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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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