PowerPoint Presentations
I
learned a lot of the stuff that was mentioned about PowerPoint presentations
either through undergraduate classes or by trial and error. However, it is
always helpful to hear the information again. One of the first slides needs to
be an outline of the entire presentation so that the audience knows what will
be covered throughout the presentation. The slides that contain any information
need simply bullet point the main and most important parts of that section of
the presentation. If your slides are too wordy then the audience will be too
focused on reading the slide rather than listening to the details that you are
trying to present. It should take from one to two minutes to discuss each
slide.
No- you
don’t want the audience to be focusing a lot on the words in your PowerPoint,
but you do want the audience to be able to read it. Therefore, it is important
that the background is not overbearing; it needs to be simple and consistent
throughout the presentation. The words also need to be big enough (but not too
big) for the audience to read.
One of
the points made was that graphs do a great job of relaying data. This makes
perfect sense but something I may not have thought of because I would have
wanted to add information along with the graph. However, in actuality the graph
can do the talking for the data.
Krista,
ReplyDeleteI too learned a lot about PowerPoint throughout our undergrad courses. One of the most important points that module 6 discussed was the importance of writing key bullet points on each slide. The audience would lose focus if there is too many words on one slide. Thanks for your insight into the readings!
Taylor Gonzalez