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Free PowerPoint templates to make your own animated slides. "There are many transitions that you can also make in your own PowerPoint presentation but starting with an animated PowerPoint template lets you avoid spending so much time creating the animated templates from scratch." In PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 there are many already defined animated effects that you can use. For example, you may choose to use cool animations for PowerPoint like Cover effects, Blinds effect, Shape Diamond effect, Wheel effect and even more. Usually you start with your PowerPoint presentation file with no effects. Once you start building your slides you can add new effects to the slide transitions. When playing the presentation then your audience will see a transition between the slides."

"Cheating Death by PowerPoint teaches you to make great PowerPoint presentations by avoiding some common mistakes." This is a good show on how to really use PowerPoint creatively. But try Prezi, too. PowerPoint, as the presentation makes clear, seems to want you to fail. This slideshow shows how to overcome the inherent faults of the typical ppt theme and make your shows more interesting to students.

"Use this downloadable PowerPoint show, complete with script in the Notes area, to walk students through the process of creating an infographic. The show includes tips on using the tools available in PowerPoint to "build" infographics right on a PowerPoint slide and save it as an image file. Even if you do not use PowerPoint, the tips will apply in any visual tool from Google Docs/Drive Drawing to a full image editing program such as Photoshop. Please note and respect the copyright notice on this show." A nice sample lesson and ideas on constructive criticism and a customizable rubric in Word doc.

"SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free." Free app to share presentations. Save creations as PowerPoint, or slideshow.

"SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free." Free app to share presentations. Save creations as PowerPoint, or slideshow.

These are simple instructions for creating an easy T-F or even MCQ quiz using Powerpoint. This is a nice backup if you can't get online to SurveyMonkey. It might be a good challenge for students to create their own quizzes or a kind of flashcard set.

Napa County, CA, middle school ELLs learn how to use PowerPoint

"Several new tools allow you to type the text you would normally say, and have text-to-speech technology (TTS) generate the voiceover for you. Later, if the content changes, editing the typed text will be way easier than re-recording an entire voiceover. Read on to learn about three different TTS tools for PowerPoint." As the text-to-speech technology gets better, this is a great solution, and has the advantage of giving students some practice in listening/reading.

"PresentationTube is a free service that teachers can add narration to their PowerPoint presentations. In addition to adding narration to your slides, PresentationTube can be used to add whiteboard drawings, webcam images, and webpages to your presentations. Completed presentations are displayed with a slide in the center of the screen and the slide navigator to the right. The slide navigator allows you to skip forward or backward in presentations with the narration in sync." Seems to be rather more sophisticated than PowerPoint alone, and might be very useful for ESL students since they can control the slide they see. T/H to R. Byrne.

Lots of good ideas for using PowerPoint and Win MovieMaker in the classroom for student projects. Includes templates, for example, for writing story maps, timelines, and genealogy tables with PowerPoint.

"Slidesgo offers over 100 high-quality, free presentation templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint. When you find a presentation template that you like, just click a button to either download the PowerPoint Template or make a copy of the Google Slides theme to your Google Drive. This collection of templates is beautifully designed and fully customizable." T/h N LaFave

This is another way to turn a PowerPoint presentation into something more useful. You can start with pictures or PowerPoint files, then add text to describe each slide. The text will be converted to speech (20 languages/ 70+ voices) as a voiceover. The completed slides and audio are then converted to video and published on YouTube. This might be a fun project for students, and may possibly help with their writing skills.

Blog that tells how to use the PowerPoint template to make a visual puzzle. Might be fun to try with a class of learners--they make the puzzles for each other.

"Educators and trainers can select and download those PowerPoint games that support your learning objectives and are compatible with the technology capabilities of your learning environment. We hope you enjoy the site and we welcome your feedback." Each game is a download and includes a ppt with a sample game and ppt template to use to make your own game.

"Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. "Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen. " This sound like a great tool to make your presentations interactive, get students attention and help them learn as you teach.

"Transform your class presentation with video and images: A 5-minute makeover (video)" Well, it takes a little longer to find the images and video that liven it up, but the helpful templates inside of PowerPoint can be used to much better effect than you might believe.

"Here are the top five iPad apps that can serve as PowerPoint alternatives." If you are a Mac addict, there are some juicy apps here. And most will work on iMac as well as iPhone and iPad.

Add a voiceover or video to your PPT presentation with PowerPoint, Google Docs or PDF (Keynote and Prezi). This useful little screencast app helps make your ppt more understandable. Or have students use it to make their own presentations. R. Stannard's training video shows how it works: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/presentme/index.html

A very useful demonstration of how to make a good PowerPoint presentation. Might be very useful for helping students design their projects.

"Create online and mobile video presentations "Simply Upload PowerPoints, documents, photos or video clips "Add audio by phone, microphone or MP3" Appears to be a nice, free alternative to audio programs to enter audio files to your PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress presentations.

"Presentation Tube is a service that teachers and students can use to record, share, and watch presentations. Presentation Tube provides a free desktop tool (Windows only) that you can use to record a video of yourself talking over and drawing on slides. The Presentation Tube recorder automatically synchronizes your PowerPoint slides with your voice. The free recording tool allows you to record for up to 15 minutes. Your completed recording can be uploaded directly to Presentation Tube."