#18 (23 Things)

An oldie but a goodie!

Death by PowerPoint

View more presentations from Alexei Kapterev. (tags: tips powerpoint)

A point left out, is the common use of the internet to share these presentations.

Since the PPT will usually be 'shrunk' to save bandwidth, it is important to adjust your text size, color, drop shadows and so on to retain legibility. I cannot count the amount of "mouse type" and poor graphs that were mushed into illegibility because of this problem.

Q: What did you like about the presentation you embedded?

A: This presentation points up a significant number of problems common to powerpoint presentations. It is, however, only the most basic of primers, and researching the impact of your color and font selection, layouts, etc., can make a WORLD of difference.

Q: How might Slideshare be useful in the classroom?

A: Neat, packaged presentations of this type can be a springboard for discussion, providing a base of information from which to grow. Simple, neat and entertaining, they are easily made and shared!

Q: Out of the classroom?

A: There will come a time when every person must make a presentation to a group. Rather than rely on ones public speaking skills alone, reinforcement of the type offered by slideshare and zoho and others can make the difference between an event that is "snore pie with yawn sauce", and effective, efficient and riveting.