WARNING. Boring PowerPoint presentations can cause a slow and painful death

WARNING

Boring PowerPoint presentations can cause a slow and painful death.

Your addiction to PowerPoint.

Welcome to PowerPointers Anonymous

Here, we can show you ways to create interesting and exciting presentations and

help you kick your PowerPoint habit.

Click the picture to see an example.

Prezi allows you to zoom in and out on images and concepts across a large area (NO SLIDES), create motion paths and embed images and videos to show relationships in what you are presenting.

http://prezi.com/

Glogs are interactive posters made by users from images, text, music and video. It's fantastic!http://www.glogster.com/

You can also try Juxio.com, another poster creation site.

Click to see the interactive poster.

Create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. http://www.dipity.com/

Click to see timeline example.

Produce completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.http://animoto.com/

Click to see sample Animoto videos.

But…

Sometimes PowerPoint is unavoidable.

For example, this presentation against using PowerPoint, actually IS a PowerPoint. Ironic.

If you still insist on using PowerPoint (or if your teacher still insists you use it)

at least make it interesting.

Simple Design Rules:

One Point Per Slide

Few Matching Colors

Very Few Fonts

Avoid too many bullets

Photos, not clipart

Less Text.

More Imagery.

BOLD Imagery.

High Quality (Copyright Free) Images

when it comes to text.

Most People Speak at 150 words per minute.

Most people READ at 250 words per minute.

So chances are, if you have too much on a slide, they are reading ahead and not paying attention to

you.

Ditch the Bullet Points Too Many Bullets Makes Things Boring And Too

Hard To

Follow

Avoid Bad Color Schemes That make it hard to read and Are Distracting

And just don’t look nice.

“Everything should be made as simple as possible

but not simpler.” -- Albert Einstein

Follow these rules…

&

Sources Hicks, Jaqueline. “Stop Killing Your Students with PowerPoint”

http://www.slideshare.net/sheldonict/stop-killing-students-with-powerpoint-presentation

Kapterev, Alexei. “Death By PowerPoint” http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint

Images Boldness II http://www.flickr.com/photos/poudyal/2502915040/ Death By PowerPoint cheezburger.com/indiechixor/lolz/View/2760941312 Einstein http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradmontgomery/4267300713/ Less is More http://www.flickr.com/photos/gigijin/142233062/ Lion from the Perth Zoo http://www.flickr.com/photos/yagankiely/4006895689/

Created by Julie Rohan, January 2011