LS308 Eighteen Awesome PowerPoint Tricks for Effective Presentations
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 22
Tools
International North
PowerPoint is often the basis for much of the training material you use and the eLearning and mLearning content you create, and yet it’s text-heavy, dull, and boring. This is not effective; it results in disengaged students and click-through eLearning.
In this session, see how you can revolutionize your presentations and other training material using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences, with some helpful how-to guides and a collection of awesome PowerPoint tricks. You will see examples of the approaches in real-life training materials across a range of different topics and formats. Get inspiration to apply these ideas to your next training course or presentation.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to delight your audiences with compelling visual slides
- How to manipulate photos within PowerPoint (no need for Photoshop) so that they convey meaning
- How to use animation to tell your story effectively
- How to create, edit, format, and animate live graphs and charts quickly and easily
Audience:
Intermediate to advanced designers, developers, project managers,
and managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Microsoft PowerPoint (2007 and later).
Richard Goring
Director
BrightCarbon
Richard Goring is a director at BrightCarbon, a presentation and eLearning agency. He enjoys helping people create engaging content and communicate effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points.