Power Point Presentations

Power Point Presentations.....say that three times fast!

I think that Power Points, to make them effective, they need to be brief, clean (not a lot of animations), and the instructor needs to study the slides in order to be able to teach class well. My history professor uses Power Point slides every day to show us pictures, brief facts, and important names/dates. It says on one of the links that a lot of "white space" or "negative space" is a good thing, and I completely agree. Even if the slides have a simple but interesting background, a lot of negative space is a good thing to keep the audience's attention on the content of the slide. Also, slides create the mood for the presentation to have its greatest effect. My teacher uses a simple and clean design for the classroom, so as to rely on herself to keep her students' attention.