PowerPoint

The PowerPoint help articles I've read all seem to focus on making presentations for a business/professional setting; however, they do raise some good points on how to make PowerPoint presentations a little less boring. The biggest piece of advice given is to keep the slides simple, as simple as possible. Text should be limited, to avoid reading from the slide. Don't go overboard with animations and other special effects. An interesting take on making PowerPoint presentations is that the slides should, basically, be meaningless without you, the presenter. Another huge piece of advice, do not rely on the features that are built into the PowerPoint program. They have been seen a million times already. Try searching the web for new, more exciting images to use as a background or for relevant video clips.