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The less clutter you have on your slide, the more powerful your visual message will become.
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rabraham on 16 Apr 15This is something that will help transform presentations. Keeping it simple will ensure the audience stays engaged.
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Instead of a copy of your PowerPoint slides, it is far better to prepare a written document which highlights your content from the presentation and expands on that content.
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You will be able to notice more extraneous pieces of visual data that can be removed to increase visual clarity and improve communication.
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But including a healthy amount of white space sharpens viewers’ focus by isolating elements.
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Highlight the key phrases that you will help you rehearse for your presentation
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Listeners will get bored very quickly if they are asked to endure slide after slide of animation. For transitions between slides, use no more than two-three different types of transition effects and do not place transition
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I've struggled with using animations for transitions and lists. Now I read it may not be worth it. Yeah, back to basics and keep it simple.
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I will admit that I never use animations or transitions in any of my presentations. Not even a subtle fade. Not only is it extra junk, but it can add an hour to your development time. The most I do are builds. If I have a slide with an important point that I want to reveal, I will make two copies of the slide, and delete the "revealed" info on the first one. Then when I advance to the next slide, voila, I have a "transition".
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With my students presentations, It sooooo delayed their presentations with all of their animartions and transitions. I, too, kept thinking of these articles.
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Cut out the extraneous content. Speak to that content when you present
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This is when I move the cut text or additional text notes to the "Notes" section of the powerpoint, below the slide shot. Then, I like to print-out the slides to show the notes for my presentation.
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I was thinking that I would be using the notes area much more too. I've even been using it to keep the information of where I got the image on the slide so that I can decide where to add that later.
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For many people, the notes section is really good. If you haven't tried the presenter view within Power Point, it is worth trying. On your computer, you can see your current slide, the next slide coming up, the notes that you have, and a timer/clock. The audience only sees your slide.
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I have done so few PowerPoints but this was a great tip. I will be checking out my notes section and presenter for sure.
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The blurred backgrounds set off the stark white illustrations for quick visual processing:
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You can achieve this through consistent type styles, color, image treatment, and element placement throughout the slide deck.
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Another artistic point of placement and imagery through cohesiveness. I worry that I do not have the natural talent to put this together on my own, but I do see the real difference.
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Some presenters use lots of different colors, fonts and backgrounds. May it's just because they can and they haven't taken this course. The visual clutter distracts from the content and decreases the cohesiveness.
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I like creating templates using Google Slides to ensure that colors and fonts translate to all of the slides in a deck.
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We kind of pooh-pooh color and design elements in learning, as though it is just pretty-ness. But, it does have a big effect, and it is worth it to improve one's sense of color combination.
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If you have a detailed handout or publication for the audience to be passed out after your talk, you need not feel compelled to fill your PowerPoint slides with a great deal of text.
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I think this is a great point. The more I'm reading about what should (or is appropriate) be on a slide for the best presentations, it is better to have less, than more.
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Do you think the "after" is important? Is it better to pass it out after or before?
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interesting point.At the presentation I attend Monday afternoon the speaker handed out a document before he started his talk. in a way I liked being able to dot notes or highlight an idea or concept I wanted to review more closely later, but on the other hand it was very distracting to be leafing through the document trying to find the page that matched up with what he was discussing. I guess I would say it is better to wait till after your talk is done.
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Use the same font set throughout your entire slide presentation, and use no more than two complementary fonts (e.g., Arial and Arial Bold).
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This is something that we stress to our students, since based on what students will usually do is have many different text fonts and sizes. They tend to use whatever looks best for each slide, instead of having the presentation look more smooth and have a togetherness.
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I like using two fonts on slides: one to convey the big idea (title) and another to convey the supporting ideas (text).
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My rule of thumb is no more than two. One for headers, one for text (though I often use the same for each). I use a sans-serif font for my text, and either the same sans-serif font for my headers, or a designer font to communicate a special theme. I never use serif fonts.
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Use the same font set throughout your entire slide presentation, and use no more than two complementary fonts (e.g., Arial and Arial Bold).
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Images can be very powerful and effective if used with careful intention.
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This is so true. Many times the image used, is what immediately gets the audiences attention and interest. Images are very powerful. i.e. "A picture is worth a thousand words."
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I like the idea of using text over images, but it has to be the right image! This creates one image for students to remember, rather than an idea and an image.
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Lots of extras actually take away meaning because they become a distraction.
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As goes with the statement, "Less is more." I completely understand that too much can be a distraction for the eye. Too much on a slide, take s away the meaning and I feel it also makes a person wonder what they should focus on, such as what is the most important point I'm supposed to be receiving from this slide?
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The first step is admitting that you have a problem
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Depending on your content, you may be able to convert each bullet point into a separate image on one slide or over several slides.
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Here is what I'm going to work towards doing. Since learning about Zen, I realize I'm definitely adding too much to my slides, whether it be text or bullets. By using images, or at least less text and bullets, it appears presentations will be much more appealing and interesting to the audience. I really like the idea of using the images instead of any text at all. Then the presenter (me) will expand on the meaning of the image or what it stands for.
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Your slides should have plenty of “white space” or “negative space.” Do not feel compelled to fill empty areas on your slide with your logo or other unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not contribute to better understanding.
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This point has been huge for me. I really thought I would want to fill up the slide with information, not any more. I see the power of simplicity of the white or negative space.
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This is a great idea- I like the idea of negative space better than white space. My classroom is really bright so light text on a dark background sometimes works better than white.
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No audience will be excited about a cookie-cutter presentation, and we must therefore shy away from any supporting visuals, such as the ubiquitous PowerPoint Design Template, that suggests your presentation is formulaic or prepackaged.You can make your own background templates which will be more tailored to your needs.
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Avoid off-the-shelf clip art (though your own sketches & drawings can be a refreshing change if used consistently throughout the visuals).
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Go through your bullet points and try to highlight the main point of each bullet point. Try to bold only the key parts of each point — limit it to as few words as possible.
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Go through your bullet points and try to highlight the main point of each bullet point. Try to bold only the key parts of each point — limit it to as few words as possible.
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It is very common for people to “brain dump” all of their ideas or thoughts into “stream of consciousness” bullet points as they create slides.
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I think this happens because you want to make sure that all of the points you feel are important are given to the audience. It has been one of the most eye opening concepts from this course. I made note cards for my presentation, rather than putting all of the info on the slide. " Redundancy effect" is powerful!
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Yes, I had always thought bullet points were a good thing! Oh how wrong I was!
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I thought bullet points would be superior to long connected text or narrative on a slide. I really felt it was the most effective way to get your message out. Now I have seen the light!
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Me too. I have been using bullet points extensively all year. Google slides makes it very easy to do so...
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The best slides may have no text at all
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It is interesting to go to presentations while I'm taking this class. I took the ISEA's mandatory reporter training last week and it was an RN on a video with powerpoint slides for 3 hours. Lots of text, the crayon template and a graph that she kept going back to that you couldn't even read due to tiny font. Death by PowerPoint!
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This is true. It also is somewhat of a curse. You can get to the point where you can't see any presentation without being critical of it :)
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Absolutely. Just today I had to give a presentation to a class on behalf of another teacher. It had WAY too much text and I had great difficulty keeping the attention of 13 year old students. I couldn't help but think of this class while presenting.
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In the past, I would have a hard time with no text. My thought was that the slide should do the work. My students did presentations and I kept wanting to critique their slides.
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Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts
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though your own sketches & drawings can be a refreshing change if used consistently throughout the visuals)
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The trick becomes finding just the right image(s)
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Use high-quality graphics including photographs.
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But boring an audience with bullet point after bullet point is of little benefit to them
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This reminds me of that first video we watched for this class and the gun image. That has stuck with me and it is all because of the image of the gun!
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I just sat through a presentation Monday afternoon on PLCs and Short Data Cycle. The presentaer was very engaging but his PowerPoint was not! Too much text and bullets very few images. I found myself critiquing his slides instead of listening to the message!
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The right color can help persuade and motivate. Studies show that color usage can increase interest and improve learning comprehension and retention
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This looks like they were going for the full-bleed background image effect but just missed
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in your slide deck
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I have recently heard of a presentation set of slides referred to as a deck, but we certainly do not need 52 slides to present!
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Well, this depends. Some presenters make one master deck and then "hide" the slides they don't want. For the next preso, they hide different slides. Also, it depends on how you use your slides. If you talk for each slide, then 52 is way to many. But if you are using builds or quick sequences of slides as a substitute for bulleted lists, you can get there pretty quick. My rule of thumb is one slide every two minutes, but I do have one preso with 70 slides in it for a 45 minute preso. It is the exception, not the rule.
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At a recent in-service the speaker had 3 PowerPoints open he retrieved slides from different presentations based on our dicussion. It made the informtion much more relevant to our school but at the same time created a distraction when he couldn't find a slide and had to flip back and forth.
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the golden rule of PowerPoint presentations — always do what is right for your audience.
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add unrelated “decorations
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“Sorry I missed your presentation. I hear it was great. Can you just send me your PowerPoint slides?” But if they are good slides, they will be of little use without you.
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So make sure your slides pass what I call the glance test: People should be able to comprehend each one in about three seconds
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By getting out of the Slide View and into the Slide Sorter view, you can see how the logical flow of your presentation is progressing. In this view you may decide to break up one slide into, say, two-three slides so that your presentation has a more natural and logical flow or process.
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Not sure what two guys shaking hands in front of a globe has to do with the fertility rate in Japan. Yet even if we were talking about "international partnership" the image is still a cliché.
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An audience can’t listen to your presentation and read detailed, text-heavy slides at the same time (not without missing key parts of your message, anyway
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Very few audiences enjoy paragraph-length bullet points.
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It’s okay to cover details verbally that are not reflected in your bullet points.
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This introduces distracting visual noi