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Beyond the Bullet Points
This excellent site from Microsoft takes its name from the title of a very famous book aimed at improving PowerPoint presentations. Here’s a quote from the site:
- “In Cliff Atkinson’s book Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire, you can learn how to transform your PowerPoint presentations into stories that captivate your audience’s interest. Use the hands-on examples and exercises from this book to strengthen both your PowerPoint presentations and your confidence as a public speaker while you learn professional storytelling techniques and other powerful presentation strategies. The following tools and resources focus on one of the key concepts in the book: how to use the metaphor of a movie script to build your presentation’s message. Using this information, you can begin the process of transforming your message into a story that inspires your audience.”
And here are links to some sections of this site:
- Take Your Presentation Beyond Bullet Points In Three Steps: Use these tips from the screenwriting process to make your presentations clear, direct, and engaging.
- Three Ground Rules For Writing Your Presentation : Clarify and improve the way that you word your message by using these ground rules.
- Set The Stage For Your Presentation’s Story: Answer six key questions for your audience with Act I of your presentation: where, when, who, what, why, and how.
- The Beyond Bullet Points Template: Apply scriptwriting and classic storytelling techniques to your presentation.
- About the Beyond Bullet Points Template: Learn how to use the Beyond Bullet Points story template
Death by Powerpoint
This cleverly done PowerPoint presentation challenges the conventional uses of PowerPoint.
“Avoiding the ‘PowerNap’: Strategies for Active Learning with PowerPoint”
This video includes the PowerPoint instruction which the faculty in the video discuss.
SlideShare
SlideShare is a world-wide community for people who want to share PowerPoint presentations. It has instructions for (easily) downloading any slideshows you want to use publicly or privately and/or embed into a website or a blog.
