PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint presentations are an excellent and easy way to present a series of topics and supporting information. You can select colors for the screen, colors for the text, add images and clipart, and even add sound and movie files.

Converting a PowerPoint file to an html file for the web is very simple now - you just select the "Save for the web" option in the file menu, and all the pages and images and links are created, ready for web!

There are many guidelines for creating powerful and effective PowerPoint presentations, but most of the guidelines are for creating presentations that are used in a face-to-face setting.

When you create a PowerPoint presentation for the web, the number one guideline to remember is to elaborate! You must include all the information for the participants to read. Your content should be complete - so use sentences instead of phrases.

Below is a link to a PowerPoint presentation titled "Powering Through PowerPoint". This presentation contains many guidelines for creating web-based presentations.

Powering Through PowerPoint
Guidelines for Web-based Presentations

 

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PowerPoint Tutorials

This is a link to a series of tutorials created for the Virtual Training and Help Center at Bloomsburg University.

You are welcome to browse through the lessons, and print out anything you would like to review more carefully.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

What do I do after this lesson?

Go back to your eLearning Course Worksheet, and identify what topics could be supported with a PowerPoint presentation.

I would recommend creating a PowerPoint presentation as an overview for your lessons.

Create a PowerPoint presentation with at least 8 slides. Be sure to include a title slide, introduction slide, and a summary slide, as well as some content slides. Save the file as a PowerPoint file, then save it for the web as an html file. Keep these files together, as you will then be able to incorporate them into your Blackboard course site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

copyright 2003 Mary J. Nicholson
last revised October, 2003