# Presentation: 646258

**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**
**National Program of Cancer Registries**
**Atlanta, Georgia**
**www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr**

**NPCR Education and Training Series (NETS)****Module 1: Building a Quality Presentation****Part 3:  Using Microsoft****®**** PowerPoint****®**** 2003**
-  **Prepared by Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC)****CDC Contract Number 200-2002-00576-0004**

**Notes:**
This module is designed for education coordinators within the central registries. For those who are new to this, welcome to the adventure of education. For those who have been doing it for awhile, there is always more to learn or a different way to present materials. We hope these modules provide ideas for generating your own presentations.

You will design presentations for those who report data to you, including hospital registrars, doctor's office staff, pathology laboratories, and others required to report cancer incidence in your state. Of course, you must tailor your message to the audience you have at the moment. When we mention "registrars" in these slides, we mean anyone who reports cancer incidence.

## Slide Design

**Design template = combination of fonts, colors, and graphics**
**Design templates available**
**Within program**
**On Microsoft Web site**
**KISS**
**Include slide number**

**Notes:**
A design template is a combination of fonts, colors, and graphics to aid your presentation.  Each one of those elements can be changed and we’ll discuss that later.
This presentation describes how to create slides using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003.
In Microsoft PowerPoint, select New from the File menu. On the right side of the screen, the New Presentation window opens.
	To start from a blank presentation and add the design later, select Blank presentation.  Some teachers like to keep a white presentation to create easy handouts, but that can be boring and there are ways to work around having a design when you create a handout. 
 	If you do not want to use a blank presentation, the next choice is to use one of the design templates. This will provide a choice of templates such as those shown on this slide. When you choose a design, you will see it on the screen.  By scrolling down the right side, different designs will fill in the box.  
3.	If you would like help creating your presentation, select AutoContent wizard.  
4. 	You can also find free templates on many Web sites. There’s quite a variety out there.  Remember to Keep It Simple and Sweet (KISS). PowerPoint templates are usually simple designs. A background design that is too busy can overwhelm your topic.

You’ll notice all of the CDC presentations look alike. That’s because CDC has specific requirements for presentations. This presentation will be a little different to illustrate the uses of templates and colors. Your organization might also have some required elements you must use that could limit your choices. There may be requirements for the use of  logos or specific color schemes associated with the organization or company. There may also be font requirements.

Don’t forget to put a number on the slides if possible. It will help you keep track of many things. Having a slide number can help your audience as a reference point for questions, especially if the questions happen long after the presentation. It can help you know how far you’ve come when designing the lecture or giving the presentation.

## Sample Background

**Too busy**
**Can’t read message**
**Text lost**

**Notes:**
This is such a fun background ... until you try to read the text.  No matter what color I choose for the font, it’s just not workable.

## Colorful

**Still color**
**Easier to read**

**Notes:**
You can still have colorful backgrounds ... but you need lots of plain space for your text.

## Slide Master

**Slide Master**
**Design and layout of all slides**
**Add page number**
**Add designs**
**Text size**
**Handout Master**
**Add headers/footers**
**Notes Master**
**Add headers/footers**
**Text style**
**Title Master**
**Design and layout**

**Notes:**
We’ll start with the choice of a basic design. One of the easiest ways to influence the way your slides look is to visit the Slide Master. To do that, use the View button and choose Master.  Within the master are several choices.

On the Slide Master, you set the size and font of the text for the headings and for each one of the outline levels for your text. In addition, you can set what kind of bullets you want and what color they should be. This is the area where you will add page numbers to the footer of the slide (or other place you choose).  If you have a special design that you want repeated on each slide such as a logo, this is where you place it. Whatever you do to the slide master will automatically occur to each individual slide, unless you remove the background graphics (more later).

The Handout Master allows you to make such changes as how many slides are on each page and if there is information needed in the header or footer (more later).

The Notes Master also allows changes to the header or footer and what font text you want to have on the notes.

To make changes to the title slide, you need to be on the Title Slide and ask for the Slide Master. It is similar to the regular Slide Master in that you can modify the text and fonts and add any special graphic design that will appear on the title slide only.

## Color

**Required?**
**Set a mood**
**Blue/green = relaxed, growth**
**Red/yellow = excited, happy**
**Contrast**
**Dark background, light letters**
**Light background, dark letters**
**Don’t use ****red ****and ****green**** together**
**Cancer ribbon colors? **
**www.personalizedcause.com**

**Notes:**
When discussing color, keep in mind any requirements you must follow.

There are preferences for dark letters on a light background and for light colors on a dark background. If you are not required to follow any colors, remember that colors can initiate feelings in the audience and those feelings might be different depending on the culture or nationality of your audience.  In the United States, blue is for depth and stability; dark blue is preferred by corporate America.  Green is safe, with dark green implying money.  Red is highly visible and emotionally intense, which is probably not a good choice for our work.  Yellow is pleasant, cheerful, but probably too bright for a background.  However, as the color for text, it is a good contrast.  Purple offers a peaceful environment.

The text you use should contrast with the background if it is to be easily seen in a large room.  As you can see, red and green are not a good contrast, partly because colorblind people cannot distinguish between the two colors.

Something fun you could do is incorporate the colors associated with the cancer awareness ribbons within your lecture, either as the background or the contrast color.  This is one of the better Web sites for finding which disease is represented by which color.

## Changing Color

**Color schemes on Slide Design**
**Background**
**Font**

**Notes:**
If you want to change colors, you can do it when you are choosing the design template. Each design comes with several pre-chosen color combinations.  

You can change the background very easily. While the pointer is on the slide, right click and select  Background. You can see the current background; at the bottom, choose the down arrow by the rectangular box to pull up more options. Options can include automated colors that match the slide template or more Standard colors versus Custom colors where you can change the shade of the color. You can also choose Fill Effects which allow you several options: Gradient (two or more colors melded together), Texture, Patterns, and importing pictures that can be used for backgrounds. On the slides we’re viewing from CDC, the background is set as a black and blue gradient.

You can omit the background from your slide, which is recommend when you are using an involved graphic or table on the slide. The choices you make for colors can be applied to individual slides by Apply or to the entire lecture by Apply to All.

To choose font colors, you can change them all on the Slide Master by choosing it under View on the toolbar, or you can highlight the individual word you want to change and go to Format on the toolbar or right click the mouse. When you choose Font, you see Color is an option. You have the same choices of Automatic, Standard, or Custom colors. You can also see how to change the font for the text, add style features, change size or add effects.

## Slide Layout

**Notes:**
This is the variety of standardized slide layouts.  The useful part of these is the placeholders, the squares and sections already built into the slide for you to enter the text or pictures without having to create boxes to hold them.

The first one under the Text Layouts is usually the Title Slide.  You can use this at the beginning of the presentation.  It has its own Slide Master and usually has larger fonts for the text.  You can also use it throughout the presentation when you change topics.

The next one is a slide title without any placeholders.  This can be used for tables or graphics when you know you will still have room for a slide heading.  
Next is the common slide for bulleted text, and last in the text layouts is the title and two-column text.

Under the Content Layouts is a totally blank slide without placeholders, although it still has the background.  This is a good layout to use for complicated tables or graphics that will fill the entire slide.  The rest under the Content Layouts are different patterns of including graphics, symbols, tables, and other elements.  

Text and Content Layouts offer you the variety of placeholders to allow for bulleted text as well as a graphic of some kind.
Other Layouts allows for things we haven’t run into so far including the ability to create a table or graph within a slide rather than cut and paste it from another application.

In any of the layouts, you can remove any of the placeholders if you need more space.  You can reshape the size of the placeholders simply by grabbing the edge of it and moving with your mouse.  

## Pictures

**Insert from File or Clip Art**
**Cut and paste**
**Keep consistent**
**Avoid cutesy stuff?**
**Copyright**

- Clip Art

- Microsoft Clip Art

- © 2004 A.D.A.M., Inc.

**Notes:**
Microsoft has built-in searchable clip art with both cartoon and photograph illustrations that might be helpful.  You can also go to Microsoft Office Online and search for more clip art, or you can insert your own personal pictures stored elsewhere in your computer.
The picture on the right came from clip art provided with Microsoft Office software. The picture in the middle was licensed by the CDC for use in this education and training series and has to be displayed with the copyright included per the instructions of the copyright owner.
You can break up the monotony of a text lecture with pictures at least every few slides. Some rules about pictures are:  
1) Don’t use for serious or bad news messages
2) Try to stick with one style of images (all photos or all drawings).  That might not be as easy for us when we are trying to illustrate new treatments or anatomy and the best picture is of a different type. 
3) Use one piece of clip art per slide.  On this slide that rule has not been followed. You can see how cluttered the slide appears.  However, it does show examples of the excellent quality that can  be found from the clip art section as well as Web site illustrations.
4) Don’t use clip art on every slide.  You don’t want to appear frivolous.
5) If you can’t find a good illustration, then don’t use one, or purchase extra clip art collections that can be kept in your office.
6) Avoid cutesy just to add a picture.  You don’t need kittens and bunnies on a lecture about breast cancer.
7) Be sure to document any copyright info when requested or needed.  Read the Web site copyright permission information carefully.  When in doubt, ask permission.

## Graphs

**Create from within slide**
**Create in Microsoft Excel and insert**
**Cut and paste**

**Notes:**
Graphs can be tricky to get into your PowerPoint slides. You can insert a graph from another application such as Microsoft Excel within the slide, but working within another program is sometimes very cumbersome, especially if you want to make any changes.

It may be easier to place your data in an Excel file and create the graph there. You can then insert a Chart from the Insert toolbar and copy it directly from the file. Changes are much easier from within Excel, so if you want to change colors on the table that has been inserted, you double-click on the graph and double-click on the bars that were the color I wanted to change. It may take several tries of looking for how to do this because it’s not as clear with instructions as in Excel.

If you find a graph in your search for data, you may want to cut and paste it into the presentation, but that too can be cumbersome if you wanted to make a change.

However, if you have created a graph in Excel from your data you can recreate the graph from within PowerPoint using the data from the Excel spreadsheet.

## Word Art

- Create Titles

- Emphasize
- Your
- Point!

- Having
- fun
- yet?

**Notes:**
WordArt is one of the choices on the Drawing toolbar.  It can be any color and any shape.  You will want to use this to catch the audience’s eye, but you probably don’t need it for every slide or there’s no novelty to it.  There are some standard shapes to choose from the tool bar button, but they can be modified by right-clicking.  For example, the shape with “Having fun yet?” was not on the standard (Word Art Gallery) button, but was found in the edit (right-click) button.  Through the edit feature, you can change colors (of text or outline to the word) and how tight or loose the letters are along with the direction of the word (horizontal vs vertical letters) or other combinations. Use some restraint in your design.  Use these tools for “wake up” slides.  Constant use will cause them to lose their effect.

## Other Inserts

- Here is a text box surrounded by the frame

- Word Art in
- a Special Frame

**Notes:**
A Text Box can be found on the Drawing toolbar. You might want to add an extra box when you’ve inserted a graphic and need a place to put some notes or references.  You can make the box any size.  When you first insert the box, it is small, but it expands as you add more text.  You then must decide what size font you need within the box as well as whether you want a frame around the box. The automatic color for text is black, and you might need to change the color of the font depending on the background you have for the slide. You can cut and paste text without a box but it is not as controllable when trying to resize it.

The tool bar also contains Oval frames, Special Diagrams, Organization Charts, Arrows, 3-D Effects, and many other options.

## Views

**View button on toolbar**
**Bottom left corner**
**Help organize slide order**
**Practice presentation**

**Notes:**
As you are creating your presentation, you may decide that you need to add something.
There are several options to do this.  If you have the View set to Normal, you can have Outline or Slides on the left side of the screen.  If you  want to add a slide right after the title slide, scroll up and place your mouse between the first and second slide.  You will see a line, and at that point, you can choose Insert (New Slide) on the toolbar. 
You could also change the View to Slide Sorter.  This shows the entire presentation in a square, citing one slide after the other.  This is the easiest way to reorganize your slides if you want to make changes.  For example, as you get to the end of the lecture, you realize that it would be better to have slides 10 and 11 at the bottom to relate better to slide 34.  When you see them in Slide Sorter View, you click on the slide you want to move and drag it to the new position.  Slide Sorter is great for giving you an idea of the flow of your presentation.  You can also change the size of Slide Sorter.  On the picture shown on the slide, Slide Sorter is set to 25% (see red circle).  That means 25% of the slide’s normal size is being shown so you can see them all at the same time.  By clicking in this box, you can choose a larger percentage to make them easier to read.
Another feature in View is the ability to preview your Slide Show.  When you choose this, the computer runs through your slide show with the slides taking up the entire screen.  If you do not have automatic timing set up (more later), you choose when to advance the slide by clicking the forward arrow at the bottom of the screen.  You will want to do this to see how your graphs, tables, etc. look when enlarged. Sometimes larger means fuzzier and in the larger size you may recognize errors in punctuation and alignment that you may have missed in smaller views.  You will also want to use this feature when you practice your presentation. If you start View Show in View or Slide Show from the toolbar at the top, it starts at the very beginning every time. If you use the Slide Show symbol in the bottom left corner, it starts the Slide Show at the current slide. If you want to make changes to a slide, escape from the Slide Show and make the changes, then click the bottom button to restart the Show from that point.
The last choice under the View button is Notes Page.  The Normal View offers a chance to see outline/slides plus slide and notes section.  The notes page is literally how the notes will print out.  In the Notes section you can change font, highlight important points, etc.,  but if you want to change the slide, you either change back to Normal View or double-click on the slide itself which takes you back to Normal View.  This can be very helpful if you were planning to print off your teaching material straight from PowerPoint.  If your notes are too long, they may not print, or they print so small you can’t read them.  The text box area can also be enlarged by dragging the margins out, and the slide portion can be made smaller to allow more space for text. Making the slide smaller in the Notes Page view will not affect the size of the slide in the presentation.

## Slide Transition

**Animation of how slides appear on screen**
**May include sound**
**May set timing**

**Notes:**
Let’s talk about transition, or how to move from one slide to another. Previously, you’ve seen that when each slide comes onto the screen, it may have slid from right to left, or checkerboarded, or came in like Venetian blinds.  In this presentation, the speaker doesn’t know how the slides will transition because Random Transition was selected from the Slide Transition box  which is found under Slide Show on the toolbar.  However, you can choose a transition for each individual slide or an overall transition that should apply to all slides.
You can modify how fast the transition occurs from slow, medium, or fast.  This can be annoying if you are in a hurry and the slides take awhile to come to the screen.  Unless you are doing the presentation from your personal computer, you don’t know how it might work on another computer.
You may include sound with your slide transitions on this same box.  This slide included a drum roll, but again, it was unknown if it would work for every presentation because not all computers are set up with sound.  You could spend a lot of time on setting up special effects that won’t be effective when you copy the presentation to another computer.  On the other hand, if it works, it could be a fun way to wake up the audience!
Also in this section, you can choose to time your slides.  You can either advance them with your mouse click, or you can set up an automatic time.  The automatic time would be very effective if you had a presentation that was self-sufficient and did not need a speake, for example, showing data at a state meeting out in the lobby where anyone can walk by and pause to see the show.  It could also be effective if you have practiced your presentation so much that you know how long each slide should take.  That can be risky, especially if you talk slower or faster when you get nervous.   It is also helpful to know how to turn this timing off, if it accidentally gets turned on. 
A word of warning: adding slide transitions or sound increases the size of your presentation file.  That might not matter if you are controlling the medium in which you will transport the file (your own jump drive or floppy disk) but it could matter if you have to send the file to another registrar or facility by email to prepare handouts and they can’t receive it because of size restrictions.  

## Animation

**How individual objects enter or exit slide**
**Bullet points**
**Graphs**
**Pictures**
**Takes time**
**Adds to file size**
**Be discriminating**

**Notes:**
On the Animation Schemes, you have choices of Subtle, Moderate, and Exciting.  For this slide, Ellipse Motion was chosen from Exciting.  You should have seen the title arrive, create an ellipse and spin around, then settle down.  However,  to get the bullets to appear on the slide,  the mouse must be clicked for each bullet.  When you have sub-bullets underneath, they arrive at the same time unless you choose some customization.

Another word of warning: While this can be fun, it can also be very frustrating for you and the audience.  You may inherit lectures from others that have animation on every slide and one of the first things you want to do is remove it. If your style as a speaker is not to look at the screen often, you could be speaking and all of the points you are making are missing from the screen because you forget to click the mouse for each individual point to arrive. If you choose to use animation within a slide, you must practice, practice, practice!

Also, like transitions, animations add to the size of your file and would have the same restraints if you are trying to share files with others.

 Transitions and animations themselves can be very distracting.  Use them in moderation.

## Custom Animation

**Choose order of arrival**
**Apply individual sounds**
**Time-consuming**

**Notes:**
Under Slide Show on the toolbar, you will find Custom Animation, or you can right-click on the placeholder, graphic, etc., and Custom Animation is in the choices. On this slide everything is custom animated. It took awhile to figure out what fit best, and it is unknown how it will work for presentation on someone else’s computer.  

Using these well could be considered advanced speaking tools.  They can help illustrate the point(s) you are trying to make, but they can also get in the way.  You will have to make the choice when it comes to designing your lectures of how much pizazz you wish to add.

## Spell-Checking and Proofreading

**Speling under Tools**

**You cannot rely on just spelling**
**Ode to a Spell Checker  excerpt  by Jerrold H. Zar **
***It plane lee marks four my revue ***
***Miss steaks aye can knot sea. ***

**Notes:**
Yes, “Spelling” is deliberately misspelled on this slide.  When the slides were being created, a red, wavy line was seen underneath the misspelled word to try to catch the author’s attention to fix it.  You are not seeing that on the slides because the red line is removed when you use Slide Show.  That could be because the Microsoft folks are aware enough of other industries to recognize that the dictionary built into the system will not be able to spell every word correctly, such as all the medical terms we use in the registry field.

You can run the spell-checker on individual slides, or on your entire presentation including notes, which is highly recommended.  It runs just like spell-checker in Word documents by offering Changes or Suggestions or the ability to add the word to a Custom Dictionary so it won’t stop at that word every time.  You can also highlight a specific word and right-click on it to see some of the dictionary choices as well as look up the word for meaning.

However, checking the spelling will not ensure a quality presentation.  You might have missed some errors of truly accepted English words that do not mean what you intended.  One funny poem you may have been sent through e-mail is the Ode to a Spell Checker.  This slide contains just two lines on the screen, which you can probably read pretty clearly and get the meaning of, but which are obviously not the words that should have been intended for that meaning. Spellchecker wouldn’t have caught this.

When proofreading, it would be much more effective to have someone other than you do the checking.  If you were the creator, you know what your meaning or intention was, but that meaning or intention might not be as clear to someone else.  Having the proofreader ask you questions or circle areas of concern allows you to improve your presentation in areas that don’t come across the way you intended.  

## Good, Bad, or Ugly

**Color schemes**
**Dark background, light text color**
**Room lighting could affect**
**Differs from computer to computer**
**Projector could influence**

**Notes:**
When you look at color schemes, there are several things to keep in mind.  In most rooms, a dark background with light text color will be the best, but the room lighting, especially rooms with many windows, or the inability to turn off lights near the screen can affect what the audience sees.  You can create the greatest colors on your computer and when you take your disk to the “company” computer, the shades will be different.  Even the projector could influence how the colors look.  There will be times when the computer you are using has green for a background and there is a shade of blue on the screen because the machines aren’t speaking to each other correctly.  

## Light Background

**Lots of different**** ****colors can work**** ****with light**** ****background**
**But it can be hypnotizing**

**Notes:**
A white or light background can be very easy to plan around.  Most colors work, but if you will be in a room with lots of windows or lights that can’t be dimmed, it can be as hypnotic as staring at a computer screen all day.  Notice how the outlines of the letters or graphics don’t appear as sharp as on a dark background. 

On the other hand, white is reliable.  Most computers show it as a true color.  When you have a colored background, it can look like a totally different shade on the computer screen than on the projected screen.

## Fonts

**Simpler block letters are easier to read (Arial 28)**
**Use the largest size possible (Tahoma 28)**
**Easier with handout (Verdana 28)**
**Serifs use up space (Times New Roman 30)**
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**Size matters (Garrett 40)**
**Some are only capital letters (Felix Titling 24)**
**Emphasize words in *****Italics***** or ****Color ****(Lucida Console 28)**

**Notes:**
As you can see when you try to read the different statements on the slide, some fonts are more easily read than others.  Some people prefer those without tails on the letters. Tails are also called serifs, so my favorites are called sans serifs.  

It is easy to set up the font on the Master Slide so that all are the same.  

Pay attention to the size of the font. Font size 28 or larger is a suitable choice on most fonts.  The standard Master slide uses decreasing font sizes for each successive bullet.

If you have a lot of text to put on the slide, you can decrease the font size for just that slide only by one size less, but it is much better to break up the content into two or more slides if you have too much content. For example, if the point was not to allow you to see the variety of sizes on this slide, it should have used two slides.  There are too many words on this slide!

## Bullets

**Use bullet points **
**Whole sentences for quotes only**
**Encourages note-taking**
**Keeps notes organized**
**Provides structure**

**Notes:**
There is a teaching theory that suggests that the instructor posts 5 to 10 words and that these words are incorporated into a lecture.  Students are told that at the end of the presentation they will be asked to define these words.  The words will provide a focus point and the students will pay attention to try to get the definitions for them and the relationships within the presentation.

You can incorporate this theory into your slides.  Having only the main points or words on the slides provides the audience with the ability to know what’s important, but they still will need to pay attention to get a complete picture.  If you have audience members who take notes to boost their learning, it provides them with the words to listen for, and it makes them much easier to read for both the audience and the presenter.

You can see on the slide that there are a variety of bullets you can use and this can be established on the Slide Master rather than changing each slide.  You also see you can create customized bullets.  You may remember the first presentation when a smiley face, unhappy face, etc. were used.  You can also change the color of the bullets (for cancer ribbon colors, etc.)

You can also remove the bullets if you need space, especially when you are using the two-column text slide layout, or if you are using a numbered list.  If you are adding references to a slide, you might want to give them a bullet, or you may want them plain so they don’t look like one of the points you’re trying to make.

## Notes Pages

**Simple font**
**Highlight points you need**
**Do not read verbatim**

**Notes:**
Whether you are in the Normal View or the Notes Page View, this is the space you would take notes in.  Keep the font simple.  You can use color or highlighter or bold to reinforce the parts within your notes that you don’t want to miss.

A good presenter uses notes as a reference point, not as an essay.  Do not read them word for word.  It will not allow you to interact with the audience and it is very boring! The more you practice, the more you will not need to refer often to the notes.  Do not try to memorize all the information.  You may be nervous and miss some of the very points you wanted to highlight.  

If you are using a presentation with prepared speakers notes, you should customize them to your needs.  If the notes are in complete sentences, you can convert them to bullets.

## Handouts

**Take-home reference**
**Horizontal versus vertical**
**Number slides per page**
**Headers/footers**
**Page number**
**Alternatives to lecture notes**

**Notes:**
	The easiest take-home reference for your audience is a printed handout that includes all the slides presented, but you must decide when you want to make this available. 
A student may prefer to have it at the start of the presentation so they will not need to take notes on a separate piece of paper. Also, they might not be able to copy everything on the slide or even the pertinent parts fast enough to capture the relevant information. However, if you make any changes at the last minute, the audience will not have an exact copy.
Handouts are also a good back-up if the electronics involved in your presentation fail. You & your audience will still have the benefit of your slides by following the handout.  Hopefully this will be a rare occurrence, but it has happened.  
The look of the handout will depend on how you choose to print it.  If you print it through the PowerPoint function Print Handouts, you can choose to print up to nine slides per page, but no more than six is recommended for handouts.  You can choose for the slides to go across the page 1, 2, then 3, 4, etc. or choose 1, 2, 3 down the left side.  If you choose three slides per page, it will create lines beside the slide for notes.  If printing cost or space is an issue, six slides per page usually provides room for notes.  If you choose this option, you can specify that the handout be printed in grayscale or black and white, which can save ink and look better for copied handouts when a dark background was chosen for the presentation. This is important especially if you have good anatomic drawings or other information that people will want to refer to when they get home. Experiment with the number of slides on the handout and whether to use landscape (wide) or portrait (tall). 
You can also choose to Send to Word (similar to Notes pages), which may allow you a little more flexibility in the design of the handout.  However, that may be more work than you need to do.
Remember to add a header or footer to the handout that includes things such as where or when the presentation was given and the speaker’s contact information.  Include a page number on the handout to make it easier to keep the copies in order.
You may have information in addition to the slides you wish to add to the handouts.  If you have printed exercises, they would be included.  You may have reference guides, fact sheets, articles, etc. that would be extra information the audience could use. 

## Summary

**PowerPoint **
**Visual aid**
**Augments message**
**Organized**
**Creative**
**Reference: Wempen, Faith. *****PowerPoint 2003 Bible*****. Indiana: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2003**

**Notes:**
It is hoped that this has been a helpful introduction and/or reminder about the variety of skills you can develop by using PowerPoint.  It is an excellent visual aid to your lecture that will augment the messages you wish to share.  It can keep you organized as well as timely.  It also allows you to be creative so your audience can be entertained as well as enlightened.

One useful reference is listed on the screen, but there are many others.  As an Education Coordinator, you might want to acquire a reference about PowerPoint as well as Excel and/or Word for your shelves.  One of the way you can choose references is to flip through the Table of Contents to access the general content and search for a particular topic in the index. You can look up “color,” for instance.  In this reference there are multiple references for this topic.

##  Remember: 

Your audience wants to hear from you 

and they’re on your side. 

-  **Remember: **
**Your audience wants to hear from you **
**and they’re on your side.**** **

**Notes:**
A last message:  Remember that your audience wants to hear from you and they’re on your side.