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Presentation Guidelines

Start your presentation with your purpose. The assignment was to find a community event,

program or business to benefit your community in a positive way. An example might be to turn

a vacant lot in your neighborhood into a safe playground for children and their families to enjoy.

This may require research into how the community can acquire the land, who’s property is it, are

back taxes owed, can this be done safely as a benefit to the neighborhood? As in all businesses,

money is a factor. You will need to provide options on how to pay for any items needed. Using

the vacant lot, I would need to do a property search, talk to the owner, see if they would be

willing to donate or sell at a small fee, price equipment, arrange a volunteer list, plan a meeting

and so forth.

The main idea of this project should be, “How can I make a difference?”

What I will be grading on:

Time No less than 4 minutes and no more than 10 minutes

Slides Quantity 8-12

Quality Using tips or Chapter 12 (too wordy, unclear, spelling, punctuation, etc.)

Order This would be if your slides are in the same order as your speech. Flow.

Originality Anything done to be different or to draw attention to the presentation.

Presentation

No points are deducted for nervousness, please practice before your presentation so

you will be more comfortable when presenting. I am looking for your ability to convince

the audience that your community project will make a difference. Know your topic and

bring that knowledge to us.

Research and Documentation

Not everything is researchable, but if you made an attempt to get information and

brought some data it will work on your behalf.

TOTAL POINTS 50

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1. INTRO SLIDE:

 Title of presentation, date, presenter name

2. OUTLINE SLIDE:

1. Main points of what you will talk about

2. Then follow the structure you’ve laid out

3. Start broad, finish specific

4. Rank Information (What NEEDS to go on the slide)

5. Simplify

3. CONTENT SLIDES:

1. Cover detailed information based on your outline

2. As many slides as you need, as many as 1-2 per minute

3. Remember Powerpoint is more visual than verbal: “a picture is worth a thousand words”

4. FINAL SLIDE:

1. Audience will likely take away the last thing you say

2. So make a point to have the last slide be meaningful

o provide contact information for followup?

o pose a question for discussion?

o finish with a joke/or light hearted conclusion?

TEXT:

1. Highlight your presentation, don’t create a substitute for it

2. Bullet points, not complete sentences

3. 4-6 points per page

4. No large blocks of text, audience stops listening, and reads

5. Consider showing one point at a time, using animation

o helps the audience focus on what you are saying

IMAGES:

1. Avoid clip art… everyone has seen it before, lacks emphasis

2. Images should be good: not pixilated, out of focus, too dark

3. Cropped to remove distractions

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GRAPHS/DIAGRAMS:

1. Make them as simple as possible

2. To be grasped in just a few moments, not studied at length

TEMPLATES:

1. Use a consistent background and layout for all slides

2. The template sets the tone of your presentation

3. choose it carefully

4. Avoid really bright backgrounds, or cluttered layouts

FONTS:

1. Choose two at most, nothing cursive or ornamental

2. Stick to sans-serif fonts, for legibility

3. Minimum of 18 point, 20 to 24 is better

4. Main points/titles bigger than subpoints/content

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COLOR:

1. High contrast dark on light, or light on dark

2. Use color with care, to emphasize your talk

3. Avoid extremely bright colors, hot pink, neon orange, acid green

4. Do not combine red/green, yellow/purple, or blue/orange

Presentation hints :

1. Practice your presentation

2. Make eye contact with your audience

3. Do not read the slides to your audience

4. Leave time for Q&A at the end

5. Don’t forget to summarize your main points

6. Use Powerpoint to enhance your talk