Power Point Presentations

The Microsoft Training website has tutorials on every aspect of Power Point. Very useful for the beginner.

On the website with the Top Ten Slide Tips it was interesting to find out that templates should not be used. Instead, something more original that fits the presentation should be used but it should stay professional.

The website explaining about how to not make a bad presentation one of the rules stated that no more than six words on a slide. Another thiing that is supposed to be done during power points, which makes the presentations more boring, are the transitions have to be basic- no spins or fades.

The YouTube tutorial video explains the basic processes of power point including inserting a picture. It teaches how to introduce a picture into the slide in a customized way like with a bounce.


My tip is to try to relax and be comfortable because in all reality nobody will really know if you mess up or not. If you are trying your best then that is all that counts.

The five guidelines I think are important are
1. Don't read off the slides
2. Don't have a ton of word
3. Don't say "ummm..." a lot
4. Know what you are talking about
5. Make it seem interesting

Big & Tall

Cities and metropolitian areas have so many buildings. They are everywhere and they are all so tall. Some can be a bit scary.

Chris Nolan's Presentation

Chris Nolan’s presentation was very interesting. There was a lot of material that I already knew, but there were also plenty of subjects I didn’t. It is obvious that Google has to continue updating and changing how it is formatted in order to keep its users happy. I also knew that Google ranked the pages based on the number of hits, the number of times people link to a webpage and the number of key words present in an article. It was fairly obvious that it linked common ideas when a search was done and that popular websites show up more often than academic ones. I was surprised to find out that country codes are used to limit where the web pages are from. I didn’t know that you can click ‘control- F’ to search a word on a webpage.