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Now that you understand what the software can do, its time to learn how to use some of its features to make a presentation that will be appropriate for your audience.



Develop your skills - Develop a presentation

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Learn how to:

Stable 2007 textbook
Stable 2003 textbook

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Chapter 4
pp. 525-538

  • add some graphic elements to your presentation,
  • apply a design template to your work so that fonts, colours, bullets and graphic elements like charts, tables etc are all consistent and co-ordinated.


In your textbook, complete the pages and exercises in chapter four on Enhancing a Presentation.

 


TASK
  1. Complete the Develop Your Skills 3 , pp. 538

  2. View one of the PowerPoint presentations opposite.
    (Choose a topic that interests you, or is practical).
  3. View the presentation as a slide show and then in outline view (you will need to save these documents to your computer then open them in PowerPoint).
    • what works in the presentation in both views?
    • what annoys you most in either view?
    • what have you learned about enhancing your presentations either from the content of these PowerPoints or from the enhancements chosen by the authors ?
  4. Compare your ideas with mine.

Tips & tricks icon Tips & Tricks

Accurate Resizing (p. 529)

Using the <ctrl> key will enable you to proportionally resize your graphic to fit into a desired space. However this does not change the size of your graphic. If you want the overall size of your PowerPoint presentation to be small, you will need to resize your images in a graphics program.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 http://www.actden.com/pp/unit4/4_main.htm
Graphic Tutorials

Drawing Toolbar

Chapter 4 Enhancing a Presentation of your text introduces you to the drawing toolbar which is the same in PowerPoint as in Microsoft Word.
This can become an invaluable tool when developing presentations. Take some time to see if you can:

    • draw different shape boxes and write in them,
    • change the fill
    • change the size and colour of lines
      The tutorial opposite will help you develop some graphic drawing skills.


Putting it to work: Designing a Powerpoint

This section introduced you to the basics of a PowerPoint design. The following activities will develop your design skills and knowledge further.

Audience
Audience
Start with your audience
Asking who I am designing my presentation for is the starting point for designing an effective presentation. Explore the short reading opposite to find a quick way of remembering how to analyse your audience

 

http://www.presentation-pointers.com/showarticle/articleid/374/
Designing an
Influential
Presentation

Basic classification of type
Preparing a
Presentation PDF
(202k)

After audience, then.....
 Two articles opposite provide an overview of the steps required to develop an effective presentation. Both are reasonably short.

Read one of these and add to your checklist for developing your presentation for your assessment

 


Does beautiful communicate?

Does beautiful communicate?
Reading

Many beginning users of PowerPoint spend a lot of time making their presentation look beautiful. This may not be the best place to put your efforts.


Read the short extract opposite about important aspects to think about in designing your presentation. Add any further ideas to your checklist.

 

http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Effective_visuals/105.html
Important
Design Concepts

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/pptext.html
PowerPoint and
Text

http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/2003/04/16/how_to_select_perfectly_matching.htm
Perfectly
Matching Color

http://www.masterviews.com/2002/01/15/what_colors_should_i_use.htm
What colours
should I use?

http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010120721033&CTT=4&Origin=CH010716271033
Choose the
right colours...

Tips and Techniques
The resources listed opposite contain a range of tips and advice regarding the effective desgin of PowerPoint. Use the ones you think are most appropriate to develop your checklist.

  • Important Design Concepts - a short tutorial that introduces 4 key concepts that you can use to put your visuals together - very practical!
  • Powerpoint and Text provides some very practical advice about the types of text you can use in your presentation.
  • Colour can be a great challenge in PowerPoint. These three resources will help you with the use of colour
    1. How to Select Perfectly Matching Color Combinations provides a series of links to understanding the basics of colour theory.
    2. What colours should I use? introduces 3 important principles: restraint, legibility and consistency.
    3. Choose the right colors for your PowerPoint presentation is an article from the Microsoft Office suport site on basic colour theory.


What have I learned?

After completing these activities you should:
  1. understand the basic considerations you need when composing a presentation
  2. how important the information design of your message is as opposed to the aesthetics
  3. undertand some basic issues to do with colour and font selection
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