PowerPoint

After reading the articles regarding PowerPoint, I noticed a suggestion provided in all three. Each author suggests that you should try to avoid cheesy clip art and large amounts of text when creating a PowerPoint presentation. The articles also warn you not to simply read your slides when you are giving a PowerPoint presentation. After reading the three articles on the class web page, and just from personal experience, I have come up with a list of five guidelines that are important to follow when making a PowerPoint presentation:

1. Use animations/transitions to make your presentation more interesting, but do not use any that are too over the top
2. Use pictures that will grab the audience's attention rather than large amounts of text
3. Choose a color scheme that is aesthetically pleasing and legible
4. Don't just read your slides. Presentors who do this are usually very boring
5. Make sure you spellcheck all of the text in your presentation beforehand