The presentation must include both text and images. One page should be an index with links to other areas of the presentation.

Basic Recommendations for Building a Presentation:

• Keep background relevant.
  • Use a background appropriate for your subject and audience.
  • Use a background that does not detract from the impact of the images.
• Be sure that the text is easy to read.
  • Choose a color that contrasts with the background.
  • Use a font made for projection (Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Georgia).
• Limit the text to essential information.
  • Use bullets and short phrases.
  • Create an outline of the information you are presenting verbally.
  • Keep in mind that the audience skims each slide looking for critical points, not details.
• Keep images relevant.
  • Images on a slide should be a visual representation of the text.
  • Stay away from moving, cartoon-type images.
• All backgrounds, transitions, and animations should be consistent within the presentation.
  • The audience should be attentive to the infomation on the slide and you as the presentor.
  • The audience should not be focused on what fancy transition will happen next.

Create this presentation as if you were writing an outline for your Grand Round paper. You do not need to go into the details. The presentation would be similar to an outline for the paper.

A good length for this presentation would be 12 to 25 slides.