You are the

PRESENTATION

We focus too much on reading out the slides

The fear that the audience will miss out

on something

Brain has Limited

PROCESSING POWER

Let’s play a game

UPSIRSFBIJFKNASANATO

If I give you 30 seconds can you remember this

string?

NO?

UPSI RSFB IJF KNA SAN ATO

How about now?

Still hard?

UPS IRS FBI JFKNASA NATO

And now?

Easy right?

And now?

Share ideas not points

Link ideas to tell a story

Number of slidesVs.

Number of points

1 Slide with 10 points=

10 slides with 1 point each

Open

STRONG

Remember, you can't do anything until you

get past the brain's BS filter!

Some strategies for starting strong

HASKINS

25% of smartphone owners of ages 18-44 say they can't recall the last

time their smartphone wasn't next to them.

Meet Fiona

Image Video Audio

Organize Your

INFORMATION

BEGINNING MIDDLE END

Use patterns to manageinformation

Yahoo Pattern Library

Pattern Tap

Polish it

UP

Use quality visuals

Want to depict a team?

Use this

Not this

Use Icons

Experiment withfonts

Font Fabric| Da Font

Use a colour scheme

Adobe Kuler

PowerPoint Inbuilt

PowerPoint is more powerful than

you thought

Yes, these are made inPowerPoint

Everything is a

REMIX

Reverse engineer good designs to suite

your need

An e-learning course inspired by Skype home

Whitespaceis your friend

Some

RESOURCES

Design Inspiration www.creativebloq.com/www.dribbble.com/www.smashingmagazine.com/www.envato.com/www.creativemarket.comwww.designspiration.net

Free Images & Icons www.unsplash.comwww.compflight.comhttp://openphoto.net/http://www.sxc.hu/http://www.morguefile.com/www.iconfinder.comwww.findicons.com

Free Fonts www.dafonts.com

www.fontfabric.com

www.google.com/fonts

www.fontspace.com

www.openfontlibrary.org

Presentation Inspirationswww.slideshare.net

www.noteandpoint.com

www.pitchenvy.com

www.community.articulate.com

Credits Word game: From Read Speeder a free online speed reading course

All images: From www.compfight.com under Creative Commons

Comic example: From http://theoatmeal.com

Cover image: Based on the LineCase –by blaz robar

PowerPoint Graphics: Based on a template by Hub Spot

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