Presenting your paper with PowerPoint:

Module 8

Why write with PowerPoint?

• To supplement an oral presentation

• To incorporate visual and audio mediainto a presentation

• To disseminate information to a larger group

Power Point Presentation

Before You Start

• Audience– Who is your audience? What is your relationship with

them?

• Purpose– Are you informing? Arguing?

• Occasion– Is this a professional presentation? Are you at a

conference, at a meeting, in a classroom?

• Ethos– How do you want the audience to perceive you? Are

you representing a business or organization?

Your CanvasYour Canvas

ViewOptions

Text & ContentOptions

DesignOptions

Save & Print

Options

View Options

• Normal View– Add and develop text and content– Manipulate individual slides

• Slide Sorter View– View and change organization– Move and hide slides

• Slide Show View– View overall development– Give completed presentation

A Closer Look at Normal View

• Create new slides

• Add and edit text and content

• Compose facilitator notes

Custom Design Considerations

• Simplicity– Moderate color palette– Clear, unadorned fonts

• Consistency– Color and background

graphics– Font style and sizes

Choosing a Design Template

• Avoid templates with themes that don’t fit your information

• If your content includes images, avoid templates with large background graphics

• Streamlined templates with minimal background graphics present a professional image

Text & Content

• Text– Facilitates presentation– Reinforces key terms and concepts

• Images– Complement presentation– Illustrate or highlight main points

• Tables and Graphs– Support presentation– Present information in a visually appealing way

Text Considerations

• Keep text to a minimum

• Use “white space” to set off blocks of text

• Make phrase structure consistent within bulleted lists

Content Considerations

• Keep content to a minimum

• Use white space to set off visual content from text

• Choose appropriate images

• Allows presenter to control the appearance of text and content

• Provides transitions between slides

• Draws audience’s attention to the object being animated

• Distracting when used to excess

Save Options

• Disable Fast Saves– Keeps file size

manageable

To get to this dialog box:

Tools Options Save

Print Options

• Slides– Prints each slide on a

separate page

• Handouts– Prints a specified number

of slides on each page

• Notes Pages– Prints facilitator notes

along with slides

• Outline View– Prints the text of each slide

Reminders

• Consider your context– Audience– Purpose– Occasion– Ethos

• Communicate Effectively– Simple designs– Concise text– Relevant content