Power Point Tutorials

(and suggestions on how to create a great Power Point)

Power Point Tutorial
http://www.actden.com/pp/
Microsoft Powerpoint Tutorial http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.htm

Other Resources to help you:

Time yourself:

• Online Stopwatch (use this site to time and pace out your presentations)

Check out some good examples:

• TED (watch speeches from the worlds best thinkers)
• American Rhetoric Great Speech Bank
• MIT Professor Patrick Wilson’s “How to Speak” lecture

Some tips for creating powerful, engaging, cool Power Point Presentations:

• Try to think of your Power Point as something for the audience not for you. It needs to capture the attention of the listener/viewer.
• Consider NOT using bullets. DON’T cram a bunch of information on one slide. It’s hard on your audience.
• Try using one powerful image per slide–avoid clipart.
• There is no set rule on the number of slides you must use. Use as many as you need and move through some quickly and spend more time on others.
• When using quotes try to look for the “heart”  of the message and shorten it as much as you can.
• Consider using rhetorical devices  such as irony, metaphors, repetition, questions etc.
• Your PPT presentation should evoke concepts, ideas and feelings  in your audience but your entire presentation, your voice, where you pause, the emphasis you give each slide completes the entire picture for them.
• Be creative

Dr. Joyce Valenza’s Wiki page on Digital Storytelling and Powerpoint Reform:

(this incredible site helped me see Power Points in a totally different light)

http://informationfluency.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling+and+Reforming+PowerPoint