Pretty, PowerfulPowerPoint Presentations

By Deborah A. Chávez

Wilton Staff Development DayWednesday, September 28, 2012

Power Point is Easy Hardest Part - What to Say

Organizing Ideas Slides & Bullet Points

Fun Part - Dress It Up Color Schemes, Backgrounds & Fonts Graphics

Google Images, Photos, Scanned Images Charts, Graphs, SmartArt

Transitions & Animations Audio & Video

What to Say

Organized Outline Nuggets of Wisdom Brief, Succinct Focused, Concise Avoid unnecessary details

How to Say It

Bullets Max. 8 bullets per slide Max. 5 words per bullet Avoid Complete Sentences. Germ of the idea Concentrated, freeze-dried

Talk to the bullets Speaker notes

Fun Part – Dress it Up

Visual Impact Graphic Elements Sound Video Transitions Animations

Visual Impact

Backgrounds Design Themes Templates Scanned Image,

Watermark, Trademark

Color Schemes Fonts Bullets

Graphic Elements

Google Images Photos Scanned Images Logos, branding Charts, graphs

SmartArt

Sound

CD tracks Music downloads

.mp3, .mp4, .wav, .wma Recorded Narration Sound effects

Video Clips

.mp4, .avi, .mov, .wmv, YouTube videos

Requires Adobe Flash Check PowerPoint help for links

Different versions require different plug-ins

Transitions & Animations

Slide Transitions Object Animations – order & timing

Text Line, Word, letter Level, groupings Fade (don’t dim)

Graphics Sound Video

Humor

Content What you say

Packaging How you say it What it looks like

How long they’ll listen

Powerful Communication

PowerPoint is the tool Facilitates Impressive Presentations Easy & Fun Creative Start Simple Add lots of bells & whistles Use humor to keep attention