Advanced PowerPoint
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

 

 

 

 

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Prerequisite:

Previously created and presented a PowerPoint presentation (i.e., familiar with views [normal, outline, slide, sorter], bullets, adding images, backgrounds, transitions).

Objectives:

This session will help you:

• Avoid PowerPointlessness with antidotes for PowerPoint Poisoning!
• Learn new skills such as custom animation, action buttons, embedding sound/video and discover new resources
• Explore effective use of PowerPoint in teaching and learning, including free Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire templates for your content
• Determine the best PowerPoint approach for your learning environment
• Use web based presentation tools for collaborative learning

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PowerPointlessness -

Watch Don McMillan's comedic slant on "Death by PowerPoint"

 

Custom Animation

Advance PowerPoint-Custom Animation.ppt

Action Buttons

PowerPoint How To.pdf

Embedding Sound/Video

embedding_video_in_powerpoint.pdf

Effective Use of PowerPoint in Teaching and Learning

Match PowerPoint to Learning Environment

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Resources:

Shareski, D. PowerPoint Extreme Makeover. November 23, 2006. Retrieved on December 21, 2006 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1OixM_118

The Gettysburg PowerPoint Address

Click to Add Title - A PowerPoint competition between two folks demonstrate a variety of "good, bad, and ugly"

PowerPoint and Presentation Tips - Though a bit dated, there are some detailed tutorials on this Dreamingdog Studio site.

PowerPoint Examples and Templates

 

Coleman_M_PP1_InfoOverload.ppt

Coleman_M_PP2_PowerPoint.ppt

BlankJeopardyTemplate.ppt

jeopardy 2.ppt

Millionaire_Template.ppt

Books and Articles

(*Note:  Though many of the following are not directly related to education/teaching, there are parallels to learning).

  Atkinson, C. (2005). Beyond bullet points:  Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations that inform, motivate and inspire.

Bell, S. J. (June/July 2004). End PowerPoint dependency now. American Libraries. pp. 56-58. Retrieved on January 4, 2007 from http://www.ala.org/al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=selectedarticles&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=69066

Clark, T. (October 2004). Slam Dunk Lesson Plan Format #6 - The PowerPoint Special. From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal. Vol 14. No. 1. Retreived on January 4, 2007 from http://fno.org/oct04/slamdunk6.html

Godin, S. (n.d.). Really bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it). Retrieved on January 4, 2007 from http://www.ispi.org/pdf/BadPwrpt.pdf#search=%22seth%20godin%20powerpoint%22

McKenzie, J. (September 2000). Scoring power points. From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal. Vol 10. No. 1. Retrieved on January 4, 2007 from http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html

Rocklin, T. (n.d.). PowerPoint is not evil. National and Teaching Learning Forum. Retrieved on January 4, 2007 from http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/notevil.htm

Tufte, E. R. (September 2003). PowerPoint is evil. Wired Magazine. Retrieved on January 4, 2007 from  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2_pr.html

  Tufte, E.R. (2003). The cognitive style of PowerPoint

Tutorials

• Microsoft Office Online - Animations I: Preset and Custom Animations
• Microsoft Office Online - Animations II:  Motion Paths
• Microsoft Office Online - Animations III:  Timings
• Microsoft Office Online - So that's how! Great PowerPoint Features

Where to get good images - free!! (Be sure to read the fine print and give attribution)

• MorgueFile

• Flickr's Creative Commons Pool
• Flickr Creative Commons - with automatic editing, including attribution
• EveryStockPhoto
• Stock.xchng
• Image*After
• OpenPhoto

Web Based Presentation Tools

• SlideShare - web-based collaborative PowerPoint for student (or other) group projects - does require free registration for account
• Thumbstacks - web-based presentation - no need for PowerPoint here, but will need a user account
• Zoho Show - online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations - requires free registration