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Best Practices for PowerPoint
- The number one mistake found in PowerPoint presentations is usually the amount of text used in a
- slide. Because they want to deliver more information about a subject, educators fill the slides with
text, even with irrelevant information, leaving no space for images or other visual media. However, according to surveys, when there is a significant amount of text in a presentation, the audience prefers to read it, paying more attention to it rather than to the educator talking.
- When creating a presentation, you must always take into consideration the message you want to
deliver and the needs and personality of your audience. For example, Comic Sans is inappropriate for a business presentation, but it is quite playful when used in a presentation created for primary school students.
- It is up to you what kind of font you will choose, but be careful and choose fonts that are simple,
clean, sharp and easy to read. And always use the same font for all the slides of the presentation.
- Another mistake is the use of bad quality images. In order to save time, educators search through
the Internet for images relevant to the subject, they download and paste them on the slide, caring little for the final outcome. They just add the image next to the text and that is considered as a nice combination of image and text. Wrong. You must spend enough time searching for the most appropriate image and you can gradually develop your own collection of graphics. Bright colors and clear graphics attract the learners' attention whereas low quality images, that sometimes contain even a logo, have the exact opposite result.
- Avoid using together color combinations such as blue and red, white and yellow. You can always
use the pre-installed color themes, in order to save time, or you can experiment and choose the color pairs that you prefer the most.
