POWERPOINT PRESENTATION TIPS
RSVP
Lesson #13: Tips for a Successful Senior Project
PowerPoint
Know Your Audience
Your audience is:
Educators, business
professionals and community
members
Presentation First, PowerPoint Second
Building Outline
• Take a piece of paper and list the key pieces needed to
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build an outline for your presentation.
Using the Reflection & Self-Assessment in the Senior
Project Handbook on page 33 develop an outline for your
speech
Also see page 38 for sample outlines
Design an outline from these questions and reflections
Type your outline into a word document and save it in
your documents
On the next slide you will learn how to insert an outline
into your PowerPoint
Inserting Your Outline
• Open Microsoft PowerPoint and save a blank PowerPoint
naming it : Senior Project Presentation- Last Name
• Re-open it and follow the directions:
• On the Home tab click the “New Slide”
• In the drop down from New Slide select “Slides from Outline”
• In your documents select the outline you created for this
assignment and click “insert”
• You should see each of the outline topics on their own slide
• Look how easy this is!!
Use PowerPoint as a Visual Aid
Fact: The purely visual portion of your PowerPoint
presentation will be responsible for 55% of the
impact you have on audience, compared to the
38% in regards to things you say, and 7% of text
you quote on each slide [source: Price].
Job Shadowing Various Healthcare
Positions
“Everyone should have health insurance? I
say everyone should have health care. I'm
not selling insurance.”
― Dennis Kucinich
Rehearsed Timings
PowerPoint Tips
1. Keep it simple
2. Select a theme or colors that are easy to the eye
3. Keep all slides consistent
4. Use images on slides and type your speech in the notes
of each slide
5. If you type bullet points you want to cover follow the rule
below:
• Use the 4 x 5 rule: Four bullets with no more than five words
• No more than 10 slides in presentation (you only have 7-11 minutes)
• Use animations sparingly
• Keep it legible and make sure your fonts and colors are easily seen by
audience
• Proofread, proofread, proofread
Practice, Practice, Practice
• Don’t let your PowerPoint hinder your presentation
• Make sure that you have practiced with PowerPoint as if
you were presenting
• If you have any questions or concerns about recording
your PowerPoint for this assignment please contact me
via email @ suzie.downs@camas.wednet.edu not through
Schoology!
• Do not start this lesson at the last minute or you will be
sorry. I have spent a lot of time building this PowerPoint
lesson and have rehearsed it several times.