Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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What can you do to make it into a presentation?Take around 5 minutes only

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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I’ve got a lot to say

That’s why I’ve got lots of bullet points Because I’ve got lots to say And if I don’t put it all on this screen Altogether in the same place Then I think you might forget it all But what I’m really doing Is giving you too much information To take in in one go Now sit back, fold your arms and stop listening

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Have you got a PowerPoint?

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Have you got a presentation?

I’ve got a lot to say

That’s why I’ve got lots of bullet points Because I’ve got lots to say And if I don’t put it all on this screen Altogether in the same place Then I think you might forget it all But what I’m really doing Is giving you too much information To take in in one go

Decide what to do• I’m confusing your brain by making

you listen to this being read at my own pace whilst you try to read it yourself at your own pace which is naturally faster than mine because I’m speaking it and you’re probably scanning it. Oh and this isn’t really a bullet point is it.

I know how to use I know how to use PowerpointPowerpoint

• But I’m going to confuse your eyesBut I’m going to confuse your eyes

• By making things fly in from this sideBy making things fly in from this side

• And then from this sideAnd then from this side

• I’ve learnt some new skillsI’ve learnt some new skills

• But I didn’t use them to help people understand what I’m trying to But I didn’t use them to help people understand what I’m trying to saysay

this is PowerPoint

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

PowerPoint is

NOT your presentation

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Cardiovascular deaths

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Globalisation of illness

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Detail?

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

supply the detail

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

be more effective• show less on each slide

• use pictures sometimes instead of words• create your own template instead of using the same ones that everybody else does• above all, be creative with it – use it effectively to capture people’s attention!

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

be more effectiveshow less

use pictures

create your own template

be creative!

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

be more effectiveshow less

use pictures

create your own template

be creative!

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

be more effectiveshow less

use pictures

create your own template

be creative!

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

be more effectiveshow less

use pictures

create your own template

be creative!

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

What do I need to show?

According to recent statistics, 72% of the part-time workers in Japan are women

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

What do I need to show?

According to recent statistics, 72% of the part-time workers in Japan are women

72% of part-time workers in Japan are

women

72% of part-time workers in Japan are

women

72%

72%

of part-time workers

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Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

Why do we want a template?

styleconsistency

I like this template

I use it on all my slides It makes mine stand out from

everyone else’s Except for the 1,000,000,000

other people on the planet who also use it

Which means people are sick of seeing it over and over again

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

master slide

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)

be more effectiveshow less

use pictures

create your own template

be creative!

Making a Presentation (and avoiding bad PowerPoint)