PowerPoint Links

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Anyone planning to use PowerPoint in their classroom should read Scoring PowerPoints by Jamie McKenzie.

Links verified on 10/5/2015

1. Avoid Death by PowerPoint with the Scissor Technique - This step-by-step presentation helps you learn how to avoid death by PowerPoint.
2. Awesome Powerpoint Tutorials for free. They also offer a set of PowerPoint tips & hints and links to other PowerPoint tutorials found on the web.
3. Designing an Effective PowerPoint Presentation - This is a thirteen slide presentation that covers the concepts of visual rhetoric, design, and good presentation skills.
4. Free Templates - Twelve free templates to download, unzip and revise to create a great presentation that has never been seen before. Each template is free and has several slides included that are ready to use.
5. Indezine offers five free PowerPoint design templates
6. Office 2007 Tutorials - [These expired links are available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the pages don't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   1. PowerPoint Presentations - creating slide shows and related teaching materials [28 pages]
   2. PowerPoint: Beyond the Basics - Making interactive, non-linear slide shows and enhancing formatting [38 pages]
   3. Office Drawing Tools - Office 2007 version, applicable to Excel and Word also [37 pages]
7. Pete's PowerPoint Station - free PowerPoint slide shows for K-12
8. PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial - from Florida Gulf Coast University ||they also offer a PowerPoint 2007 tutorial || PowerPoint 2013 tutorial
9. PowerPoint Alchemy- Free tutorials, help, hints, tips & techniques which will transform your use of PowerPoint presentations. Templates
10. PowerPoint Heaven - PowerPoint games, artworks, showcases and tutorials on creating advanced animations for your PowerPoint presentations
11. PowerPoint Tips and Tricks - a blog posted by Paul Hill
12. PowerPoint Tutorials and Matching Tests - from Tests Tests Tests [13 tutorials as of 10/26/2016]
13. PowerPoint Tutorials by Chris Clementi - easy to follow directions - kid friendly
14. Presentations Etc - (free presentation resources for students & teachers) - Presentations ETC is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is funded by a grant from the Florida Department of Education, Office of Instructional Technology.
15. Presentation FX - free PowerPoint templates and backgrounds for students and teachers
16. Presenter's Resource - Free PowerPoint templates and information to help you make better presentations. Download free PowerPoint templates, get ideas for better communication and more. Find links to online reference and research tools. Take a look at their settings page for some cool PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts.
17. Sonia Coleman has provided 208 PowerPoint template kits for your personal use. These kits can be downloaded as sets or individually. Use these in your classroom only. She has asked that the templates not be displayed or offered on a web site. Thanks Sonia!
18. Using the Slide Master for Designing Documents - a blog posted by Paul Hill
19. Vicki Blackwell's Powerpoint Teacher Templates - Many ideas for quick lessons with Powerpoint.
20. World of Teaching PowerPoint Shows to download - World of Teaching index
21. Search for PowerPoint shows on the web - In the advanced area of three search engines, you can configure your search to display only PowerPoint slide shows on the results page. See a quick tutorial on using Google to search for PowerPoint shows. || Google advanced search || Yahoo advanced search