Resources for Teaching Well with PowerPoint
Workshop: Presentation Zen
Tips and Techniques
- Speed presentations
- Polling
- Poll Everywhere - polling without clickers
- Clickers
- Using video in PowerPoint
- SmartArt in MS Office
- Design tips
More
- Presentation bingo
- I am PowerPoint: text | MP3 (poem by Chris Clark)
Alternatives
- Eleven ways NOT to use PowerPoint
- Prezi
- Web-based: SlideRocket and 280 Slides | Google Presentations
- Desktop: Keynote (Mac) or OpenOffice Impress (open-source, cross-platform)
Videos
- Guy Kawasaki - 10/20/30 rule (YouTube)
- Don McMillan - Life After Death by PowerPoint (YouTube)
Articles
- PowerPoint is not the problem - from our blog
- Active Learning with PowerPoint (U of MN)
- Teaching Naked (NTLF) follow-up with video (Chronicle)
- Turning Heads with PowerPoint (Wired)
- Learning to Love PowerPoint (Wired)
- PowerPoint is Evil (Wired)
- PowerPoint is not Evil (NTLF)
- PowerPoint No! (NTLF)
- Gettysburg PowerPoint (Peter Norvig)
Books
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Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Powerpoint® To Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate and Inspire. Atkinson, Cliff
ND library: HF 5718.22 .A87 2005 -
The cognitive style of PowerPoint : pitching out corrupts within. Tufte, Edward
ND Chem/Physics library: P 93.5 .T838 2006 -
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
Reynolds, Garr. New Riders Press, 2008. ISBN: 0321525655
