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Avoiding Death by Power Point

Paradi, Dave. How to Avoid "Death by Power Point:" Solving the Five Most Common Problems With Power Point Presentations. If you've ever sat through some deadly Power Point presentations you may want to avoid giving one.
http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/articles/avoid_death_by_ppt.htm

Wasu, Shalu (2008). Avoiding Death by Power Point. This author tells you to use your common sense and provides some ideas for providing your own rules for a presentation. (Added September 26, 2009)
http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/avoiding-death-by-powerpoint/

Wasu, Shalu (2009). Power Point is My Slave. By the same author as above, this site has many helpful hints for making or creating a Power Point show eaiser as well as good tips for using these slides in a presentation.
http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/powerpoint-is-my-slave/

Excellent example of dynamic use of Power Point. Must be seen as a slide show so download as a Power Point File (.ppt).
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/~asuman/DogacMalagaTalk.ppt

Wonderful page about how to use Power Point to really teach. Don't plan another Power Point project without visiting this page!
http://www.chemistryland.com/ChemEdArticle/PowerPoint.html

Although one is supposed to present the positives first, this site has not only tips to avoid, but has links to three hilarious You Tube videos about what not to do. (Added September 11, 2009)
http://www.webicina.com/slideshow/how_not_to_give_a_slideshow_68/

 

Charts in Power Point

Bradley, Helen (2008, Nov 26). Create Eye Catching Charts in Power Point 2007.
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/biztools/article.php/3787531

For a more thorough discussion of charts see Charts in chapter 9.

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Clip Art

Best clip art for Power Point is available at Microsoft. These are royalty free.
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us

This site has free clip art for use. They may require you to provide a link to this site if you use the clip art.
http://www.clip-art.com/

Royalty free photos. An enormous collection of photos in many categories.
http://www.sxc.hu/

Clip art can be found in the images section for many search tools. If you look at choices you often will see a selection for images. These may or may not be royalty free. Be sure to check! And only use a graphic if it adds understanding to the slide!

Color

Paradi, Dave. Choosing Colors for Your Presentation Slides. Some sound information about the use of color in slides.
http://www.indezine.com/ideas/prescolors.html

You will find more help about the use of color in Web Presentations see Color in chapter 5

Designing the Slides

A 20 minute presentation both visual and audio by the Kaiser Family Foundation that addresses designing Power Point Slides and the use of numerical graphs. You may want to use Ctrl and the Plus key (+) to make the slides more legible! You can click to any slide at any time. Although this presentation advises a dark background, although this may work in a dark room, it is not as effective in a light room. Ask yourself if these slides would not be more legible if the background was light and the text dark.
http://www.kaiseredu.org/tutorials/effective_graphics/alantutorial_updatedbuttons.html

Halverson, Margo. Hierarchy And Contrast: The Basis of Good Design. The basis for every design decision.
http://www.presentation-pointers.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=399

Lecture Support or Lecture Replacement

University of Michigan School of Nursing. Faculty Instructional Technology Resources - Best Practices
http://www.nursing.umich.edu/facultyresources/bestPractices/ppt.html

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Planning an Effective Presentation

Presentation Planning. Using a logic tree to organize the presentation.
http://www.strategiccomm.com/logictree.html

Ten Commandments of Client Presentations. Translate this into any situation in which you are trying to persuade someone who will be making a decision.
http://www.strategiccomm.com/tencommpres.html

Planning a Presentation

Excellent slide presentation teaching how to prepare for a presentation using slides.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/presenting.ppt

Three elements of communication - and the "7%-38%-55% Rule. Albert Merhabian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian

Poster Creation with Power Point

This site gives step by step instructions together with illustrations for each step. Excellent help! http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/cet/poster/how_to.html

Recording and editing sounds

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Tutorials for Power Point

A series of online tutorials developed by Jeff Radel at the School of Allied Health at Kansas University. Very helpful information.
http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Preparing_talks/103.htm

XP Power Point Tutorials. These two cover different topics. The first one is a "how to" do various tasks. The second one is more theory. Beware, however, it still emphasizes text slides, but these are good points for the text.
http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/ed596/ppoint/pphome.htm
http://www.meetingtomorrow.com/cms-category/powerpoint-tutorial

Power Point 2007 Tutorials
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpoint2007/a/07beginguide.htm
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2007/ppt/index.asp

 

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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

Free download that can convert Power Point® slides to Flash files. Power Point Lite http://www.authorgen.com/authorpoint-lite-free/powerpoint-to-flash-converter.aspx

Free viewer for Power Point 2007 files. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en

Applications and Competencies file. http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

Communicating Effectively with an Audience: Presenting with Power Point. Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/TLCPhD/files/PresentationSkillsHandouts.pdf

Kruchten, P. (2004, January 30). Book review -- The Cognitive Style of Power Point.   Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/2051.html

Morton, J. (1998). Color, the chameleon of the web.   Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.colormatters.com/chameleon.html

New York Times. (2003, December 17). Power Point Makes You Dumb.   Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.unc.edu/~mumukshu/gandhi/gandhi/powerpoint.htm

The Numbers on Why You Need Visuals. (2008). Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.presentersonline.com/basics/visuals/needvisuals.shtml.

Prost, J. 8 Mistakes Made when Presenting with Power Point® and How to Correct Them. Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.frippandassociates.com/artprost2_faa.html

Tips from all aspects of pulling off the successful presentation! (2007).   Retrieved November 19, 2008, from http://www.projectorreviews.com/effectivepresentations.php

Tufte, E. (2003). Power Point Is Evil: Power Corrupts. Power Point Corrupts Absolutely. Journal. Retrieved November 19, 2008 from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

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