Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Bad PowerPoint

All of the bad PowerPoints were so bad they ended up being funny. The ones that I liked the most were Mary's, because of the steps that weren't in order; Jake's, because it was extremely short; and Nicole's, because of the font she used for her presentation.

Things to do in a PowerPoint presentation:
- Have only the necessary information
- Add a few, appropriate images
- Use a font size large enough for everyone to read
- Make sure the color of the font can be seen
- Check your spelling and grammar
- Use animations that do not distract the audience

Things not to do in a PowerPoint presentation:
- Overwhelm the audience with a lot of information
- Distract the audience with a lot of images and animations
- Have a small font with illegible font color
- Have spelling and grammar mistakes
- Bore your audience

My bad PowerPoint:
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jperez1/bad/bad%20powerpoint_files/frame.htm


Juan Perez

1 comment:

Alex Cheek said...

Hey Juan!
I thought your PowerPoint was really good. The blank slides with hard-to-read text were simple yet funny, and the slide with a lot of images demonstrated how annoying and distracting it can be when people do that.