Making PowerPoint Slides
I thought this presentation was a great reminder to how to properly make an effective PowerPoint presentation. It included many great tips and reminders on what to do and what not to do. Often times we want to make are PowerPoints stand out and be fancy, but the most important thing is to keep it simple and inform the audience. The PowerPoints we create shouldn't be distracting or full of useless information and this PowerPoint provided key ideas on how to make your PowerPoint the best for your audience.
Creating Good PowerPoints
This article focused on how to make an effective PowerPoint for your audience. The biggest thing I took from this was to have PowerPoints be a visual reinforcement. They should not be a replacement for the speaker, nor should they steal the attention from the speaker. I saw this happen many times in my undergraduate experience. Many teachers would read directly from the PowerPoint and it never captured my attention, nor did it help reiterate what I was learning. This article ties in nicely with the previous PowerPoint.
PowerPoint Slide Master
This video is a great visual aid for anyone that has not worked with PowerPoint before or is still learning how to use it. It would be great to show in a classroom of younger students that may be working on a new project. Personally, I'm very familiar with PowerPoint and this video was a refresher on some of the basic points of PowerPoint.
Kid Pix and PowerPoint
I've never heard of Kid Pix before, but it seems like a more kid friendly version of PowerPoint. Students can create their own artwork as the background and add text to the page as well. I think it would work well with students that are more artistic. Personally, I prefer to use PowerPoint as I'm not artistic, but I think many students would enjoy using Kid Pix over PowerPoint.
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