October 23, 2007

Bad Powerpoints

My favorite power point presentations were by Juan Perez, Paul Hoeg, and Nicole Heroux. Juan's PowerPoint was really hard to read with the light colors he used and the small font. The white background was so boring and the text was all over the place. He made a good point with using all the same formatting for his slides. Paul's presentation was way too wordy with images all over the place. He used several different types of charts and had a non watchable movie which I found very humorous. Nicole's presentation was amazing because it used a completely unreadable in a symbol alphabet on all the slides. She had random noises in her PowerPoint that were also very distracting.

Here is a link to my own bad PowerPoint Presentation

Top Ten Things To Do (Or Not Do) To Make A Good PowerPoint
10. If you are resizing a picture be careful of the resolution on your picture
9. Do not use to many words to convey your point-be clear and concise
8. Use related pictures and backgrounds
7. If using a chart, make sure the information is easily readable
6. Use sounds and animations sparingly and only when appropriate
5. Do a spelling and grammar check on your presentation
4. Make sure your color choice for background color and font do not clash
3. Choose an easy to read font and do not vary this too much from slide to slide
2. Speak slowly when you go through your PowerPoint
1. Do not move the mouse around when you are giving your presentation as it is distracting to the viewer

Kate Goldsberry

3 comments:

Natalie said...

The third slide with all the pictures gave the impression that many pictures are not appropriate, I really like your "garish colors" in your second slide.

Sarah McGhee said...

Um, did you notice that your's was one of my faves? Because it definitely was! I really liked how you used the images and the sounds to make the presentation VERY overwhelming. And I loved the last page with the paragraph that went on and on with the bad spelling. Great job!

Samantha said...

I really liked your terrible use of colors, and the sounds that did and didn't work. Even if that was not intended, it made the presentation even more effective! Great, I mean terrible, job!