The document outlines principles for effective presentations in 10 minutes or less, including planning the presentation, producing simple slides, practicing, and presenting with confidence. Key tips are to prepare a clear story and structure, keep slides simple with few lines and fonts, and practice presenting without reading slides while making eye contact with the audience.

1. Principles of
Effective Presentations
(In Ten Minutes or Less)
Oscar Retterer
Director, Instructional & Emerging Technologies
Franklin & Marshall

2. 10 Minutes ...
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/evaekeblad/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

3. Plan
Produce
Practice
Present

4. 1Plan

5. ‘‘By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to
fail.
Benjamin Franklin

6. What’s the Story
What are the goals of the presentation?
Who’s the audience?
How much time do you have?
Use paper and pencil first.
Adopt a structure.
Create a rough storyboard.

7. (Overly) Simple Plan
❶ Tell them what you’re going to say
❷ Say it
❸ Tell them what you said

8. To PowerPoint
or Not to PowerPoint?

9. 2Produce

10. ‘‘Simplicity is the
ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo daVinci

11. Basic Design Guidelines
❶ Font Size and Style (30 point or greater)
❷ Lines per slide (6-8 lines per slide)
❸ White space is your friend.
❹ Appropriate use of color and graphics
❺ Use animations and transitions to help
clarify an idea - not just because you can.
Keep it simple.

12. Ask Google
“effective presentation tips”
“effective presentations”
“effective powerpoint presentations”
“worst powerpoint presentation ever”

13. Simple Design Rules*
❶ One point per slide
❷Very Few Fonts
❸ Few matching colors
❹ Photos, not clipart.
Death By PowerPoint and How to Avoid It
Alexei Kapterev
* Pun intended

14. Source: http://blogs.fd.nl/frontrunner/2007/04/de_powerpointpr.html

15. Chilean Exports
• Fresh fruit leads Chile's export mix - Chile emerges as major supplier of fresh fruit to world
market due to ample natural resources, consumer demand for fresh fruit during winter season
in U.S. and Europe, and incentives in agricultural policies of Chilean government, encouraging
trend toward diversification of exports and development of nontraditional crops - U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture, Economic Research Service Report
• Chile is among the developing economies taking advantage of these trends, pursuing a free
market economy. This has allowed for diversification through the expansion of fruit production
for export, especially to the U.S. and Western Europe. Chile has successfully diversified its
agricultural sector to the extent that it is now a major fruit exporting nation. Many countries view
Chile's diversification of agriculture as a model to be followed.
• Meanwhile, the U.S. remains the largest single market for Chile's fruit exports. However,
increasing demand from the EC and Central and East European countries combined may
eventually surpass exports to the U.S., spurring further growth in Chile's exports.
• If you’ve read this far, your eyes probably hurt and you’ve been reading this tedious long-
winded text instead of listening to me. I’m insulted- can’t you see I’m doing a presentation up
here? Look at me! Congratulations, however, on having such good eyesight.
From Quite PossiblyTheWorld'sWorst PowerPoint Presentation Ever
Source: http://elmhurst.edu/~jacobh/WorstPresentationEverStandAlone.ppt

16. Edward Tufte
TheVisual Display of Quantitative Information
Source: http://tinyurl.com/chartjunk

17. Produce What?
Slides • Notes • Handouts
Presentation Zen - Garr Reynolds

18. Slideuments =
slide + document
Garr Reynolds

19. ❶ Keep your slides simple and employ good
design techniques
❷ Don’t overload your slides with too much
information.
❸ Use speaker notes and handouts to
reinforce your slides.
❹ Avoid slideuments and chart junk.
T!PS

20. 3Practice

21. ‘‘I know you've heard it a thousand
times before.But it's true - hard
work pays off. If you want to be
good,you have to practice,
practice,practice.
Ray Bradbury

22. T!PS
❶ Practice
❷ Practice
❸ Practice

23. 4Present

24. ‘‘Be sincere; be brief; be
seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

25. T!PS
❶ Speak loudly and clearly.
❷ Make eye contact.
❸ Speak to the audience; don’t read from
your slides.
❹ Have a back-up plan.
❺ Have fun!

26. Sharing
SlideShare
YouTube
Google Docs

27. http://www.ted.com/

28. Plan
Produce
Practice
Present