I am embarrassed to admit that I had to completely edit my previous powerpoint! I viewed it and it was all wrong when compared to what the Burmark book taught us. The ways I edited my powerpoint included changing the background color to a different tone of grey so it could be serene. I also chose to use yellow and orange for my wording of text because the book described how yellow is the first color seen by our eyes (Burmark, 2011). I also made sure that my titles were aligned on the left, since we read from left to right. I made sure to use a verdana font, which is easier to read and tried to make the size of the letters as large as I could to ensure the audience could see it. I cut out a lot of the words in the slides which I felt were unnecessary. I did not want the audience to be bombarded with wording. There were instances though, where I needed all words to get the point across, so I left those. I inserted graphics, animations of slide introductions, as well as noises to capture the audiences attention with each slide. My previous powerpoint had none of the above "hooks," as Burmark would say. I am very satisfied with my new powerpoint, but still feel it could use more tweaking. I hope to learn new ideas in this course to make my powerpoints the work of an effective presenter!
Burmark,L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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