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MAKE
AWESOME
SLIDES
Why you care
How to fix it
1
do you
Care?
1
Pointless.
Giving a
boringPresentation that no one listens to is
Pointless.
People READ
faster than you speak.
That makes you
Pointless.
you
ROCKAnd deserveMoreMONEY
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The PowerPoint
Template Wizard Trap
3 Things about ME
• I don’t take life too
seriously
• I never want to grow up
• I’m bilingual
I love going to the beach
Just look at how blue the water is!
YOU ARE
HERE
The PPT Wizard (Trap!)O People write their presentation here
O Because when they have to present it’s easier to just read off the slide
O But if the audience can read everything you’ll say, then why are you presenting?
O Just send out the slides…
O (You probably already finished reading this before I was able to say this out loud!)
O Or you preferred to listed and didn’t even try to read one work, because let’s be honest, how terrible does this look…
The Rule of Seven (Trap!)
• Have you heard of this rule?
– 7 lines per slide or less?
– 7 words per line or less
• Well it’s a bad idea.
• If you follow this rule
– You’ll get a slide like this
The Rule of Seven (Trap!)
• Do you remember the rule?– 7 lines per slide or less?– 7 words per slide or less
• Well it’s a bad idea.• If you follow this rule
– You’ll get a slide like this
• Oh yeah, but maybe you’ll add this
The Rule of Seven (Trap!)
• Do you remember the rule?– 7 lines per slide or less?– 7 words per slide or less
• Well it’s a bad idea.• If you follow this rule
– You’ll get a slide like this
• Oh yeah, but maybe you’ll add this
How to
it
3 Things about ME
• I don’t take life too
seriously
• I never want to grow up
• I’m bilingual
Serious?
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Bebas
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Alex Brush
Architects Daughter
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Why so serious?
Serious?
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DOIT.
Now,
I love going to the beach
Just look at how blue the water is!
Paradise
Paradise
is the beach.
PARADISE
PARADISE
Paradise
YOU ARE
HERE
I love going to the beach
Just look at how blue the water is!
Why you care
How to fix it
1
RE
PAR
ATION
P
reativity