Guidelines for Preparing Slides

1. Guidelines for Preparing Slides SUNA speakers information

2. FYI prior to the conference • SUNA is no longer printing a syllabus, so power point presentations will be uploaded prior to the meeting for attendees to print the handouts they’d like to bring with them. • These will be uploaded as a PDF so that your work is protected – registrants will simply print these PDFs to bring on-site.

3. Post-conference • SUNA is now partnered with Digitell, Inc, which will allow us to provide quality education to our members and colleagues unable to attend our Symposium and Conference. • The PowerPoint presentation and a digital recording of the session will be made available in our on-line library to those who have attended, or pay to have access to, these sessions. Note – The PowerPoint presentation cannot be downloaded except as a handout. Therefore, you do not have to worry about attendees using your PowerPoint inappropriately.

4. Outline formats are Easier to Follow

5. Use Bullets, not numbers • Bullets imply no significant order • Use numbers only to show rank or sequence

6. No More than One Topic per page

7. Use the 6 X 6 rule: 6 lines of text 6 words per line

8. Illustrations Allow plenty of room around borders and illustrations

9. Select Readable Type SizeThis is 38 point • Minimum 36 point for titles • 24 for body text • This is 32

10. Use a Readable Typeface and Font • Use Sans serif (no curly feet) such as Arial or universal for body text • Useserif such as Perpetua for titles only

11. Adjust Lettering to Discriminate or emphasize • Make titles a larger type size that body elements • Emphasize important statements of words with bold, italic, underline,larger size, or different font.

12. Choose color carefully • Use the same color consistently throughout the presentation • Use light letters on a dark background

13. Colors • Avoid placing saturated colors (red, green, or blue) adjacent to each other • They may create a third color where the two colors meet

14. Use solid colors instead of fill Patterns on Charts • Patterns on bars or pie slices cause confusion • Solid colors convey a clear bold message

15. Your slides are not your presentation • Your slides are a focus of your presentation • Your presentation is not proof of your thesis • You present your proof with slides to focus interest on what you think is important

16. Use Silence Wisely • Recall: You have to give the audience time to read the slide • But: Silence is uncomfortable, so you can’t keep quiet • So: You end up reading your slide to the audience • Which is: Usually irritating to the audience!

17. Slides that should be included • The first slide, following your title slide, should be one that has your disclosure information on it – whether you have a vested interest that the participant needs to be aware of.

18. Slides that should be added • The last slides are a good place to add your references as often participants want to know where to go for further information. Because of handouts no longer being available in a syllabus, having the references in the slides assists the learner from not having to go into a Word document to find them when these are placed in our on-line library