Guiding Principles for Preparing Powerpoint Presentation

November 7, 1:30pm - 2:30am
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall Add to Calendar

A workshop designed to provide some guiding principles to improve your Powerpoint presentations. Among the topics to be discussed:

  • Basic “slide” parameters, including use of “safe zones”
  • Content editing
  • Utilizing templates and master slides
  • Typography, including Hawaiian typography
  • Effective use of color
  • Charts, graphs, photographs and illustrations, including the use of UH/UH Manoa logos and trademarks

The workshop will also include:

  • Discussion on the effects of various projection systems and presentation aspect ratios
  • Effects of different lighting conditions on PowerPoint presentations
  • PowerPoint “bells and whistles,” including the use of builds and transitions, audio and video files
  • Web resources
  • Question and answer session
  • Tech Thursdays is a beginner’s series of 50-minute clinics covering a variety of technology related tools for the classroom and other professional uses.


    Event Sponsor
    Center for Teaching Excellence, Mānoa Campus

    More Information
    (808) 956-9567, cte@hawaii.edu, http://www.cte.hawaii.edu/events.html

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