Organization of the Sides:

Have a clear outline. Use your final report as a "guide" to build your power point slides using the following outline:

• Introduction and Objective(s)
• Materials and Methods
• Results
  • Forage Ingredients and Composition
  • Concentrates (By-proucts) Ingredients and Composition
  • Minerals, Vitamins and Feed Additives
• Animal / Group Characteristics
• Current ration
  • Ingredient Mix and Composition (Table 5)
  • Assessment / Evaluation of Current Ration / Unresovled issues, etc.
• Alternate ration
  • Objective
  • Materials and Methods
  • Results
• Conclusions

Quality of Sides:

Simplicity and consistency are key:

• Choose a simple (non distracting) layout for the background, slide title, text, tables and figures and repeat as consistently as possible;
• Pay attention to formatting and be consistent across slides for font size, colors, lines, table footnotes, and so forth;
• Make sure that any icon or image (jpg) contribute to the understanding of the message you are attempting to convey with that slide;
• Check very carefully for grammar and spelling and constant punctuation.

Quality of Content:

Here I think of organization of the presentation (logical progressing) and the four "Cs":

• Organization (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results (and Discussion), Conclusions);
• Correctness; (Inaccurate --- partially (in)accurate--- Accurate);
• Completness; (Incomplete --- partially (in)complete --- Complete);
• Clarity; (Confusing --- partially clear --- Crystal Clear);
• Conciseness; (Verbiose --- Concise --- Too brief).

Quality of Oral Presentation:

Never deliver a power presentation without having practiced it multiple time. Focus on the four "Cs":

• Mechanics:
  • Talk to your audience (not to the computer or the projection screen);
  • Use a pointer or build animation as a mean to pace yourself and help your audience match what they hear with what they see.
• Content (what is being said):
  • Demonstrate mastery of the content. Your words must reflect the fact that you know much more than what is on the slide(s);
  • Correctness; (Inaccurate --- partially (in)accurate--- Accurate);
  • Completness; (Incomplete --- partially (in)complete --- Complete);
  • Clarity; (Confusing --- partially clear --- Crystal Clear);
  • Conciseness; (Verbiose --- Concise --- Too brief).