Lunch & Learn: Monday 13th October 2008

Is Powerpoint Evil?

How many times have you suffered Death by Powerpoint? This session highlighted 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

"Internet for Image Searching" is a new, free online tutorial to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/

Garr Reynolds - Presentation Zen

Presentation tips from Gar Reynolds

Google talk on Presentation Zen

Garr Reynolds - 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.