Presentations

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The generic issues the Presenter face:

I hope the below tips help you save lots of time in preparing your slides. There are a lot of advantages in using electronic projectors in sermons and Sunday School. Work hard to practice the things mentioned above at the beginning and they will become habits that will help your presentations be more effective. After all, the reason you are speaking and presenting is to get your message out!

Presentation Tips

1. "FONT PROBLEMS TO AVOID"

"Fonts" define the way that the text appears. Times New Roman looks like typewritten font and script fonts may look like you wrote them with a pen. Windows based computers come loaded with certain base fonts but users may add or even delete font styles. When you are going to share PowerPoint shows among different computers you must be careful to be sure that both computers have the same fonts loaded. In general, PowerPoint DOESN'T carry the font styles with it when you save your presentation. Different fonts carry different moods and messages and the wrong font may give your presentation a totally different feel.

2. "BULLET PROBLEMS TO AVOID"

Closely akin to font problems are "Bullet" problems. Bullets are the little boxes, dots, dashes or other symbols or graphics used at the beginning of each line in subtexts. Just as you have fonts preloaded on your computer so do you have fonts. The same problems occur with bullets that occur with fonts. If you used a bullet symbol when making your presentation and it doesn't exist on the computer that you are using to make the presentation then the software will automatically pick some other bullet. This can be something with a totally different view..

3. "EQUIPMENT ISSUES - PROJECTORS VERSUS PC to TV Converters"

A lot of churches, especially smaller ones, choose to use PC to TV converters in their small classes. As a result, people who share presentations should be aware of the problems that can occur when sharing with people who may be using such equipment. The first issue to deal with is the fact that the shape of the computer screen is NOT the same as a TV screen. As a result, if you run your text or graphics all the way to the edge of your computer screen then you may find that part of the text or image is actually cut out of the presentation when run on the TV set.

The second consideration for PC to TV use is that TV's often overdrive the color red. It is a general good idea to avoid red fonts and stripes when making shows that may be shown on TV screens. When the color gets overdrivent then it looks like it is "bleeding" onto the adjacent part of the screen and gives you jagged images.

4. "GRAPHICS AND COPYRIGHTS"

What people write and create as art or photograph is most often copyrighted. A common problem is that Sunday School teachers and preachers think that they can simply copy text or scan in images from books or magazines and put them in their presentations. The truth is that taking the work of others is most often a violation of copyright. The ethics of the situation is that people who write or make artistic creations are entitled to being paid for their work. Ethics aside, the control of text and images via copyright is both national and international law. You should not use others work's without their permission. There are a lot of ways to avoid violating copyrights. First, you can use royalty free images from image collections. Be aware, however, that some image collections, such as those you find on CDROMS or on the Internet state that the images are only royalty free if you don't sell your material. Even Bibles may be copyrighted. Versions such as the NIV are copyrighted but at last check their notes indicated it was OK to quote limited passages from them provided that you repeat their copy statement. This statement tells that you are using the NIV and who publishes it and other business statements.

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