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National Weather Service Training Division Powerful Presentations Creating engaging and supportive visuals for your presentations

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This is a presentation I delivered at SIDLIT one year on creating engaging and supportive visuals for presentations.It might not make a lot of sense unless you read the slide notes. Also ---- slideshare has a tendency to truncate my presentations for some reason... I am not sure why....

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National Weather Service Training Division

Powerful Presentations

Creating engaging and supportive visuals for your presentations

National Weather Service Training Division

Session Objectives: Identify strategies for…

Creating clearer more engaging presentations.

Avoiding death by bullet points.

Applying two different Smart Art techniques.

Controlling slide transitions.

Creating custom animations.

Adding video, sound, and images

to PowerPoint.

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Order of Discussion

Balance

Smart Art & Images

A Note of Caution

More Images & Video

Closing Thoughts

Balance

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Things to Consider

Which is more important??? Content Design

Well organized

Accurate content

Meets expectations

Support the

objectives

Clean

Supportive (not

distracting)

Support the

knowledge type

A note of caution…

Midnight

Teamwork

Or Futility?

Even worse…

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AVOID DERAILMENT

My Suggestions

Use the following order:1. Write your objectives.2. Write content to your

objectives noting where images could be useful.

3. Place content on slides using the outline view.

4. Embellish.

Working with images…

Startling…

…better.

Transparent Backgrounds 2

Transparent Backgrounds 2

Full Page Image

Image Enhancement 1

Layering Images

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Emphasis

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Creative Emphasis

Working with video…

Enhanced Text & Button

Press this button to begin.

Movie

Closing thoughts…

Take time to build a template.

Less…

…is more.

I’m here for you, buddy!

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Wrap Up

• Write first.• Minimize the use of text.• Avoid writing on images.

– Use color blocks.– Use glows.

• Use picture affects.• Use Smart Art.• Practice makes perfect.

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Q& A Time