Based on my experience with the grand opening of Virtualis (see my review), the conference center in Second Life, I’ve put together what I believe to be the first set of guidelines for creating and delivering PowerPoint presentations in Second Life. I’ll add to this as I get more experience. 1. Use a [...]
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A complex presentation may be divided into several sections. In order to help your audience understand where the current slide fits in the whole structure, you can create section markers that appear throughout the presentation. Each slide displays all of the section names, but the current section is bold, or a different color, so [...] Olivia Mitchell, who writes the Speaking about Presenting recently wrote a blog entry, “How to do an agenda slide like Garr Reynolds.” Note: There’s a special offer at the end of this tutorial, so read on! Here’s the presentation, which is posted on slideshare.net. The timeline agenda is on slides 7 through 12. Slides [...] A background that looks great on a PowerPoint slide projected on a screen may not look good when you print it. Why? If you use strong colors in your background, especially dark colors with light text, colors may bleed, or wick, when you print them, especially on an ink jet printer, reducing legibility. [...] Bulleted text elicits a lot of animated, opinionated discussion. I’ve covered the pros and cons of bulleted text and provided some tips for working with, or without, them: * Quickly get rid of bullets * Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points Sometimes, you can’t think of a way to avoid bullets. So, how do you [...] As the co-author of Flash For Dummies, I’m always looking for ways to do in PowerPoint the kind of animation that you can do in Flash. Flash has more sophisticated animation tools, but you can often create surprisingly good results in PowerPoint. This animation was inspired by Nancy Duarte’s book, slide:ology. In Chapter 9, [...] Solomon Schneider, a faculty member at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, Texas, sent me some guidelines for choosing fonts and color to get the highest text legibility. Color Medium-colored text + medium-colored background = low legibility. To obtain the best legibility, choose either a very light font on a very dark background [...] Sometimes you may want to edit a diagram or AutoShape in a way that PowerPoint doesn’t allow. For example, you may have created a complex diagram, such as the flowchart you see here (or any combination of shapes and text). a complex diagram Now you need to make the entire diagram smaller [...] |
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