Lunch & Learn: Monday 13th October 2008

Is Powerpoint Evil?

How many times have you suffered Death by Powerpoint? This session will highlight a few ideas for using PowerPoint in learning & teaching without killing your students.

Katrina Dalziel & Chris Hall

Clickers

About Clickers - http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/clickers

Using Clickers at Swansea University - http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/usingclickers.html

Presentation Slides

Is PowerPoint Evil? Chris Hall

Quotes before session

Free Images

Morgue File - www.morguefile.com

Flickr Creative Commons Pool - www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Image After - www.imageafter.com

Stock.xchang - www.sxc.hu

Everystock Photo Search Engine - www.everystockphoto.com

Garr Reynolds - Presentation Zen

Presentation tips from Gar Reynolds

Google talk on Presentation Zen

Design Tips

PresentationPro.com has some great Flash tutorials including one on color.

Go to the CreativePro.com to learn more about color.

Dummies.com has a good short article on how to use the Color Schemes in PowerPoint.