Slide deck from recent presentation in my grad school class, Delivering Training. Teaching fellow trainers-in-training how to give better presentations. Watch video from April 13 training session recorded on April 15, 2009 at http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Viewer/?peid=b4d26217a51d4084882eca5dcbd0f1b6
Text of New Rules For Power Point Presentations (Revised)
Presentation Slide Design for the Non-Designer The New Rules of Presentations Christina Quick Henderson PYTD 510, Delivering Training Title Inspired by Robin Williams, The Non-Designers Design Book
1) What is your past training using PowerPoint (or Apple Keynote)? 2) Based on your experience at work or school, what are the traditional rules for using PPT?
an inconvenient truth Al Gore
New Rules of Presentations 1) Design Right-Brained Slides. 2) Tell Stories. 3) Use Pictures.
Great Book!
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Left -Brained Slides
People cant listen and read effectively at the same time.
Watching presenters read directly from their slides is really, really boring.
Slide after slide of bulleted text puts people to sleep.
Garr Reynolds calls this Death By Powerpoint.
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Rule #1 Design Right-Brain Slides
Read Me!
Photo: Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette Rule #2 Tell Stories
Buy Me!
Rule #3 Use Pictures
Vision trumps all other senses.
Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.
Show Faces
Find Beauty
Downsized Dramatize
Use Surprise
Be Funny Image by Kathy Sierra, via Creating Passionate Users Blog
2% of the world owns 50% of the wealth. Use a Metaphorical Image
The poorest 50% of the world The poorest 50% of the world owns 1% of the wealth.
New Rules of Presentations 1) Design Right-Brained Slides. 2) Tell Stories. 3) Use Pictures.
Principles of Graphic Design for the Non-Designer The New Rules of Presentations Part II Christina Quick Henderson Coming Soon! PYTD 510, Delivering Training Title Inspired by Robin Williams, The Non-Designers Design Book
