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=**Tips for PowerPoint Presentations:**=

//**Keep it simple!**//
The [|Takahashi Method]--a grassroots trend in Japan started by Masayoushi Takahashi--uses slides that are usually a mix of full-screen, high-quality photos, some charts/graphs, and slides with single words, short phrases, or short quotations. The idea of using very, very large type on screen is a good one. Though photos and graphics can be most effective, when using text on a slide, we would be well advised to keep it large and concise.

[|Guy Kawasaki]--a published author on presentation skills--says, "It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have **ten slides**, last no more than **twenty minutes**, and contain no font smaller than **thirty points**...Get in, get out, and don’t make people squint. Awesome."

Read more: [|How I Made My Presentations A Little More Interesting] Seth's got some good ideas for creating PowerPoints: Check out [|Really Bad PowerPoint].

//**PowerPoint Resources **//
[|PowerPoint Tutorials from Internet 4 Classrooms] [|Embedding Video into 2007 PowerPoint] [|Inserting YouTube video into 2003 or 2007 PowerPoint]

//**Want an Alternative to PowerPoint? Try these sites: **//
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 * [|Capzles.com]--This site is great for posting information in a linear arrangement. Post pictures, videos, mp3s, and blog entries in a multimedia time line.
 * [|Glogster.com]--This site is a great site for creating an online poster. Posters can be embedded into wikis, glogs, websites, etc., or you can share the link to your creation. Want to use this great tool with students? Please use the [|EDU]site. It restricts publication and screens materials students can use. Students can view each other's glog creations if they are in the same class.
 * [|Animoto]--think MTV flashy video. Make a video that visually represents what you want to emulate in your presentation. Animoto video can be embedded in blogs or wikis, or they can be downloaded and embedded into PowerPoint. This site also offers [|EDU features]: educators receive free upgraded accounts that eliminate the need for student email addresses. **//This is so easy, first graders can do it!//** Take a look at the example below:

=MS Office Publisher=

Resources:
[|Six Great Tips for MS Publisher 2007] M[|S Office Publisher Help] [|MS Office Publisher 2007 Tutorials] //**NEW! **//
 * If you need more PowerPoint background themes, the themes from this site, [|Presentations ETC], are free downloads for people in education.**