Class Session: Thursday Jan 01, 1970
Powerpoint can create amazing slides. You just need to move away from some of the defaults and apply good design and layout. See below for design tips:
It can be tricky to tailor your message. It's hard to be all things to all people; if you are presenting to experts, you will bore or offend them if you over-explain. You can get away with using some jargon with specialists, but the general population will not understand arcane language. For our presentations, it will be assumed that you are presenting to a general audience of your peers.
Slide Share: Explore Be careful, this can take a lot of time
First of all, people are easily bored. But there are four things they always notice.
Large photo backgrounds are a great resource for communicating via slides : find.aphoto: Creative Commons Photos
Visual matter is very important, but knowing your audience is most important.
In the Slide pane, you can work directly on individual slides.
Dotted borders identify placeholders where you can type text or insert pictures, charts, and other objects
The Slides tab shows a thumbnail version of each full size slide shown in the Slide pane. After you add other slides, you can click a thumbnail on the Slides tab to make the slide appear in the Slide pane. Or you can drag thumbnails to rearrange the slides in your presentation. You can also add or delete slides on the Slides tab.
In the Notes pane, you can type notes about the current slide.
You can edit text on slides by typing either in the outline tab or the slide pane and you can change the order of slides by moving slides in the outline tab or in the Slide Sorter view.
Normal View shows you three frames simultaneously
Slide Sorter View shows you miniature images of all the slides in the presentation.
Slide Show View takes over your screen to show you a single slide in presentation format.