Let's be honest. We have all experienced ridiculously boring PowerPoint presentations. We have sat silently as someone read word for word through a million slides. We have dozed off as the monochromatic colors merged together in our minds and the content was lost among a droning buzz of a classmate's or instructor's voice.
If you haven't guessed, week 7 focused on PowerPoint. Now, I, for one, enjoy Power Point presentations if they are done properly. I do not want my reading skills insulted, and please, for goodness sake, make it interesting.... visually and verbally.
We were asked to compile a short presentation based on specified criteria, and it was mostly a review. As a Shorter student, and I think it particularly applies to the CAPP program, PowerPoint is utilized very frequently. Basics for how to put together a presentation and operate the program were covered in an computer course I previously took, but I think this is one area that cannot be reviewed enough. The best presentations are simple in verbiage and visually intriguing yet kind to the eyes. They note important points and key facts. When utilized correctly, PowerPoint presentations serve as valuable tools and complements to a presentation.
As a class, we participated in a discussion about some do's and don'ts of PowerPoint (from the lists found here and here). We each picked a few of out favorites from the list and shared ideas about how they can be used effectively in an awesome presentation. Besides the aforementioned, I also touched on editing, avoiding excessive flare (noises, flashing lights, blind-style fading from left to right transitions, etc.) and insuring that the presentation is formatted to open and load properly on the computer.
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