Archive for the 'PowerPoint' Category
Beg Borrow But Don’t Steal.
OR How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law
Presented at the eTech Ohio 2008 conference by Alvin Trusty and hosted on TeacherTube (www.teachertube.com).
A very good PowerPoint presentation which manages to make the subject of copyright actually interesting. Half of the talk focus’s on copyright while the other considers how you can create a […]
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The 4 slide Contest
Could you sell yourself in four (4) picture-only slides? And not use audio, video, hyperlinks or any multimedia miscellany?
Taken from the blog of Dan Meyer. He posted this starting a 1 week contest with readers submitting using the comment facility.
This is quite interesting and I wonder if it could be extended to other uses, […]
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Death by PowerPoint
Nice little slide show on PowerPoint design. Although being pitched at the corporate environment the tips also extend towards our context. Slide 40 in is well worth remembering especially if you have a habit of placing too much text ion the slide. Also I like the stats and the way the author has referenced them […]
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SlideShare - the YouTube of presentations
Increasingly I’m seeing examples of embedded PowerPoint (and other type) presentations in blogs, wikis and websites in general. Essentially what we have is SlideShare which is a sort of YouTube for presentations. It uses the same basic format as YouTube in which you can upload your slides for other users to view, comment on and rate. […]
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Tips on effective presentation design
From the blog of Vicki A. Davis (Cool Cat Teacher Blog) a nice set of links on effective PowerPoint design together with some examples.
I’ve embedded a couple of the examples below (via SlideShare - kind of a version of ‘YouTube’ but for slide presentations rather than video).
[slideshare id=54123&doc=creative-web-20-learning-5570&w=425]
[slideshare id=60448&doc=microblogging-tiny-social-objects-on-the-future-of-participatory-media-2898&w=425]
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Life after Death by Powerpoint
Very funny video on death by Powerpoint by comedian Don McMillan. Some of the ‘finer’ points of slide design are covered. I completely agree with his comments about Times New Roman.
Life After Death by PowerPoint
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