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MYERSBestPracticePPWTemplate.pptxBest Practices
Here’s a few slides that demonstrate some of the most basic
“Best Practices”
in creating Power Point presentations.
By Christopher Myers, PH.D.
American Public University
Use a slide design and Be aware of your colors
Power Point presentations have many pre-designed slide designs/templates (like this one) that you can use! Click on the Design tab to get started or select something from online.
Generally, darker backgrounds are better, although a light or white background can be designed very well. White text on black (this presentation) is easier to read than black text on white . . . As long as you have good contrast, you’ll be okay.
For advanced users, you can use a photograph or even an online image for a slide design.
Speaker’s notes!
For academic presentations, it is important to consider “Speaker’s Notes”
which will appear to you the speaker at the bottom of the presentation,
but not to the audience in Slide Show mode.
Speaker’s notes appear here. It is important to have them for every slide for academic presentations. These do not have to be in full MLA or APA style, but they can appear here as notes, highlights, outlines, and anything that would appear helpful to the presenter. Normally, the presenter will have a page with each slide on it, as well as the notes on it, and will go through these as he/she progresses through the presentation.
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Graphics/visual aids
Click on “Insert” and “Pictures” or another category! Creative Commons is good, and you can upload your own photos, etc. This image was found by going to Insert > Online Pictures > search “Professor” and selecting a Creative Commons licensed image. You can insert text boxes for different portions of your slide.
Narrated slides
One good way to accentuate your presentation is to narrate your slides with short audio clips that you make yourself. These should be 1 - 2 minutes long. Click on the audio image below and listen!
Much longer than one minute per slide will increase the size your file too much, and we can only upload a maximum file of 50 megabytes in Sakai.
Viewers can click on the audio image to listen in Slide Show mode! You can click on “Insert” and “Audio” to begin!
Embedding video
Note: the following is an example of some advanced formatting guidelines in presentations and does not relate directly to what you want to do with your presentation.
The link goes offsite to youtube, so you don’t have to worry about size of the file issues!
Go to Insert > Video to get started!
Summary
This presentation simply demonstrates some of the “Best Practices” of Power Point presentations, and it is not a substitution for tutorials, or other assignment recommendations, whatever they may be. Here is another resource for best practices!
https://www.slidegenius.com/blog/top-10-best-powerpoint-design-practices/
Hopefully this very short presentation is helpful! Prof. Chris
