Unit 4 Chapter 13 1. What questions should you ask about the demographics of an audience?

Demographics - What ages, gender, and educational backgrounds are represented in the audience? 2. What constitutes the environment of a presentation? Environment - Comfortable and confident enough around the people for the presentation. 3. What does an audience care about more than interesting graphics in a presentation? The audience cares far more about what you are saying than how fascinating your PowerPoint slides appear. 4. How many main points should be in a presentation? There should be three main ideas. 5. What determines how many slides you will use? As the outline points are entered, PowerPoint translates into a series of graduated steps that appear on the slides.

6. What view is most useful when beginning to plan a presentation? You must select a slide type that includes both title and text. 7. What purpose do the bullets and dashes serve in a PowerPoint slide? The bullets and dashed combined with the indenting of lines provide an outline-like view on the slides themselves. 8. How many lines of text should appear on a slide? A general rule is to limit the number of lines on a slide to no more than six. 9. How many words should appear in a line of text? There should be no more than six words per line. 10. How can you make ideas grammatically parallel? Use the same the same grammatical structure in supporting ideas. It also means that if you capitalize all the terms in idea 1, you should do the same in idea 2. 11. What should be included in the notes of a slide?

The notes option in PowerPoint is a good place to jot down these ideas they occur. 12. Why shouldn't you include every detail on a slide? You shouldn't include every detail on a slide because it becomes too jumbled and you could have just printed out a handout with all the information rather than making a PowerPoint. 13. What are two options available to you when deciding on the movement of slides? Move sequentially from one slide to another, or with the use of hyperlinks movement can be in any direction. 14. What purpose do links serve on a slide? Enables you to select the links you want them to activate, such as moving to a particular page or back to the first slide. 15. Why did the Whitedeers decide to override the rules about the number of ideas on a single slide? For better organization of the ideas.

Unit 4 Chapter 14

1. Why are templates good design choice? They are the quickest way to add visual effects to your presentation. 2. What is the disadvantage of using a template? One disadvantage of using them is that if your audience has frequently attended PowerPoint presentations, they may recognize a template from a previous experience. 3. What are the three basic kinds of slide layouts? The three basic kind of slide layouts are: Title Slide, Text Slide, and Multimedia slide. 4. What might a multimedia slide contain? A multimedia slide may contain a Table, Chart, Clip art, Picture, Diagram or organizational chart, and/or Media (sound or movie). 5. What is included in the term media? Movies or sound. 6. What purpose does a master slide serve? To keep a consistent look. 7. What can be included on a master slide? Header and footer information such as page numbers is also included on the master slide.

8. What four positive results does color provide in a presentation? Color in presentations make slides pretty, color can increase learning retention and recall nearly 80 percent, use of color can increase comprehension by more than 70 percent, and color increases willingness to read by up to 80 percent and improves selling efficiency by neatly 85 percent. 9. What options does a color scheme provide? Colors are assigned to the background, the title, and the bulleted text. 10. What colors help keep audience focused? Audiences are better focused if the background is dark and the text and drawings are lighter colors. 11. What are your background choice? The background can be a single color, graduated colors, colored textures, or even a photograph. 12. What happens to the size of the text on a PowerPoint slide if you add more text? The text will become smaller if you add more text. 13. What is the most important criterion when choosing a font for a presentation? It's important to choose your font for readability rather than for style.

14. What decision do you have to make regarding use of multimedia on a slide? When adding multimedia you have to consider if the visual clarifies the message, and if the visual makes the presentation more effective. 15. What design element on a slide can help prevent clutter on a slide? White space on a slide can help prevent clutter on a slide.

Unit 4 Chapter 15 1. What happens when you animate text? Makes text move in some way. 2. What kinds of events occur when you create a slide transition? The transition between slides can be simply moving from one to another or it can be an interesting special effect such as a clockwise spin. 3. What purpose could an animated slide transition serve? Keep the audience engaged.

4. To what do animation schemes apply? Animations schemes apply to text or images that appear on a slide. 5. What options do animation schemes provide? Schemes can be selected as openings, as exits, or for emphasis. 6. What are your choices for text animation? There are many different choices for text animation, but some include "Flying Title" or Text colors. 7. When would you use a subtle effect? Can be used in formal situations. 8. What does setting a motion path let you do? Enables you to create a flying object or text line that moves across your slide in exactly the pattern you want. It has a grabbing effect. 9. What purpose can music serve on a slide? A few bars of music attached to an opening slide can set the mood or tone of your presentation. 10. Besides inserting a sound, what other ways can you use sound? One option is to insert the sound much as you would an image. The second option is to attach sound to an image or text box by using effects options so that the sound plays as the image or text appears on the slide.