#27686
PowerPoint Heaven - Shadow Fighter Series
Shadow Fighter is a PowerPoint Movie. An animated show or movie done in PowerPoint mimicking the style of Arcade Fighting games. Shadow Fighter Series will show you how PowerPoint can do extreme complex animations similar to Macromedia Flash!
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2006). Design>Multimedia>Presentations>Microsoft PowerPoint
#26437
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate
Contains tutorials on creating amazing animations for your PowerPoint Presentations.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#20361
Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall. Yet slideware--computer programs for presentations--is everywhere.
Tufte, Edward. Wired (2003). Articles>Presentations>Multimedia>Microsoft PowerPoint
#25324
What does one of the world's leading authorities on usability say about PowerPoint? As cofounder of the Neilsen Norman Group and author of the classic The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman is a strong advocate of user-centered design and simplicity. Surprisingly, Norman disagrees with PowerPoint's most vocal critic, information design guru Edward Tufte.
Norman, Donald A. Sociable Media (2004). Articles>Presentations
#20999
PowerPoint is the world's most popular tool for presenting information. There are 400 million copies in circulation, and almost no corporate decision takes place without it. But what if PowerPoint is actually making us stupider?
Thompson, Clive. New York Times, The (2003). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#22781
When I convert my PowerPoint presentations to PDF, why do they become so huge? How can I get around this?
PDFzone (2004). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#24192
PowerPoint Presentations: A Speaker's Guide 
Vinton Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, reportedly parodied the well-known quote about the cost of attaining power, observing that if power corrupts, 'PowerPointcorrupts absolutely.' Pointed though Cerf’s statement is, it places far too much blame on the software. After all, speakers must take some responsibility for their presentations. As in any other form of communication, you must decide what you’re going to say and how you plan to say it. But once that’s done, you need to use all the skills at your disposal to make the chosen medium work for you.
Hart, Geoffrey J.S. Intercom (2004). Articles>Presentations>Rhetoric>Microsoft PowerPoint
#18856
PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools- all designed to be easy to use and learn. This presentaton gives you a quick overview of what you can do in PowerPoint.
University of Rhode Island. Design>Software>Presentations>Microsoft PowerPoint
#20540
PowerPoint Tutorial: Adding Sound to a PowerPoint Show
There are many sites where you can download or buy MIDI or Audio files on the web. Many of these sites offer illegal sound clips. Finding sound clips on the Web is very easy--simply do a search for sound clips, and you'll be directed to many different web pages. Just be sure that you can legally use these sound clips before putting them on your site.
Presenters University (2001). Articles>Presentations>Methods>Microsoft PowerPoint
#28491
PowerPoint Tutorial: Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
This PowerPoint tutorial is just what you need to get up to speed using PowerPoint to create engaging and effective presentations. Whether you're creating a presentation for an informal gathering, a school or classroom assignment, or one for your business partners or associates, PowerPoint is a powerful tool that will help get the job done. Each PowerPoint tutorial features text and screen shots, and some include narrated multimedia tutorials in Flash.
Guides and Tutorials (2006). Articles>Documentation>Presentations>Microsoft PowerPoint
#32015
The use of PowerPoint (PPT)-based lectures in business classes is prevalent, yet it remains empirically understudied in business education research. The authors investigate whether students in the contemporary business classroom view PPT as a novel stimulus and whether these perceptions of novelty are related to students' self-assessment of learning. Results indicate that the degree of novelty that undergraduate business students associate with PPT-based teaching significantly relates to their perceptions of PPT's impact on cognitive learning and classroom interaction. Students' views of PPT as a novel stimulus are also associated with their perception of specific constructive and dysfunctional classroom behaviors and attitudes. The authors discuss their findings and offer implications for instructors and researchers in business education.
Burke, Lisa A. and Karen E. James. Business Communication Quarterly (2008). Articles>Education>Presentations>Microsoft PowerPoint
#13108
Practice and Feedback in Technical Tutorials
To be effective, technical tutorials need to offer learners the opportunity to put information into action and to assess their performance through well designed practice sessions. Research findings on practice modules suggest the appropriate levels of difficulty, structure of practice sessions, and optimal forms of feedback.
Krull, Robert. STC Proceedings (2001). Presentations>Documentation>Documentation
#10227
Preparing Outstanding Presentations: Effective Visuals
Good visuals can strengthen your presentation tremendously - but unfortunately, they're rare. Here are their four key attributes: few, big, simple, and (occasionally) memorable. How many visuals per minute? People often ask me how many visuals they should use per minute of speech. I think they hope I will say expansively, 'As many as you like!' Instead, I tell them the opposite: 'Use no more than you really need.' The key is this: Use a visual only if it has a clear purpose.
Reimold, Cheryl. IEEE PCS (2000). Presentations>Advice
#10228
Preparing Outstanding Presentations: Making Visuals Memorable 
We saw how to create clean visuals that support your points. In essence, this involves 1) keeping text big (at least 18-point) so it can be read easily from the back of the room and 2) minimizing clutter (grids,numbers, legends, and unnecessary details). If you do that, your visuals will work for you rather than compete against you. This time, we will discuss how to make some of your visuals not just effective but memorable.
Reimold, Cheryl. IEEE PCS (2000). Presentations>Advice
#10229
Preparing Outstanding Presentations: The Basic Structure
Last time, I showed you that answering three questions will give you the right main message and key points for a strong presentation: 1. Who are my listeners? 2. What do I want them to do or believe? 3. What are their main needs and interests? Once you have the message and key points, you need to fit them into a structure that will produce the response you want. There is one structure that works uniformly well for all presentations technical or non-technical, informative or persuasive. It consists of three parts, which I will discuss more fully in upcoming columns. Here, I want to show you what the structure is and why it will always work for you.
Reimold, Cheryl. IEEE PCS (2000). Presentations>Advice
#10230
Preparing Outstanding Presentations: The Summary
In this series, I have described a universal presentation structure consisting of introduction, body, and summary. Parts 3 and 4 discussed the introduction and the body in detail. This time, we'll see how to close the presentation with an effective summary.
Reimold, Cheryl. IEEE PCS (2000). Presentations>Advice
#10226
Preparing Outstanding Presentations: Understanding Your Audience
A presentation is a great chance to further your career. The reason is simple: most presentations are ill conceived and poorly delivered. So, if you can become one of the few who do it right, you'll stand out like a shining beacon in a dark wasteland. People will pick you for key projects because they can count on you to sell the work at presentation time. In this series, we look at the principles that enable you to prepare outstanding, career-boosting presentations.
Reimold, Cheryl. IEEE PCS (2000). Presentations>Advice
#28545
This tutorial presents a brief overview of the process for preparing presentation slides, introduces you to important design principles to consider as you prepare your slides, and helps you analyze the design of sample presentation slides.
Battalio, John T. Bedford-St. Martin's (2007). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#13238
Preparing Students and Employees for Global Technical Communication
American businesses that fail overseas most frequently do so because of “an inability to understand and adapt to foreign ways of thinking and acting” (Ferraro). While educators must prepare students for the global marketplace, so too must corporations train employees currently in the workforce to help them deal with the challenges of doing business internationally. This paper presents a university course and a corporate training program that introduce the key issues of building effective global teams to students and employees respectively.
Flammia, Madelyn, Colin B. Kemp and Barbara Greene. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Education>International
#13388
Preparing Text for Online Display
It would be difficult to find a credible source that argues against the position that (all other things being equal) the best online documentation results when you develop text explicitly for the online medium. And not just the online medium but more precisely for a particular display program and hardware environment. However, for one of any number of reasons, the development of text for online display may have to be the product of an automated process on text that was either developed originally for some paper-based document publication program or from text that contains generic markup (such as SGML). Regardless of how the text itself is generated, there remain several aspects to designing an online display that must be considered by all information developers.
Schwartz, David M. STC Proceedings (1993). Presentations>Web Design
#14369
Preparing World-Ready Information Products
This post-conference seminar offers a 360-degree view of how to develop information products for the world. We use case studies, exercises, and lots of lively discussion to give you a crash course in preparing world-ready information products. Participants leave with a copy of the slides, an exercise booklet, an extensive bibliography that includes print, Web, and Internet references, a list of professional associations, tools information, plus lots of great ideas. Participants are encouraged share specific problems and to bring samples of translated materials, style guides, translation checklists, and so on, for display and perusing during the seminar.
Hoft, Nancy L. STC Proceedings (1997). Presentations>Information Design
#13119
We have added so many visual and electronic aspects to our courses that there is little time for the basic skill of technical communication—clear writing that communicates a specific message to a specific audience for a specific purpose. Because we cannot provide instruction in all skills and strategies students need for all jobs now and in the future, we should focus on the basic concepts required for writing any document in any medium. We must help students learn to transfer the skills and strategies for one communication project to the next; we must help them learn to learn.
Boiarsky, Carolyn. STC Proceedings (2001). Presentations>Writing>International
#13948
Suzanna Laurent discusses how we can add value to our work through presentation skills and techniques.
Laurent, J. Suzanna. Prodigy (2002). Presentations>Advice
#21631
Las presentaciones tienden a ser más visuales y menos textuales. Convertir cada concepto en una imagen es el reto y, a la vez, la solución.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2003). (Spanish) Presentations>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Technical Illustration
#28753
Presentation on Writing and Web 2.0
This is presentation Keith Hoffman gave on writing and Web 2.0 at the University of Wisconsin. If you recall, Keith wrote the feature article in January's Intercom on Web 2.0.
Hoffman, Keith. Tech Writer Voices (2007). Presentations>Web Design>Writing>Podcasts
