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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Topic 5: PowerPoint Presentation

Most Important PowerPoint Terms Learned:
1. New Slide
2. Text Box
3. Animation
4. Transition
5. Background
6. Hyperlink
7. WordArt
8. ClipArt
9. Spell Check
10. Font (Size, Color)
11. SlideShow
12. Design
13. View
14. Insert
15. Sound
16. Table
17. SmartArt
18. Chart
19. Notes
20. Slide Number

Like many of you, we have been "killed" by PowerPoints over the last decade. We have sat through countless presentations where the speaker simply reads off word for word each slide. We have all thought to ourselves, "I can read this. Why am I here"? Well, I have learned an effective presentation has much less on the actual slide. It only has the important points. That way, it is not overwheleming, adn the audience listens to the speaker. Also, I learned you can record your voice and narrate your PowerPoint. This is extremely useful for distance learning courses. Now, PowerPoints allows you to hyperlink videos, incorporate movie clips, add animations, sounds, tranistions, and more to make it much more appealing. Further, I learned there are proper formats to creating a PowerPoint. For example, a title page followed by an outline is appropriate. Slides should have bullets in point form, rather than lengthy sentences or paragraphs. Although all the multidemedia componets are exciting, one must be cautious not to go overboard as it will distract the audeince. Slides should be in simple form with an easy font to read. Colors should be in the same family and a simple background should be used. Here is a great video to give you some tips on how to make your PowerPoint meanigful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfFQ9XU7Jw

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