4.3 Visual Aid for Oral Presentations (Design)

Goals: students will be able to...
  • Analyze and evaluate slide design in terms of color schemes, fonts, graphics, animation, and transitional movements
  • Choose appropriate colors, fonts, graphics, animations and transitions for their PPT presentations
  • Create slides that are attractive and clear, and do not distract the audience from the speaker
Task 1: Professional looking vs. not-so-professional looking PPT slides
View the following powerpoint presentation slides (in slideshow mode) and discuss characteristics of each example in terms of layout/background, images, graphics and colors, text, and animations (using PPT Focus Chart):

Task 2: Creating Effective Powerpoint Presentation Slides  
PRESENTATIONS: VISUAL DESIGNS PPT 
VISUAL AID HANDOUT_CHECKLIST
VISUAL AID DESIGN RUBRIC  
Homework: Prepare a final version of Powerpoint presentation slides to submit in your Dropbox. Name it as "Your name_RA Oral Presentation" and put it in your Unit 4 folder.
If you don't know how to embed a Youtube video in your presentation slide, check out this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tnoIKqnd4