Page revised 2/24/11

Resources for Teaching Well with PowerPoint

• Workshop Materials
• Tips and Techniques
• Alternatives
• Videos, articles and books

Workshop Materials

• Workshop info
• Slide show (SlideShare)
• Handout (Notre Dame only)
• Presentation bingo
• I am PowerPoint: text | MP3 (poem by Chris Clark)
• Slideshow keyboard shortcuts
  • Windows - PPT 2007 | PPT 2010
  • Macintosh - PPT 2011
• Seven (+?) resources for better PowerPoint

Tips and Techniques

• Speed presentations
  • Pecha Kucha – presentations in under 7 minutes
  • Ignite
• Polling
  • Poll Everywhere - polling without clickers
  • Clickers
• Using video in PowerPoint
• SmartArt in MS Office
• Design tips

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, Articles and Books

• Guy Kawasaki - 10/20/30 rule (YouTube)
• Don McMillan - Life After Death by PowerPoint (YouTube)

• 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)

• 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