San Diego Jewish Academy High School Humanities PowerPoint Tips

• Tells a story
• Organizes your presentation
• Keeps the audience involved - hopefully

Liven up you presentation

• Animate text blocks -
  bring in text one key point at a time.
• Animate images -
  use multiple images or animations to show more depth.

A picture is worth...
Well, you can insert all kinds of images such as:

• Photographs
• Internet art
• Clip Art
• Charts and graphs
• Video
• Sound
• You need to be careful of file size - keep under 400k if possible
• Don't get carried away - make sure everything supports your content

Whoa, be careful...

• Use simple sentences or phrases
• Fit about seven or fewer lines on a slide...
  give or take...
  if you have more information,
  but it won't fit...
  continue the topic onto the next slide.
• Use colors and images that support your presentation.
• Use type that can be easily read oops, easily read from a distance.
  Try to keep body text no smaller than 24 points
  and titles at 36 points.
• Use templates until you get the hang, or not.
• Don't get carried away with lots of "cool stuff".

Finally...

Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse,
rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse,
rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, do you get the idea?

PowerPoint/Presentation Tips - http://www.tokitty.com/ppttips.htm - focuses on the creation of the PowerPoint slides.

10 Little-Known, Rarely Discussed, Highly Effective Presentation Techniques by Marjorie Brody at: http://www.powerpointers.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=25

21 Tips For Spellbinding Speeches by Eileen Kugler at: http://www.powerpointers.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=82