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"The following video was created in an infographic style with big simple graphics and text. In the video, I present 8 tips for using PowerPoint to create video infographics."

EdGames contains downloadable games, game templates and utilities that can be used to enhance any lessons. Powerpoint, Excel and Word templates provided.

Recommended Link from Russel Tarr at www.activehistory.co.uk An easy way to make your powerpoint interactive

"Using PowerPoint, Word and Excel to teach with games"

Templates, backgrounds, and music for PowerPoint. Teacher resources for presentations.

Oomfo is a new (beta) add-on site for PowerPoint. Once Oomfo is downloaded users can then create excellent looking, interactive, animated graphs.

Nice clear explanation of using Jing for narrated powerpoint screencast!

ost people use Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations, however there are many other tools which enable creation of more dynamic presentations. One such example is the Prezi web application which is well known for its unique zooming UI. Similarly, Impress.js is a JavaScript library and a free alternative to Prezi. Unfortunately, Prezi comes with a huge price tag and Impress.js can only be utilized by developers. If you are a lay user who wishes to get the functionality of the aforementioned tools to create more innovative presentations, then try Infinite Canvas. As the name suggests, it is a web based canvas which can be used to add images for creating slides which can be zoomed (in and out) like Prezi and Impress.js.

PresentationTube Recorder uses a simple and straight forward technique to capture your own PowerPoint presentations from the comfort of your home or office, and without the need to have Internet connection while recording. PresentationTube provides a FREE version and FULL version of PresentationTube Recorder.

 From the University of Wisconsin comes this set of rubrics for the following topics Cooperative Learning  Research Process/Report  PowerPoint/Podcast  Oral Presentation  Web Page and ePortfolio  Math, Art, Science  Video and Multimedia Project    Creating Rubrics  Writing  Rubrics for Primary Grades  Game and Simulations  Web 2.O

"A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects."

"We recently came across Pecha Kucha, a method of PowerPoint that has changed the landscape of presentations. It's pronounced pechákcha or pechákǝcha or just the slightly dorkier-sounding pecha KOO-cha. Anyway you say it, it is translated as "chitchat," designed and patented by architects Klein/Dytham in Tokyo in 2003. A Pecha Kucha presentation utilizes imagery and efficient use of spoken word to create a seamless, memorable, meaningful and concise presentation. It's a great method for teaching students how to create their best presentations for class project"

Add instant tweets to your presentations.

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This is the YouTube generation, and these students need to be creating content, not consuming it. There are too many tools out there to simply fall back on outdated ways of presenting and sharing information. Basic presentation software makes it simply too easy to cut and paste information without actually learning anything. Students need to be creating content that reaches a broader audience than the people sitting in their classroom. Whether it's making videos, podcasts, or infographics, there are plenty of ways to present and share information in new and unique ways that open the doors to the highest levels of Blooms Taxonomy.

"Somewhere between a PowerPoint presentation and a full-fledged video is the audio slideshow. Creating audio slideshows can be a good way to add meaning to slides that otherwise might not mean much without a presenter. Here are some ways that students can create audio slideshows."

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