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Contributors:Lars Soderlund, Dana Lynn Driscoll.
Summary:

This powerpoint resource, broken up into four parts, provides an excellent overview of how to design effective powerpoint presentations.

Designing an Effective PowerPoint Presentation: Quick Guide

This presentation is designed to quickly introduce you into the world of PowerPoint creation. It covers concepts of visual rhetoric, design, and good presentation skills.

Contributors:Lars Soderlund, Dana Lynn Driscoll.
Summary:

This powerpoint resource, broken up into four parts, provides an excellent overview of how to design effective powerpoint presentations.

Part 1: Before You Start

This presentation is designed to help you begin a PowerPoint by clarifying your project’s goals and restraints.

Contributors:Lars Soderlund, Dana Lynn Driscoll.
Summary:

This powerpoint resource, broken up into four parts, provides an excellent overview of how to design effective powerpoint presentations.

Part 2: Design Principles

This presentation is designed to introduce you to simple principles that can be used to create new PowerPoints and to revise existing ones. Basic principles such as these apply to all visual creations, from word processing documents to posters, and will enhance your understanding of what it means to put together an effective visual presentation.

Contributors:Lars Soderlund, Dana Lynn Driscoll.
Summary:

This powerpoint resource, broken up into four parts, provides an excellent overview of how to design effective powerpoint presentations.

Part 3: Practical Guides

The goal of this presentation is to introduce you to the practical tasks involved in creating a PowerPoint project. There are always many methods with which to create PowerPoint presentations, and the ones covered in this document are some of the simplest.