Planet College Caution: Bad Power Point.

As a student and as an instructor I have sat through a lot of visual display presentations. Usually these are computer-based programs like PowerPoint®. Often these presentations were overly detailed with too many pages and too many bullet points per page. It is understandable that the presenters were anxious to get their ideas across. They seem to have lost sight of the fact that visual presentations need only present an outline, the presenter then fills in the outline. Here’s a tip based on my experience. If you choose to use such a program make it brief and to the point. Do not make more than 3-5 display pages and do not use more than three bullet points per page. Keep it simple, really simple.