The Presentation Design page gives information about good practice concerning the look and feel of your slides, but how do you structure your presentation?
Like an essay, you need a beginning, a middle and an end.
Greet the audience, introduce yourself and your topic
Outline what you will cover and provide a little background to your topic
It's considered good practice by many presentation experts to have one point per slide. There are some good reasons for this:
Each point you want to make should have supporting evidence, so your point goes on one slide and each bit of supporting evidence gets its own slide.
To better achieve one point per slide, reduce your idea down into one sentence. Elaborate upon it in your talk. That way, the slides will help support and remind you of what you want to say. It's bad practice to put everything you want to say in the slide - it will distract the audience. An even worse thing to do is to read from the slide.
This might be an ideal situation; you might have a restriction on the number of slides used or if you've not done any or many presentations, you might not be comfortable minimising the amount of text on a slide. That's ok. Just remember, the content of your slides should support what you are going to say but not literally be the words that you say. If you need bullet points to help you remember, that's fine, but try to not to have too many.
