POWERPOINT I

1.  People think powerpoint is easy to use the first night before
they have to give a presentation.  This is half-true.  Powerpoint
is easy and everyone seems to find the animations quickly and
learns them quickly and ends up with talks that look ver "power pointy."

Let's use it a bit differently.

Whenever I have to give a powerpoint talk, I have a lot of diagrams
and images.

2.  Here is a talk I gave on 9/11 to Mark Wrighton's management
team just before we knew we were being attacked by terrorists.
Horrible coincidence.  But a nice talk.  It deserves to be in powerpoint.

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~loui/091101/main1.html

Convert it.  Pay particular attention to sizing of images
and layout of text.  You actually only need to do about
ten slides for me.

3.  Actually, #2 kept you busy, didn't it?

4.  Something I always dislike in a power point talk is when
	bullets do not have any extra line spacing between them.

	Make sure your bullets don't have this problem.

5.  Another pet peeve is when the image is too small to be read
	for detail.  Sometimes I copy the slide with the image
	and on the second slide, I have a 100% blow up of the image.

	Do that to two of your slides with detail-heavy images.

6.  And the next pet peeve is when I have to cut and paste a lot of text
	and PowerPoint starts to fight me.  Just for jollies, go to
	the computer science department's list of graduate students
	and copy and paste that after the title slide, as an
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS slide.  Good luck formatting it.

7.  Something else I always do in PowerPoint is have a slide with
	and image on it, then duplicate the slide, change the
	image slightly in the second slide, then use the two
	adjacent slides to create a cheap back-and-forth animation.

	You know exactly what I'm talking about even though that
	sounded a little strange.

	I want you to duplicate one of the slides with an image
	on it, then slightly alter the image in PhotoShop, then
	put the new image where the old one was on the duplicate
	slide.

8.  Do the slideshow.  Change the slide animation properties
	so that it presents the slide show all by itself, one
	second per slide.

	One second is a little fast, ey?

9.  Change the timings so that they are appropriate for the slide
	content.