PowerPoint Tutorials and Tips, Part 2

Here is my second post of the PowerPoint Tutorials and Tips at ellenfinkelstein.com, describing how to harness Powerpoint power to make compelling and memorable presentations. It is the ease of use and sophistication of Powerpoint that has made it a popular visual aid to help better explain ideas and concepts of almost any topic. (Here is the first part of the Powerpoint material from this site.)


PowerPoint Design Principles:
As with any application that helps creating visuals, it is important to follow design principles while creating them. And these tutorials help implement design principles in Powerpoint.
 - Beyond Words
 - Design guidelines for web conferences
 - Simplicity and understatement
 - The importance of design
 - Try design variations
 - Best practices for PowerPoint presentations in Second Life
 - Tell ‘n’ show slide design
 - Put one point on a slide


Craft Memorable Content: Writing & Organizing:
Simplicity has its virtues. Using clear language helps people understand concepts better when presenting them. And this makes it effective as people tend to remember it longer. The tutorials given below will explain how to go about making your presentation more attractive and memorable.
 - Using hyperlinks
 - Expanding one slide into two
 - Organizing content
 - Complete set of PowerPoint tutorials
 - Using a Summary Slide for questions & answers
 - Designing a Web-style presentation
 - Mind Mapping to organize your presentation
 - Repurpose presentations for a kiosk or the Web
 - 3 Components of an effective presentation
 - Create slides from audience input
 - Beyond words
 - Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points
 - Create a quiz in PowerPoint
 - Is PowerPoint evil?
 - Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation
 - Choose titles for a summary slide
 - Base content on your audience
 - Quickly get rid of bullets
 - Tell a story, or where’s the point in all this?
 - Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file
 - Protect slide content
 - Import text from Word or Notepad
 - Choose words for your audience
 - Add relevance with layers of meaning
 - Add notes during a presentation
 - Understand the types of speeches
 - PowerPoint principles for education
 - A good introduction/opener
 - Export all presentation text
 - Create a visual menu
 - Add flexibility with custom shows
 - Use an audience-centered structure
 - How many bullets should I put on a slide?
 - Create a drop-down menu
 - Create a looping introduction
 - Create section markers
 - Do the research!
 - Create a WebQuest in PowerPoint
 - Stay focused with pecha kucha
 - Create a fast-moving presentation
 - Put one point on a slide
 - Use copywriting principles for your presentations
 - Support your statements


Deliver with Confidence:
The key to carry out a good PowerPoint presentation is to rehearse it beforehand. Essentially, telling the audience about the agenda and crafting your presentation to look more like a story does a better job than having to read out content from the slide. These tutorials below help you deal with presenting to a range of audiences, young and old, and how to keep them engrossed throughout.
 - Rehearsing with narration
 - PowerPoint and the Future of Education
 - Making great handouts
 - Creating a slide list
 - Creating a compact list of notes
 - Going to the previous slide when you have text animation (builds)
 - Export the text in a presentation
 - Reduce the size of your presentation files
 - 12 steps to becoming a charismatic speaker
 - Print in black & white or grayscale
 - Play sound or music by passing mouse over an icon (without clicking)
 - Presentation styles
 - Black out the screen and other delivery tips
 - Create a background for printed handouts
 - Manage the process from conception to rehearsal to handouts
 - Keys to being a unique and memorable presenter
 - Start a presentation at a specified time
 - Don’t look at the screen!
 - Create notes as you deliver in PowerPoint 2003
 - Presenting to young audiences
 - Add taped narration to a presentation
 - Public speaking is the number 1 fear — How to beat it
 - Use feedback to complete the communication cycle
 - Life after death by PowerPoint
 - Have a conversation with your audience
 - A good introduction/opener
 - Undim bulleted text
 - Add flexibility with custom shows
 - Put a presentation on a CD that runs automatically
 - Turn off pop-ups when presenting
 - Best practices for PowerPoint presentations in Second Life
 - Importing a PowerPoint presentation into Flash
 - Collect information or feedback
 - Create a game quiz (similar to Jeopardy)
 - Create a timer
 - Display a quarter-size slide show view
 - Guest Expert: Dana Bristol-Smith on “It’s All About Presentation: Eight Lessons from Japan”
 - Guest Expert Suzanne Bates: How to Be Yourself in Front of an Audience
 - Successfully print presentations
 - Ask the audience questions
 - Create a timeline/agenda in PresentationZen style

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