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1. Read all the articles linked below on creating Presentations:

 * Garr Reynolds: Top Ten Slide Tips
 * LifeHacker: 10 Tips to More Powerful Presentations
 * How to Make a Great :Powerpoint
 * Dan Zarella: Your Powerpoint Sucks

===2. Spend about half an hour re-doing the Powerpoint entitled "NOLA.ppt" which you will receive via email. Email your revised version back at least 24 hours prior to the second face-to-face class. You may make more or less slides, you may use or not use any of the included images, only stipulation is that it be no more than 10 slides when revised. Rename it NOLA.YourLastName.ppt and email it back to your instructor.===

===3. Read this article where Guy Kawasaki explains his 10/20/30 rule: [|http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html#axzz1ZYmYFSBz]===

4. Watch this You Tube video called Bad Powerpoint, Very Bad. It is 12 step process of improvement:

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 * 5. Click on this link that will immediately download for you an excerpt from a book by Lynn Burmark called "They Snooze...You Lose!" It has lots of great information in just this excerpt alone and we have been given permission to pass it along to attendees of the class. **


 * 6. Use Google or some other search engine to do some searching for FREE powerpoint backgrounds. Download a few you like and start your own collection so you will have some inviting ones at your fingertips. Be prepared to ask any questions you may have during the next class about how to use such backgrounds. **