This website provide examples of how to use PowerPoint in various ways, including examples from Lexington School district, multimedia story telling, and lectures. This site is good for beginner PowerPoint users.
FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools
Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? A prototype version of the PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.
isualBee enhances your plain presentation in PowerPoint automatically, creating an exciting and powerful showcase. It's the graphic design PowerPoint plugin you need. Learn how VisualBee can help you right now.
Share PowerPoint presentations and slide shows online on authorSTREAM. Upload PPT presentations and get embed code, download presentations as video, transfer to iPods and send to YouTube
With this site you can upload a PowerPoint and record a webcam video to play along side it. Great for distance or self directed learning. Use it to give instructions to your class.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
We all get overloaded from time to time, especially toward the end of a term when your todo list turns from being measured by points to metres. We all have our own capacity to deal with the issues at hand, and the ideas behind Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) attempt to maximise our bandwidth while streamlining the signals.
The origins of the theory go back to the 1980s when a plethora of digital innovations changed how presentations were done in the business world. This trickled down in the following decades into how teachers presented ideas, moving away from blackboard and Over-Head Projectors to digitalised PowerPoint presentations. As with any new innovation, form overcame function, and for a period in the early noughties, I swear it must have been the law to cram as many animations and sound effects into every PowerPoint, and reading every word from the screen aloud was mandatory.
I myself am a long-time sufferer of YouTube-block (despite my understanding of my District's motivations) and I have developed a variety of strategies for treating the condition.
I have seven suggestions:
Kiersten, one of my very favorite students, discovered a strategy for including YouTube (and other Flash) videos in PowerPoint presentations and along the way introduced me to Wikihow. (That site is worthy of its own post for sure!). Anyway, the seniors are having great success adding videos directly into their PowerPoints. It's gone kinda viral as an alternate to linking or to downloading and converting videos to WMVs using Zamzar.