PowerPoint 2007’s shadows are so much better than 2003’s. Tags: Image In this video lesson, I show you how to use all the settings. And it’s a contest with free prizes! Listen to the video! Do you prefer video

If you’re telling a story to make your point, then the image can relate to that story. Charts and graphs My recommendation is not to import these directly from Excel into PowerPoint. Create your chart in PowerPoint and only include the numbers which are required to make your point. It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it). BTW, if you’ve downloaded and read my Presentation Planning Guide , you’ll see that this slide

Watch the video below on Youtube. Presenting large While most of us do not have the skills or tools to create a video like this, many people can actually present live to similar visual displays that they create themselves using only off-the-shelf tools like PowerPoint or Keynote (and photo-editing software). It's all actually quite simple: Big type and large full-bleed images (and great ideas; that's the hard part). Here's yet another example of combining imagery, text, animation, and audio to make an impact in a short amount of time. This

This is Your Brain on PowerPoint.  When it comes to experiencing a PowerPoint presentation, there's only so much your brain can process. We're seeing more PowerPoint slides with simple images and minimal words. The current PowerPoint design fashion vogue is overly simplistic, and panders almost completely to the right side of the brain. Our brains have 2 lobes. Loosely speaking, the left handles data, facts, and analysis.

Research carried out by Stephen Mahar, Ulku Yaylacicegi and Thomas Janicki found that students who were shown an animated PowerPoint slideshow learnt less than those that saw a non-animated slideshow. When I first read of the research on Science Daily Could PowerPoint presentations be stifling learning? The PowerPoint custom animation they used I thought that simple, non-distracting animations that brought in slide elements one at a time as I verbally introduced them was helpful. I

For example, including this Dilbert strip in a presentation about creating better PowerPoint slides: Communication and learning works best using a combination of images and narrative Tags: Powerpoin I was reviewing a technical presentation for a client. The topic was the latest dental procedures.

Will PowerPoint presentations make the kitschy cut? After all, there's a certain black velvet quality to many PowerPoint presentations... ...as There's no sense having a clipart-y, cluttered, bullet point-y, totally 1990's Microsoft-kitsch PowerPoint presentation if you don't drive it home by, say, swaggering like Johnny Depp in Pirate of the Caribbean. What's Kitsch? Kitsch is a black velvet painting.

Using social media tools like Twitter , you can play a game of "Logical Fallacy Bingo" as you watch slick presenters play fast and loose with the rules of logic. Here's how to play: Just for grins, let's cover some examples of logical fallacies that we often hear about PowerPoint -- the tool many love to hate. Doctors use X-rays and MRI images as diagnostic aids. Use emotion to connect to your audience. It's important.

You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. Suggest that they also have hard-copy notes (which is a useful back-up for technology failure anyway) and that they gradually transition from using their Powerpoint slides as their notes to using their hard-copy notes. After weaning themselves off their But everyone else in your organization stubbornly sticks to the bullet-point slides. How can you persuade them to change their minds?

After giving a talk last night in which I used a lot of images and very little text, one of the participants emailed me with the following question: “Dear Gavin, I How do I insert photos in a PowerPoint presentation and yet keep the file size down? For Powerpoint 2003: [link]  For I attended you very helpful presentation at the Basingstoke Country Park Hotel yesterday.