Question

1. Describe a PowerPoint presentation that you had to sit through. Describe what made the presentation good, bad or ugly?
2. Describe five tips that should be followed to create the perfect PowerPoint presentation. Please cite the sources you use (if any).

Answer 1

Hello,

Please find below for my explanation. Please let me know if any changes required.

Good Presentation:
I used to attend mostly technical(Programming languages) presentations as part of my career. Here I am taking one presentation that I had attended some time before as an example i.e. Angular 2.0 presentation. Angual is a front end programming language. I felt that it was one of the good presentation I had attended because it was prepared with proper content that was made audience can understand the basics of the language easily. And the one who delivered presentaion has good knowledge about the topic and he was able to explained in and outs of the content. And throughout the presentation, I observed that consistency in slides in terms of font styles, font sizes and slide template. And used proper animations and images that describes the content.

Bad presentaion:
I feel presentaion is bad when there is no proper content OR overloaded the unnecessary content in the slides of the presentaion OR Speaker does not have enough knowledge on the topic. Even presentaion is prepared with proper font styles, sizes and themes I believe content has the highest priority.

Ugly presentaion:
If there is no proper content OR speaker does not have enough knowledge on topic OR there is not consistency between slides then we can treat it as ugly presentaion.

Tips to create perfect presentation:
1. Develiver the content
   a) Know the concept as much as possible. Before creating slides, gain knowledge about the the concept.
   b) Write down the key points about the topic in a document.
   c) Highlight and identify the most important points from your document.
   d) Prepare slides with content as simple as possible and explain the slides with detailedinformation during presentation.
2. Keep it simple and consistent
   a) Make sure objects and content in slides are aligned properly.
   b) Use templates to have consistency across slides.
   c) Maintain consistency across slides in terms of font type, font stypes and sizes.
   d) Use high quality images and graphs to illustrate the content.
   e) Use appropriate fonts and colors.
   f) Limit your words on slides. Avoid overloading of content is slides.
3. Know about audience
   a) Know your audience. Means audience knowledge about the topic.
   b) Audience desire and expectation about the presentation.
4. Practice presentation like Rehearse
   a) Practice before you meet audience.
   b) While practicing, experiment with pauses, gestures and body language.
   c) While practicing, deliver the content to your fried OR in front of mirror.
5. Deliver the content within time
   a) Most important thing is to deliver the content within time. Allocate significant time to sub topics. To achieve it practice with a timer.