A PowerPoint that displays both good and bad practices of making a PowerPoint.

1. By Bethany Gladding

2.  Good contrast has words that work well with
the background. Dark and light.

3.  Bad contrast is when the font color clashes with
the background or are not readable.
 Bad contrast is also when the background is too
busy

4.  Good word transition are not distracting
 They still can be animated as long as it is
interesting

5.  Bad word transitions are abrupt, distracting,
and hard to read.
 By the time the words are available, the talker
would already be onto the next slide

6.  This is how the object transitions into the page,
it should not be distracting.

7.  Bad object transitions are distracting

8.  Bullet points should be concise
 Use enough to be useful

9.  Bad
 Bullet
 Points
 Break
 Up
 Thoughts
 When word amount is abused slides become
distracting and over stimulating. They are over
wordy and ramble look there is a squirrel and a
bunny, a kitten, a mouse, a horse, and a student,
and another student, and another student

10.  The Background should not be overly
distracting
 The size and style of font should be
appropriate and consistent

11.  A bad background is
distracting, andthe
words can getlost
Inconsistentsize and font can
make the slide confusing

12.  Graphics should be simple
 Do not over clutter slides with images
 Do not use complicated graphics

13.  Bad graphics are distracting
 Poorly placed
 Have little to do with the content

14. Good lists are:
 Precise
 Pithy
 Contain no more than three items

15. Bad Lists are:
 Wordy, or in other words they contain WAY too many words
 Contains too much info
 Distracting
 They seem to go on
 And on
 And on
 And on
 And on
 You never know when they will stop
 How about now?
 Or now?
 Now?
 Yes now