2. Use a contents page
• What’s the point?
• The problem with animation
• Using quotations
• Using graphics and images
• Spelling
• Fonts
3. What’s the point?
The purpose of PowerPoint is to provide a visual aid
for a presentation. It’s a particularly versatile and
effective visual aid for a number of reasons. Firstly, it
makes your talk more interesting for the audience by
providing a visual representation of the topics
covered. Moreover, it helps you to structure your talk
and break it down into clearly identifiable topics. It
also helps the audience (and you) to recognise and
remember the main points that you are covering.
Finally, if you are self-conscious about talking in front
of people, the PowerPoint focuses the audience’s
attention away from you towards the slide-show.
4. What’s the point?
• Versatile and effective visual aid
• Visual representation of topics
• Engaging
• Provides structure
• Aids memory
• Diverts attention from the speaker
5. The problem with animation
• Animation can make a PPT more dynamic.
• It gives more control over elements, but
• it can be distracting for the audience …
• if it’s over used.
• So the advice is..
• use it sensibly.
6. ‘If you’re using a quotation,
provide a reference.’
Mark
Hetherington,
2011
7. A picture paints a thousand words…
Writing
Reading
Talking
Communication
8. Copying images
• Use the best quality picture
available
• Don’t copy thumbnails
• Don’t stretch images
9. Remeber
• Check your speelling
• Audeinces notice spelling miztakes
• They can be distaracting , confosing and
embrassing…
10. Fonts
• Use an easily readable font and
colour
(Sans serifs like Arial or Calibri tend to be the
easiest to read on screens.)
• 30+
Use an appropriate font size
• Use a consistent format throughout
• Avoid centring your text
