Death by Power Point
If you search the web, you will find quite a few criticisms of power point presentations.  I very  much like Matthew A. Christian's 
Death by Power Point or Twelve Steps to Better E-Presentations.
    -  Read this document, twice.
    
-  Create a Power Point presentation illustrating  this document.
    
        -  Provide a title slide which includes your name.
	
-  Provide an introduction slide, include the name of the paper and the author.
	
-  Create a slide for each step stating the step and explaining the step.
        
-  For steps 3, 5 ,6, 7 and 9 create two slides:
	
	      -  The first should be an example of a slide that does not follow this advice.
	      
-  The second should be an example of the slide reworked so that it does follow the advice.