• Need to present (not read) your presentation

• Layout and design
  • While the abovelink leds to a discussion of posters, the theory of layout and deesign is the same for presentations
• Structure
• A Title Page will be the first page, and bibliography page will be the last page
• Bibliography (French, bibliothèque means Library; Spanish La biblioteca means Library): The "library" (grouping) of material I looked at to write a paper.
• So a bibliography is not a works cited. A Bibliography is everything you read to make a paper
• Approximate MLA style for the citations in the bibliography. I won't be overly picky, but make it look like a works cited.
• Don't double space the works cited, cram all of them, even if in tiny font, onto one slide
• Between the title page and the bibliography should be the following sections:
  1. Introduction
  2. Early Life
  3. Education
  4. Career/job
  5. Publications/Videos
  6. Idea or Concept
• Words per frame
• No less than 5 words; no more than 30 words
• Bullets
• Only use bullets if you have more than one item in a list
• Do not center the text with bullets; bullets should be vertically in a line.
• DO NOT use hyphens as bullets: Use hyphens only to connect two words
• Quotes
• Any quotes must be on their own slides.
• Read the quote word for word to us.
• No need for images on Quote slides
• No full sentences
• Use fragmented bullet points
• (except for quote slides, which need to be full sentences and quotes)
• No Reading at us
• The only time you should, and must, read is on the quote slides
• Subheads
• Each frame should have a subhead: see the enumerated list above of subhead sections
• Font sizes and colors
• 2/2 rule
• At all times try to restrict font types to one or two types throughout the powerpoint
• At all times try to restrict color of fonts to one or two colors throughout the powerpoint
• Images
• Images must pertain to the subject or theory of the slide
• Every frame must have one image, either as part of the template or as an embedded image.
• Do not use the same image for every slide; if your template is the same image, you'll need unique images for each slide
• Sound effects
• None. Don't use them.
• You may use videos with sound
• Transitions
• Things appear and things disappear
• Spelling
  • Spelling errors for words that powerpoint would have caught with its spellchecker
• Clarity of text
  • Post-It Note Test
  • Hold a 3" x 3" Post-It note at arm's length and step back from your PC until the Post-It is the same size as the screen. If you cannot read the screen clearly, the font size or font color (compared to the background) needs changed.
• People's Names
• Use google or youtube to learn how to pronounce names appropriately.