Powerpoint Presentations

What the articles talked about regarding Powerpoint presentations was true. I've seen so many times people showing their powerpoint presentations with a lot of text in them and simply reading off of them. That is not professional and completely boring. One of the things that the articles mentioned was not to use the already created templates that Microsoft has made for us. Their reason for this is because people have probably seen them already, and it will be too repetitive for them. Something that I definitely do agree with the authors of the articles and that everyone in class should take into consideration is not to put those cheesy sounds on presentations. They were really popular when Microsoft PowerPoint first came out, but now they are too repetitive and boring. Plus, the authors of the articles said it would make the presentation less professional, and would damage the credibility of the presenter. I think that whenever possible, we should definitely use either video or at least some audio (not the cheesy sounds). This really grasps the attention of the audience and makes the presentation not boring. What somewhat surprised me was about the blank spaces in the presentations, because we usually try to fill them up with pictures and other things. When we present (me and my classmates), we have to speak up and let our powerpoint presentations be our aid so that people can relate to our topic, but most importantly, the audience must listen to us. Therefore, we must speak in a loud (not annoyingly loud) and clear voice.