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Some Powerpoint Approaches • • Traditional Pecha kucha (peh-chah’-k-chuh) Interactive Dialog (dancing with Powerpoint) Creating Presentations

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Content • How much? • Organized how? • Optimum stickiness? Creating Presentations

“Less is more. ” Creating Presentations

• If you want to sound like an expert you should make sure that you have included everything. • Put in complex charts graphs, and images too, so they can really appreciate and understand just how much work you have done. • The information should be written in detail and text should always fill the slide. • Read it to the audience so you know they are getting it and won’t miss anything. • Prove that you remember all the details by including any bits and pieces you can squeeze into your allotted time. • Make sure all of your thoughts and ideas are there, and it will be a fine presentation. Creating Presentations

• If you want to sound like an expert you should make sure that you have included everything. • Put in complex charts, graphs and images, too, so they can really appreciate much work you have done. The information should be written in detail and text should always fill the and understand just how • slide. the audience so you know they are getting it and won’t • Read it to miss anything. • Prove that you all the details by including pieces you can squeeze into your allotted time. • Make sure all presentation. remember any bits and of your thoughts and ideas are there, and it will be a fine Creating Presentations

Traditional, or, “Darth Vader Method” Creating Presentations

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“Less is more. ” Creating Presentations

“Good presentations tell a story. ” Creating Presentations

Introduction Key Points Conclusions Creating Presentations

Introduction • Statement of topic • What is interesting? • Your motivation • Your key points Creating Presentations

Key Points • Pick 2 to 3 • Introduce, Support, Recap • Active voice, not passive Creating Presentations

Conclusions • Brief recap • Implications or next steps • Connect to introduction Creating Presentations

“Tell ’em what you’ll tell ’em, tell ’em what you told ’em. ” Creating Presentations

• How much? “Less is more. ” • Organized how? “Tell a story. ” • Stickiness? Reiterate. “Tell ’em…. ” Creating Presentations

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Design • Color, balance, elements • Simplicity works • Choose images/graphs wisely Creating Presentations

Presentations and Posters Workshop

Mechanism of Dehydrocoupling Waterman, R. Organometallics, 2007, 26, 2492. Creating Presentations

Or no words at all… pecha kucha (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) Creating Presentations

19 th Century Changes: Vermont Split Town Names

U. S. Census, 1850. Colchester, Vermont

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Interactive, or, “Yoda Method” Creating Presentations

“Luke, write your own destiny you must. ” Creating Presentations

What are your favorite tips? Creating Presentations

Dialog, or, “dancing with ppt” Creating Presentations

As we watch this performance pay particular attention to these questions: • What does the speaker do when a new slide appears? • How are bullet points used in this example? • Is there a pattern to his presentation? (Introduction, reiterative explication, etc. ) Creating Presentations

“Your slides are not your presentation; you are your presentation. ” Creating Presentations

Summary • Content • Focus on the key points • Have a beginning, middle and end • Reiterate • Design • Simplicity, consistency • Clear, appropriate graphs/images • Performance • Practice • Memorize first sentences • Connect Creating Presentations

Questions? hope. greenberg@uvm. edu And thanks go to: Rory Waterman, UVM, for the chemistry slide. Garr Reynolds for Star Wars images and inspiration. Creating Presentations