Wednesday, May 19, 2010

How to Survive Seventh Grade Presentations

I have seen many of these presentation and I noticed a lot of important things. For example, many of my classmates focus on more general terms like not being late to class and being organized. I actually made a slide about every teacher and how to pass their class. Most of the other presentation had no animations which I thought was kind of boring. I put enough animations to make it more fun but not so much that are too distracting. They were all actually very good. I wish I was given one of this presentations before entering high school to have been more prepared.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Powerpoint Rules

Powrpoint has some basic rules in order to make a good presentation. First and one of the most important, don't put every word you are going to say in your slides because this makes the audience know that you don't really know what you are talking about and it also makes the presentation boring. Also, after you finish a slide go back and check for spelling mistakes. Never put too much bullet points because they will loose their purpose of making a key piece of information stand out. Remember to make the background color not distracting and also make sure the color of the font makes it stand out. It is important to keep the presentation short with a minimum number of slides so that the audience doesn't get bored. A problem a lot of people have is that they have too much data in one slide which then gets hard to read and understand. Don't put too much distracting animations for they will be very distracting. Always make the font a good size and easy to read. Following these steps you will always make a great presentation.