WEEK 5: REFLECTION ON DESIGNING EFFECTIVE POWER POINT PRESENTATION

In order to create an effective power point presentation, Victor Chen has highlighted some important points that should be  looking at. For example, he stressed on the font size, colour used and content arrangement that will keep our power point presentation simple and clear. All these are needed to ease the presenter during the presentation and to avoid the audience from having any visual distraction due to unorganized power point presentation. Besides, as students we have to know the basic skills of creating an effective power point presentation to fulfil the assessment requirements. As for the long term benefit, Insya Allah, when we embark into the working world in the future, this skill is very helpful for us to make an excellent presentation whether for proposal presentation, meeting, special occasions and so on.

Typically, people will tend to judge us through our presentations. Hence, preparing an effective power point presentation also very important because our slides are actually what people will be looking at besides us. We know that the function of the slides is to provide information and knowledge to people. This is very much related to the Islamic method of Da’wah since Da’wah also gives us knowledge. People will not listen to us if our points are not clear enough. Hence, Islam stresses on the clarity of messages given to people. Besides, we need to keep our message simple yet informative. People will understand better if they are clear with what we say, in this case, what we show in our power point presentations.

Victor Chen also explains that we have to be consistent in creating our slides, for example by choosing only one font for the whole power points. We can see here that consistency also is needed in Islam. For instance, in preaching other people, consistency is needed to avoid any confusion of thoughts. A good da’i also must be very consistent in his/her way of giving Da’wah. Victor Chen then says that a good power point must avoid cramping all information in one shot and putting too much detail in one slide. He wants to say that we have to show any info one by one to make it easier to be understood.

Again, Islam encourages us to be moderate in giving Da’wah to allow people to accept the message slowly without any burden. This is very clear because we know that even Al-Qur’an was revealed gradually. For instance, Allah had revealed the verses related to the prohibition of drinking gradually because during the early stage of Islam, it was the habit of the Arab’s people to drink. Hence, to prevent them with one command will made them hard to accept the new ruling. After all, we have to know the right technique of creating power point presentations as the slides somehow will give us confidence during the presentation because we will not fluster if our slides are good.