When Using PowerPoint in Your Wimba Presentation

These thoughts come from a book entitled Cutting Edge PowerPoint 2007 for Dummies.

Text is the soul of a presentation — it relates to content like nothing else. Your text could be in the form of titles, subtitles, bullets, phrases, captions, and even sentences. A barrage of visual content might not be able to achieve what a single effective word can say — sometimes, a word is worth a thousand pictures. Text is significant because it means you have something to say. Without explicit text, what you’re trying to say might not come through as strongly as you want.  

Too much text is like too much of any good thing — it can be harmful. For example, a slide with 20 lines of teeny-weeny text just doesn’t work. The audience can’t read it, and the presenter doesn’t have time to explain that much content! Anyway, if you’re cramming so much text on a slide, you’ve already lost the focus of your presentation...."