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General Information

  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint home page - Authoritative short articles on using the presentation packages, as well as features like "clip art of the day"
  • Indezine PowerPoint Links- Links to newsgroups, tips, tutorials, templates, companion programs, etc. geared to the high-powered presenter
  • PowerPoint FAQ - A broad collection of links to troubleshooting, tutorial, design, and other PowerPoint sites
  • PowerPoint Resources- Made for a K-12 teacher-inservice, this site includes a short list of links to tutorials, clip art, presentation tips, and general sites

Tutorials

  • Florida Gulf Coast PowerPoint 2000 - A good, free tutorial with ample screenshots that clearly presents the basices of the program
  • Land-Grant Training Alliance- Tutorials for several versions of PowerPoint, as well as other presentation programs
  • PowerPoint 2000 Basics - A tutorial created by an instructional designer in the Indiana University School of Nursing, this tutorial does a good job of covering the basics of PowerPoint with ample screenshots
  • PowerPoint Class- Designed for university educators in the UK, this is a comprehensive, well-designed tutorial addressing basics, as well as issues like putting your presentation online and pedagogy.
  • PowerPoint in the Classroom - A friendly, cartoonish tutorial for K-12 teachers based on PowerPoint 97.
  • PowerPoint Tutorial - A teacher ed tutorial site

Design

Presentations

Teacher-Oriented

  • Scoring PowerPoints- A Jamie MacKenzie article on training students to avoid "PowerPoint poisoning" covering design and presentation from someone who does it for a living
  • Education Examples - Links to student projects as well as templates for PowerPoint-based games like "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" and "Jeopardy"
  • Games Kids Play- A Library of Congress page for teachers showing them how to teach students to create PowerPoints using LOC resources
  • PowerPoint Resources- A general link page oriented to educators with ties to sites with tutorials, copyright information, examples, and rubric pages

Critical Views

  • PowerPoint is Evil (criticism)- A Wired magazine article..."At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple."
  • Gettysburg PowerPoint- Illustrates the point that not all presentations are enhanced by the PowerPoint approach

 

 
   

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