Making Your BAD Presentation GOOD

Google Presentation Directions

1. Choose a "bad" slide that you want to make into a "great" slide. (Do not choose your title slide)

2. Delete the title slide and the slide that you are not correcting.

3. In your Google Presentation - Go to EDIT>DUPLICATE.  This will make a copy of your "bad" slide.

4. Correct one copy of the "bad" slide and make it "great".

5. Print out both slides on one paper

     A.Go to FILE>PRINT SETTINGS AND PREVIEW.

     B. Choose HANDOUT- 2 SLIDES PER PAGE from the drop down menu at the top of the page.

     C. Click PRINT in the upper right corner.

     D. Write your name on your paper.

     E. Circle and label the things that made your slide "bad".

     F. Hand in your paper.

Complete the follow up questions to this activity on the back of your slides:

     1. List the rules that you broke when you made your bad presentation

     2. Which rule do you think is the hardest to follow when you make a good presentation?  Explain in detail why you think that rule is hard to follow.

POWERPOINT DIRECTIONS

These directions are for those working in Power Point.  If you are working in Keynote, the directions will be different. 

1. Choose ONE slide from your bad Power Point that you want to make good.  You will correct this slide.

2. Make a new copy of your presentation - Go to FILE, SAVE AS and save it as "GOOD Pres- Your Name".  Save it to the desktop.

3. Decide which slide you want to fix in the Good Presenation. 

4. In the Good Presentation - delete the slides you do not want to fix.  Go to EDIT, DELETE SLIDE.

5. At this point you should only have one bad slide in the GOOD presentation.

6. Make a duplicate of that slide.  Go to INSERT, DUPLICATE SLIDE.

7. You should have a 2 copies of your bad slide in the GOOD presentation..

8. Correct the SECOND slide in the GOOD Presentation.  Do not correct the first slide in the GOOD presentation.  This slide should be left as “bad” for comparison to the corrected, good slide.

9. Print your slides (2 on one page). Use arrows and words to point out corrections on the slides with a pen or pencil.

10. Answer this quesiton on the back of your paper:

     What do you think is the hardest "rule" to follow when making a presentation? 

     Explain why you think this.  Be detailed!

IMPORTANT: Your final product should be a Power Point that contains 2 slides – one bad slide, and one corrected good slide.

KEYNOTE DIRECTIONS

These directions are for those working in Keynote.

1. Make a copy of you file and save it as "Good Pres- Your Name".  Save it to the desktop.

2.Choose one of your slides to correct.  Delete all of the others.

3. Make a copy of that file by going to  EDIT>DUPLICATE

4. Correct the second copy of that slide.  Leave the first slide uncorrected.

5. Print two slides on one sheet.  Go to FILE>PRINT>HANDOUT>2 SLIDES PER PAGE