Workshop - putting more punch in PowerPoint

It's a PowerPoint world out there: every day, around the globe, literally millions of professionals, workers, and students alike are alternately entertained, bored, or downright assaulted by Microsoft's ubiquitous presentation manager. As the reigning gold standard, PowerPoint offers speakers a whole host of seductive special effects and prefabricated designs to make developing a presentation a snap. This, however, is precisely the problem; increasingly, speakers fall prey to the array of flashy accouterments and forget the purpose of presentation graphics: to visually enhance the speaker's message and assist the audience in retaining the information. This workshop will focus on providing information, via a variety of activities, that will enable participants to develop more visually pleasing presentations, which will, in turn, result in an improved experience for the audience, whether it be students or professional colleagues.