The Truth About PowerPoint

I learned many new things concerning PowerPoint presentations from these three articles. The article "Really Bad PowerPoint and How to Avoid it" was a very useful article. I found it funny that the good examples for Microsoft slides are exactly what you do not want to do. I also found it funny that reading off your slides was considered the kiss of death.
These are my five most important guidelines for your power point presentation.
1. Do not have to much information on your page. The audience doesn't want to spend the whole time reading paragraphs on your slide. It also takes away from the attention you get during your presentation.

2. Do not use fonts in which it is hard to read because of the style or color. You don't want to make the audience spend time trying to read your slides.

3. Do not use clip art. At a serious level nothing says unprofessional more than clip art.

4. Do not use slide transitions in which it takes twenty minutes to get all of the information visable on your slide. The audience doesn't want to have to wait for your slide to appear.

5. Do not use to many sounds or other audio. This also makes your presentation seem childish and unprofessional.

Make it simple and full of interesting visual aids that have to do with your presentation.