While reading through the articles about PowerPoint problems and tips for a good presentation, they started to bring back memories of all of the old presentations that I had created thus far for any number of reasons in school, at home, or just for fun. Playing with all the sounds, animations, transitions, and backgrounds was a blast and the more you threw into it the higher grade you got!
It's funny to think about listening to all of our class's presentations in retrospect because the only one awake was the one presenting at the time. Through all the laser sounds, typewriter effects, spinning slides coming into view, I never remembered what any were about as soon as I left the room. There always seemed to be a pattern of one slide filled from top to bottom with tons of words and bullet points that the presenter would just read as the clicking of the typewriter went letter by letter, and then the next slide contained a bunch of stick figure clip art people doing some ridiculous animations.
After pondering the subject for a while the main things I took to heart were:
1. No Clip Art (at least most of the time)
2. Keep it simple in everything you do, text & charts
3. Make sure to get quality photos and do not expand them for fear of pixelation
4. No crazy animations that involve annoying sounds
5. YOU ARE THE ONE THEY CAME TO SEE, NOT THE SLIDES
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