PowerPoint Makeover

Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1: Dean Shareski October 26th, 2007
2. Slide 2: Why would we use PowerPoint?
3. Slide 4: How folks butcher PowerPoint (it’s not your fault)
4. Slide 6: Templates…they look cool
5. Slide 7: Bullets…easy for me to organize
6. Slide 8: PowerPointlessness The tedious use of flashy transitions, graphics and sound effects while making a slide presentation that is pretty much lacking in thought, meaning and value.
7. Slide 9: Overload…Here’s everything I know
8. Slide 10: Reading the slide • The other big mistake many people make is putting a lot of text on the page and the reading it like the audience was stupid • This is true of kids and adults • Research tells us that we actually will be less likely to remember it this way • So let’s stop cramming our slides with text and for sure stop reading them!
9. Slide 11: Solutions
10. Slide 12: It is easy to dismiss design — to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters. Dan Pink
11. Slide 13: No Templates
12. Slide 14: Blogs • Good blogs are always updated • Blogs which are not are rarely read
13. Slide 17: The following 20 slides are courtesy of Nick Dvoracek of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/usingppt.htm
14. Slide 18: Background issues
15. Slide 19: Background issues Contrast Use light objects on a dark backgound
16. Slide 20: Background issues Contrast Or dark objects on a light backgound
17. Slide 21: Low contrast is difficult to read Even with strongly contrasting colors Low contrast is difficult to read Even with strongly contrasting colors
18. Slide 22: (Darker than background) What looks good on your monitor (Lighter than background) May not look good projected High contrast has more impact!
19. Slide 23: Frame text for emphasis and readability Frame text for emphasis and readability
20. Slide 24: the art of storytelling
21. Slide 25: What makes a good story?
22. Slide 30: A picture is worth a 1,000… American Soldiers
23. Slide 31: Emotion
24. Slide 32: Humor
25. Slide 33: Use a detailed script or outline
26. Slide 34: Dean’s Rules for Successful PowerPoint Presentations
27. Slide 35: 1 idea per slide
28. Slide 36: Animation and Sound Used minimally
29. Slide 37: Black Screen
30. Slide 38: Remote Mouse
31. Slide 39: Presenter View
32. Slide 42: Don’t provide a handout until you’re finished
33. Slide 45: BILL GATES STEVE JOBS
34. Slide 48: Presentation Gurus Lessig Godin Atkinson
35. Slide 49: Image Resources Clipart.com Flickr Morgue File
36. Slide 50: Dean Shareski http://ideasandthoughts.org shareski@gmail.com