Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A Bad PowerPoint Presentation


The bad PowerPoint presentations my classmates presented were great accomplishing their purpose. My three favorite presentations were Ryleigh's, Crispin's and Christian's. I liked how Ryleigh brought up new interesting points like listing the facts out of order and about pasting images directly linked to a web page in your bad PowerPoint presentation. I liked how Crispin pointed out the importance of checking spelling and grammar, the overloading of information in one slide, and how the text can blend with the background and be completely illegible. From Christian's presentation I liked how he inserted random funny pictures to emphasize that we don't need to do that in a PowerPoint presentation, and also the fact that he included general tips at the end.

Things to do in a PowerPoint presentation:

  1. Break major points into separate slides, no more than 3 to 5 points per slide.
  2. Use visuals wisely
  3. Use an adequate backround or template for the whole presentation.
  4. Choose a legible font and keep it through all the presentation.
  5. Always check spelling and grammar.
  6. Remember: keep it simple and be consistent!
Things not to do in a PowerPoint presentation:

  1. Load an slide with information.
  2. Overuse PowerPoint features (charts, clipart, animations, movies, sounds, pictures).
  3. Use electrifying colors for the backround and text on each slide (red and green).
  4. Use different kinds of fonts.
  5. Ignore spelling and grammar.
  6. Make the font blend in with the backround.

The following is a link to an example of a bad PowerPoint presentation:

4 comments:

Danielle Schmitt said...

Belen!
Your power point was really fun. I really liked all the graphics. It was interesting and visually pleasing. Great job.

gzdch said...

I really liked your powerpoint it was short and funny. My favorite slide was the one with all of the animations and sound effects.

Clarissa Terrell said...

Hey Belen,
You PowerPoint really got your point across and it was very creativity. My favorite part of your presentation was the slide on over use of PowerPoint features. I bet that took a long time to put together.

Ry said...

I loved all of the colors that you used. My favorite page was the Overuse of PowerPoint features. I also liked the sound effects. I thought that your presentation was very interesting!