1. Don’t miss the point. • Teach good design skills • Teach good presentation skills • Powerpoint is only a visual aid

2. Design Tips for PowerPoint • 1st –– Backgrounds – Templates • Best fonts • Bullets –– 6 is max • Content is king! • Words on a slide –– 25 or less • Images –– key Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

3. Pick a good template • Match the mood • Look professional • Don’t get the blues • medium blues • navy blue OK Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

4. Bluesy templates – yikes! Azure Bluediagonal Lock & key Soaring Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

5. Use high contrast colors GOOD GOOD GOOD Brightondark Darkonbright EVIL EVIL EVIL Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

6. Why high-contrast? • Your PC screen is hi-res • everything looks great • don’t trust it! • big displays “wash out” colors • always TEST on final equipment • alter template’s defaults as needed Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

7. See for yourself • Which line is easier to read? • Which line is easier to read? Which line is easier to read? Which line is easier to read? Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

8. Which is easier to read? Lessvisualcomplexity Strongerlines Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate. Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate. Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

9. Be font savvy Sans serifgood • Arial • Arial Black • Futura • Tahoma Serifbad • Times New Roman • New York • Courier Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

10. Don’t waste bullets • use • no • more • than • 6 • in a list Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

11. Observe the limit 25 More looksbusy words per slidemax Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

12. Single phrases Short lists Questions for audience Quotes Photographs Video Words in the PowerPoint are talking points and headings only. Do not read PowerPoint aloud during your demonstration. Content is King! Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

13. Weird sound effects Most transitions Flying text Strange animations Bad clip-art Avoid death by cheese… Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

14. Clip-art Hall of Shame Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

15. PowerPoint rules No more than one graphic image per slide. Make it count! Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens, University of Texas

16. Graphics • Use quality graphics • MSN Images or Google Images • Remember citations