Guidelines for Presentations
(PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.)
Use and abuse of PowerPoint
- The use and abuse of PowerPoint in Teaching and Learning
- Article critizing abuse of PowerPoint (CSUN Daily Sundial)
Your presentations should be
- logically structured
- instructionally sound
- easy to navigate, and should
- include the following features:
- all supporting files should be in the same folder as the PowerPoint file
- relevant graphics
- relevant movies and/or audio recordings (if available)
- links to relevant websites
- link to an offline web archive that you have downloaded
- links to a Word (.doc) or Excel (.xls) file to allow you to write notes while giving the presentation.
- useful text and graphics animations
- navigation buttons and named pages
- instructional notes