How to use powerpoint effectively

Sick of boring text heavy presentations?
Follow along and pick up some easy to use tips to make your next presentation more interesting.

See the video of the talk at https://vimeo.com/68227992

Transcript

1. powerpoint how to use effectively
2. Some information (cont) • A bullet point • Another bullet point • One with sub points, all relevant and important – This is very important but not very long – This one is longer and will take you a while to be able to read it all before you realise that it’s not saying anything and only describing how long a point it is making – Some numbers here – 25% decrease in readability but an overall 200% increase in the amount of words • €25 billion each year • Some points might even reference an earlier point and you have to scan back through them
4. LARGE TEXT
5. LARGE TEXT is much more effective
6. LARGE TEXT is much more effective than a big wall of text and bullet points that have lots of information that someone wants to read and now they are ignoring what you are saying because they are concentrating on trying to get to the end of all the writing before you go and change the slide in case they miss the obviously important information that you’re trying to convey.
8. use
9. lots
10. of
11. slides
12. There is no shortage of electronic ink
13. It keeps your audience interested
14. It keeps your audience interested engaged
15. It keeps your audience interested engaged awake
16. •Using •Bullet •Points
17. •Using •Bullet •Points
18. Create another slide
19. one
20. (or more)
21. for each point
22. you want to make
23. Remember
24. There is no shortage of electronic ink
25. keeps your audience interested
26. keeps your audience interested engaged
27. keeps your audience interested engaged awake
28. repetition Repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition Repetition Repetition repetition
29. Use colour
30. No, really
31. Use colour
32. show what’s important Use it to
33. to draw attention
34. You’re all fired!
35. pictures
36. can give a natural break http://www.tucantravel.com/images/stories/JoomGallery/pictures/large_1/peru_7/peru_on_road_toilet_stop.jpg
37. or the time to absorb http://www.revcom.us/a/1268/sponge-bob.htm
38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zestee/5232344443/
39. Your slides are not your notes
40. read
41. trigger
42. use
43. Support your message
44. inform
45. entertain
46. enjoy
48. repetition Repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition Repetition Repetition repetition
49. colour
51. thanks