Wednesday, March 9, 2011

What Not To Do In Powerpoint Presentations

This blog is about what happens to powerpoint presentations if you use them extremely unprofessionally. When giving oral presentations, one should not only effectively presents his information to the class, but also he must captivate the audience with his show so that everything is much more colorful. Otherwise, it would become so boring to the extent that when you hear the word "powerpoint" again, you'd only remember the time when you couldn't stop praying for the presentation to stop that instant. The following are some of the things I hate about bad powerpoint presentations:
  1. Putting complete sentences on the slideshows, and reading out loud from them and ONLY them: Most of the bad powerpoints I've seen have this problem. On the speaker's part, I guess it is a lot less nerve-wrecking to read out from the script when he is infront of a crowd, as opposed to improvising and putting mere short notes on the slideshow. But that makes it super bad and boring. Also, it's kind of an insult to the audience if you just read out from the slides, sentence by sentence because in almost all the cases of presentations, the audience can read all right. So you have to respect them.
  2. Text and graphics flying all over: It looks so unprofessional when texts and graphics are all modified with effects. Serious presentations should have sinple effects with text as well as smooth transitioning slides, nothing too overly conspicuous. Those with less serious content can go fancier, but again nothing too annoying.
  3. Time management of presentations: The speaker should be aware of the time limit he has and try to organize his oral presentation accordingly. I've seen some where the speaker wastes so much time in the beginning, either rumbling or putting in extra information, and then in the end, just roughly touching up on the materials.

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