A critique of sample introductory slides that addresses prompts 1. and 2. (below) and uses a clear layout:

A critique of sample introductory slides that addresses prompts 1. and 2. (below) and uses a clear layout: labels and paragraphing that support meaningType your critique of each slide into the Notes space below the slide. Here's a sample (attached file: Week 5 Critique_4-13-17.pptx) from a past class.

Step 1: View one of the PowerPoint slide set introductions below using the Slide Show tab; choose to view the slide set "From Beginning." You'll see the slides as an audience would, possibly with Animations that make individual bullet points "Appear" individually on the screen.

Here's the sides:

• Cleaning Your Computer, Introduction to first moving blueprint (attached file: Cleaning your computer_Intro to first moving blueprint-1.pptx)

Here are the complete slide sets built on the introductory slides above. Notice how the audience-friendly structure of the introductory slides predicts the structure of the entire slide set.

• Cleaning Your Computer (attached file: Cleaning Your Computer-2.pptx )

Step 2: View the same slide set again, using the View tab and choosing "Normal." You'll see the slide set down the left side of your screen and the speaker's notes beneath some slides. 

Please read the speaker's notes in the Notes spaces below some slides. These Notes may help you understand the designer's intentions because they indicate the speaker's oral delivery that accompanies each bullet point. (You'll be using these Notes spaces in a similar way when you design your own slide set.)

Step 3: Critique each slide in one sample introductory slide set, using questions "1." and "2." below. (Please ignore, for now, the opening opaque slide included to keep the audience focused on the "housekeeping" announcements that typically precede a talk.) 

Type your critique of each slide, with the labels 1. and 2., into the Notes space beneath the respective slide. As always, use paragraphing as needed to reveal shifts in subtopic, and support your opinions with reasoning or facts.

1. What specific advice, from the table below, has the PPT designer applied?

2. What are your specific suggestions to the designer, based on your personal taste and experience? OR What do you particularly like about the design of the slide? 

Save your critiqued introductory slides with a filename that includes your initials. Share your critiqued slides as an attachment. Once you have posted your critique, you'll be able to see critiques posted by others. 

Here's the table of criteria for each introductory slide:

Design A: Slide 1

Cover Slide 

Include the basic information your audience needs to see before you begin to speak:

• the title of your talk
• a relevant visual that expresses your general topic and approach to it
• your name in at least 30-point type
• your credentials for speaking on this particular topic

 Imitate the simplicity and clarity of the sample slides, above, that you have just critiqued. 

Provide a brief informal explanation of your term (if it's not "common knowledge").

Imitate the brevity and the ample use of white space you saw in the sample slides, above, that you have just critiqued. To apply the design "Rule of Thirds," place your content closer to your slide title than to the bottom of the slide, that is, out of the "dead center" of the slide, vertically. 

 Beginning on this slide, and continuing throughout, use a consistent type size (32 points or larger) for your slide titles. Consistently use 32-point type for your body text. 

OR

State your purpose as a presenter (not the purpose of your term!). For example, your purpose could be "To acquaint a lay audience with the term Windows Registry as it operates in investigations of computer crime."

Consider adding to the speaker's Notes space below this slide, for oral delivery, a statement about how the talk will benefit the audience.

 Imitate the concise approach of the sample slides, above, that you have just critiqued. Place your phrase closer to the title of the slide than to the bottom. 

Please do not present your purpose as a list.

Use a Bottom Line slide, instead of a Purpose slide, only when your primary purpose is to persuade (rather than to inform). 

List the parts of your presentation in parallel grammatical structures, as you did in your illustrated, business-style report in Weeks 2 and 3.

Create a slide design that is related to your design for body (or content) slides but that is distinctly different. Your audience needs to immediately recognize your blueprint slides as the organizers of your talk rather than as new content. 

Limit your blueprint to two to five more-or-less equal parts. 

Imitate the concise language you saw in the sample slide sets listed above. Place your blueprint list closer to the title of the slide than to the bottom. 

On your first "moving" blueprint, announce your first section of your talk with a check mark, a special bullet style, a bold color, or some other means.

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