Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation

[kayla2004]

hi everyone, i am currently in the uk and doing a full gnvq in i.t, for one of my assesments i have to create a good powerpoint presentation for younger students about my school, i was wondering if anyone knew where i could get some free powerpoint templates to make it look a bit better or knew of anything else that might get the wow factor for my assesment,

any help would be much appreciated

 

[mundane]

I'm not sure about the templates, but I can offer some advice on what NOT to do. I don't recognize what a gnvq is right off, so this advice may not apply ...

Please, for the love of God, do NOT include animated .gifs on every page.

For that sake of all that is good in this world, do not include the damn typewriter effect for the text and the corresponding sounds. It looses its novelty after the first slide, and then just becomes a PITA to sit through the animation.

Use the slides to only summarize your points - don't read word for word.

Those are my major annoyances with people giving presentations in a business / university level setting. You mentioned "younger students" at your school, so perhaps if it is the equivalent of American "High School", the audience might get a kick out of the animations and sounds. Most of it has to do with targeting your audience. For me I like clean, concise, and consistent. Diagrams are nice if they add content or summarize ideas. Pictures are ok if they are relevant.

I did a quick google of powerpoint templates:

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Some of them look decent. Good luck.

-Josh

 

[kayla2004]

thanks for the help, i now know what to use and what not. It seems that i should taake a look at my audience and base my presentation around that......


thanks again

 

[arsbanned]

OK, let's all give diegoalcatraz a big hand! Woooooo. That's what it's all about. Good advice.

*thumbs up*