PowerPoint Presentations

I think that an effective PowerPoint presentation is interesting but doesn't have too many special effects. They can take away from the actual message and get to be quite annoying. I don't like when there is a lot of info on a slide because I can never see it all if the presenter goes too fast. I hate when people read straight from the PowerPoint too. That is so boring and makes me want to go back to my room and go to sleep. I have had instructors that do that here at Trinity. Other things that bother me are when people put really bright fonts on PowerPoint with picture backgrounds and try to make it all creative looking. PowerPoints serve a purpose of informing the audience about some topic, it's the speaker's job to make it interesting for them, not a slides.

Kristen Zinser