 things not to do in a
presentation so without further Ado here
is the top 10 list of things not to do
when making a PowerPoint
presentation number one don't use all
capital
a bunch of short forms or a a t n o u
annoying acronyms that no one
understands two resist the temptation to
face the screen so that you can read
from it when presenting no one wants to
look at the back of your head remember
eye contact is key to a good
presentation number three don't write
every single word you are going to say
in your presentation regardless of how
long and boring it will be since this is
likely to put the audience to sleep
before the end of the slide or even
sooner you get the
idea number four shining a laser pointer
at a slide isn't an effective way to
highlight something it's typically hard
to see and distracting instead use the
built-in slide pointer function contrl
and P to turn the a cursor Arrow into a
red pointer it will show up much better
on the screen and you can even save your
notations at the end controll and a will
return it to an arrow when you're
done number five avoid giving out too
much information especially on a single
slide if things start to get cluttery
simplify the message or even use more
slides but with fewer
points number six stick to one or maybe
two fawns rather than more and don't
vary the sizes too much either it can
get confusing and hard to
follow number seven bullet points should
be used sparingly to highlight only key
or important points some people say to
avoid them
completely number eight try to avoid
clashing colors or an overly distract
extracting rainbow of backgrounds fonts
and Graphics keep it
simple number nine anticipate Murphy's
Law when it comes to the necessary
technological tools that you'll need
such as mics flash drives mice and other
things don't forget to do a tech check
before the
presentation and finally number 10 don't
think that whistles and bells can
replace good content make sure the
content is solid and only use animation
flashy effects and the like sparingly or
it can distract the audience don't let
the delivery detract from the message
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