Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations

In our previous class, Dr. Rozina had shown us a very useful slides on designing effective powerpoint presentations prepared by Victor Chen. Over all, we had a very useful insight on how to produce better powerpoint slides and realized all the common mistakes that we used to do with our digital visual aids. This lessons is very helping for our future career, too. According to Victor Chen, there are 5 major points in creating an effective powerpoint presentation;

1) Big
2) Consistent
3) Clear
4) Progressive
5) Simple

First of all, the font used for the slides have to be big and the smallest wold be font 32 as the audience need to see it clearly from near and far. The slides need to be as simple as it can and not too much information should be within the slides. Only key points are advised to be put within the slides. The pictures, animations and sounds are also advised to be simple, not too loud and not too heavy as these may distract the audience from the slides. The capitalization of words and numbers should be aligned according to the sequence for clearer understandings. Moreover, the progress that will be presented in the slides should be put accordingly and only the highlights of the progress are advised to be put in the slides. All of the points listed above are the key points towards effective powerpoints slides and it should not be taken for granted as the slides represents the speakers towards the audience.

REFLECTION

Generally as students, we do agree with the importance of creating a powerful powerpoint slides as we understand that the slides are the only help that we have in the middle of the presentation. The same method could be applied when approaching others towards Islam as Insya'Allah, we could try to attract people to hear more about Islam with our presentable and powerful slides. Sometime, people are attracted to the way we speak or argue about things but somehow, first impression do play a role in the beginning of our speech as it made the viewers decide to stay focus or not. In approaching different layers of people in preaching Islam, a powerful slides are one of the major cause that made them stay. Effective slides make the presentation more presentable, enjoyable and easy to understand. From this, the preaching process promoting Islam could be done successfully and the truth of Divine massage can be delivered without any technical difficulties. People will be more interested in listening the speech and the method of preaching is increased towards another level in the world of communication.