presentation building

Presentation Dos, Don’ts, and Whys

UROP Event Planning Team

(808) 956-7492 urop@hawaii.edu http://manoa.hawaii.edu/urop

Unless you really want to

Use Annoying Colors

Crazy FontsJuly 8, 2010: Lebron James jumps

ship from Cavs to Heat

Later that night: Cavs owner, Dan

Gilbert, writes scathing letter,

blogs it…

In Comic Sans Font

July 9, 2010: More people talking

about font than content

Are you thinking, “I’m a scientist. I would never do that!”

CERN’s Higgs Boson Presentation

July 4, 2012

Presentation of groundbreaking

research results that may reshape

how we view the universe

Also in Comic Sans

Is it worth losing your message?

Times New Roman (Serif) Corbel or Arial (Sans Serif)

• Used in digital media

• Auto adjust of typeset

• No running together

• Used in printed material

• Offsets block effect of

typeset

• May lead to less legible

presentation on digital

media

Crazy Fonts: Serif vs. Sans Serif

• Do NOT force your audience to choose

between reading and listening

• 6- words per line (if that)

• 6 X 6 bullet rule

1 thought per line

6 words per line

6 lines per slide

• Text to time ratio

Too Much Text

This is point 8

This is point 9

This is point 10

This is point 12

This is point 18

This is point 20

This is point 24

This is point 36

This is point 48

This is point 72

Font Point

It’s normally invisible

All the coding from the rest of the

text is in the little bastard

There is NO way to show it in

PowerPoint

Do not cut and paste

The absolute evil of(the pilcrow)

• Reading your slides

• Generic clipart

• Mistake your presentation for a cartoon

• Talk like a robot

• Move like a robot

• Dance like a robot

• Poor transitions

Other Rookie Mistakes

• Reading your slides

• Generic clipart

• Mistake your presentation for a cartoon

• Talk like a robot

• Move like a robot

• Dance like a robot

• Poor transitions

• Only using text

Other Rookie Mistakes

Forget that PowerPoint is your secondary. It is there to reinforce your verbal

presentation, not replace it.

The Biggest Mistake

No, seriously, do this stuff !

Blank slide

Title slide

Content

• Section header

• Title and content

• Two content

• Comparison

Plan your layout

Thank you slide

Citations

Questions

Title slide again

Blank Slide

Introduction

Background

Intellectual merit

Thesis

Methods

Greater implications

Preliminary results

Ending

Plan your organization

Thank You

Questions?

Presentation Dos, Don’ts, and Whys

UROP Event Planning Team

(808) 956-7492 urop@hawaii.edu http://manoa.hawaii.edu/urop