Avoiding Common Mistakes with PowerPoint

1. Avoiding Common Mistakes with PowerPoint

2. 大綱 • Mistakes while preparing. • Blunders while presentation. • When PowerPoint is overpowering.

3. 1. Mistakes while preparing. • Creating the wrong message. • One size doesn’t fit all. • Be flexible. • Undermining your message. • 佈景風格和內容主題一致

4. Prettifying without purpose. • Distract or confuse. • Unless it enhance your message. • Passing poor design. • Too much information. • Misspelled. • Creepy colors.

5. Using too many special effects. • Forgetting to practice. • Run through all the pages. • Use common fonts. • Check the hardware.

6. 2. Avoiding Mistakes When Presenting. • Ignoring your audience. • Connect to them. • PowerPointisabridgenotabarrier.

7. Nottalkingaboutwhat’sontheslide. • Gooffonatangent. • Be attention to your slide. • Reading the slides

8. Having bad timing. • Do not use timer feature. • Using someone else’s slides. • Build your own presentation.

9. 3. When PowerPoint is overpowering. • Critics thinkPowerPoint: • Emphasize form than content. • Keeps from connecting with audience. • Dilemma • If you do have PowerPoint: You don’t have your own opinion. • If you don’t: You are lazy or unprepared.

10. How to solve the dilemma? • Joe DiNucci’s case. • Life after death by PowerPoint 2010 by Don McMillan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZDZ78fGWk

11. Thank you for your listening.