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Applying effective teaching and learning techniques to. Text o maximum five lines of text per slide o no more than 2025 words per slide o mix upper and lower case letters o slides should not contain complete sentences o use short bullets that emphasize or reinforce what you are discussing. Powerpoint is a readily available and most popular tool for teaching in some lessdeveloped countries. Evaluation of an audience response system for the continuing education of health professionals. It doesnt matter who your audience is or what it is youre presenting theyll be able to tell if your slides are lacking any rhyme or reason.
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An assessment of student preferences for powerpoint. Powerpoint presentations should contain no more than 10 slides to be effective. A common mistake speakers make when designing powerpoint presentations is being too passionate about it that they put everything they know into it. Designing effective powerpoint presentations an easy to follow stepbystep tutorial outlining everything you need to know about powerpoint starting from scratch. Power point for presentations important tips international.
It doesnt matter who your audience is or what it is youre presenting theyll be able to tell if. The key to effective presentation is preparation, preparation and preparation ie. Once youve got some slides created get some feedback. May 08, 2014 hopefully, these three elements should be able to point you to the right direction in creating an effective powerpoint presentation. Preparation phase 2 powerpoint features and presentation. Twelve tips for using a computerized interactive audience response system. Ej557498 twelve tips for effective powerpoint presentations for. Twelve tips for using a computerised interactive audience.
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