Powerpoint Presentations: From You, to Your Visual

Doing presentations has become trickier than usual. Too many images in it and presentations are pegged distracting. Too many texts in it and your audience will prefer to reading than listening. Powerpoint presentations have been constantly upgraded to accommodate the latest online freebies in background, layout, et cetera; yet it doesn’t give students a firm grasp on the necessary balance of image and text, visual and audio.

For all of these presentation dilemmas, below are some helpful guidelines in keeping you and your Powerpoint presentations interesting and well-aligned:

1. Manage your images and texts. Start by making a list of presentation priorities. After the tedious job of putting everything in the slides, check it again with your list. In the course of such measure, you might find things that need not be presented or that doesn’t coincide with the rest of the slides.

2. After your visuals, check on your audio: that means you. Apart from making your Powerpoint presentations ready, you must make certain that you, the presenter, is equally ready. In fact, in the list of presentation priorities, you as the presenter should be number one. A very good presentation will never make sense with an unprepared presenter.

3. Check for compatibility – in everything. Is your presentation saved in a format compatible with any PC or laptop? Is the tone of your presentation highly apt with the topic? Are you addressing your audience best with just your voice, or does it require the reinforcement of facial expressions, hands, or body?

After all the research, preparation, and pep talk, students should perform. They must do all their efforts justice by aiming to successfully apply everything in presentation. At the end, nothing beats the tiresome activities with a bunch of satisfied people -- instructor, the audience and you, the presenter.

Tips for Creating Assigned Reports

It is typical for students to be assigned to write a certain report and present it to the class a day or days after the assignment was given. Compared to other assignments that just need to be submitted after a certain period, an assigned report could be quite taxing and needs ample preparations. Here are some tips that could help you face assignments like this.

1. Make sure that you understand all the instructions given by your professor with regards to the assignment. Ask for clarifications on some details of the given instructions. Asks for possible problems that may prop out during the preparation process.

2. Plan all the tasks and activities necessary to accomplish the assignment. Plan on how the relevant information will be obtained. Plan on how to write your assignment. Plan on how you will create Powerpoint presentations.

3. Obtain information only from reliable sources. Time is of the essence when creating this type of assignment, thus it may better to conduct an intensive research rather than an extensive one.

4. If it seems that you do not know how to proceed with the assignment, you could get assignment examples that would serve as guides when you are writing yours.

5. It is advisable to create Powerpoint presentations for your assignment if you are going to report it in front of the class. Through Powerpoint presentations, the class would have an easier time retaining what you discussed in your report.

6. After writing your assignment and report, review them so as to make sure that it is void of mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammar.

7. When reporting in front of the class, do not read the PowerPoint presentation. If you read the slides, it would seem that you are not the one who wrote your assignment.
   
   
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Using Powerpoint Presentations for Essay Writing Lessons

The powerpoint presentations or power point presentation is a brand of presentation program consisting of a computer software that displays information as a slide show. A common use of powerpoint  presentations are in academic settings such as the classrooms, gymnasiums, computer laboratories and science laboratories for primary schools and secondary schools, and in lecture halls for universities and colleges. The powerpoint presentations has become a supplementary visual aid in teaching lessons together with typeset slides, blackboards or whiteboards, and overhead projectors.

There are several advantages in using powerpoint pesentations as visual aids for teaching students such as the easy steps that enable teachers or lecturers in learning to use powerpoint within a short time. In addition, the presentation content could combine dynamic text, animation, graphics, and other visuals that could make a lesson on Powerpoint very interesting and engaging for the students so they would not be bored during the lesson.

Many lecturers from universities and colleges would now discuss a lesson on essay writing with the use of the powerpoint presentation as the supplement visual aid together with the traditional visual aids such as whiteboards and overhead projectors that are commonly used in lecture halls. A lesson on the basic tips on how to perform research and write an essay could be more effective for students if the powerpoint presentation as a supplement visual aid.

For example, essays that involve subject areas that have many discussions on categories and sub-categories, field and sub-fields, and a comprehensive topical outline of the subject could be discussed or taught more efficiently to a class or large audience of students if the powerpoint presentations are used as the supplement visual aids together with other educational or teaching visual aids.

A good example is the discipline of business as a major course taught in universities or colleges. The business essays are researched and written by students taking up various courses in or related to business such as accountancy, business science, business administration, commerce, economics, management, marketing, and other courses related to business.

A lecturer teaching some lessons about the process for researching and writing a business essay could be teaching many students from those courses so that he could possible use the same lesson for the same group of students. Therefore, the lecturer would have an easier time to discuss his lesson on the research and writing process for a business essay if he uses a powerpoint presentation program as a supplement visual aid together with a whiteboard and an overhead projector.