Use animations

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After just successfully defending on Friday, I want to pass on a bit of advice to all of you who are doing powerpoint presentations.

Use animations if possible. The difference between saying "this mixture of proteins can then interact with this specific antibody" etc etc while in the background you still have your excel bar graph from your previous experiment (which puts even experts to sleep), and actually seeing it, makes a huge difference. Even for people who are experts, seeing it happen visually really keeps attention, and also you don't forget anything. Office 2007 is excellent for this, and check out...

www.servier.com

for public domain ppt files with components of cells, pictures of proteins and receptors, and a huge host of other ppt elements you can use to really make your presentations stand out. For me it was huge...4 years in 40 minutes means every slide has to count.

See you all on the other side,
Dr. G

 

[RxnMan]

After just successfully defending on Friday, I want to pass on a bit of advice to all of you who are doing powerpoint presentations...

Good advice. 👍

Reminds me of my school's grad fair. I had a great presentation - neat project, good results, and anyone could see the potential applications of the findings ($$$). But who got second place in the presentation competition? Me. Who got first? A guy who had videos of his project in action. Never talk about something when you can show them.

 

[andafoo]

After just successfully defending on Friday, I want to pass on a bit of advice to all of you who are doing powerpoint presentations.

Use animations if possible. The difference between saying "this mixture of proteins can then interact with this specific antibody" etc etc while in the background you still have your excel bar graph from your previous experiment (which puts even experts to sleep), and actually seeing it, makes a huge difference. Even for people who are experts, seeing it happen visually really keeps attention, and also you don't forget anything. Office 2007 is excellent for this, and check out...

www.servier.com

for public domain ppt files with components of cells, pictures of proteins and receptors, and a huge host of other ppt elements you can use to really make your presentations stand out. For me it was huge...4 years in 40 minutes means every slide has to count.

See you all on the other side,
Dr. G

These are great!! If you know of any more of these, it would be great to have. Thanks.

 

[Vader]

Great tips!

Also, be sure to avoid sound effects. These serve only to annoy the listener.