> PowerPoint: Tips and Tricks

Ellen Qualey, Emerging Technologies Librarianequaley@umn.edu

>Why PowerPoint?

Slide ContentThemes or Templates

Embed Multimedia

Graphics

Presenter Tools

>Themes and Templates

>Themes and Templates

Law School PowerPoint Template

UMN PowerPoint Templates

Save Your Own Theme or Template

>Slide Content

Zen/Striped Rock, by Mandolux

>Slide Content

• Limit bullet points and text

• Use graphics and multimedia

• Avoid reading slides

>Graphics

Pie

ApplePumpkinPecanCherry

Introduced in House

• H.R. 2590

Passed into Law

• Pub. L. 111-148 OR 124 Stat. 119

Text of Law Codified

• 42 U.S.C. ' 18001 note

>Graphics

Insert Clip Art Search by Keyword and Click to Insert

>Graphics

Simmons’s Law Agent, 1871-1875, State Library of New South Wales

Insert Picture Select Your Image File and Click “Open”

>Graphics

http://www.flickr.com/commons

http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/

>Graphics

U.S. District Courts, Civil and Criminal Cases FiledCivil Criminal

1990: 217,013 47, 9621995: 248,335 45,7882000: 259,517 62,7452005: 253,273 69, 5752010: 282,895 78,428

Source: United States Courts, Judicial Facts and Figures, Tables 4.1, 5.1 (2005, 2010), http://www.uscourts.gov/Statistics/JudicialFactsAndFigures/JudicialFactsAndFigures2010.aspx

Insert Chart Select Type of Chart and Click “OK”

>Graphics

>Adding Video or Audio

Copy Embed Code Insert Video Video From Web Site

>Presenter Tools

• Animations• Highlighting and Pointer• Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Mac

F1 or Right Click Ctrl + Click Shortcut Menu

W or B W or B White or Black slide; press W or B to return

Slide # + Enter Slide # + Enter Goes to that slide

>Additional Resources

Lisa A. Burke & Karen James, Effectiveness of PowerPoint-Based Lectures Across Different Business Disciplines: An Investigation and Implications, 84 J. EDUC. FOR BUS. 246 (2009)

Debroah J. Merritt, Legal Education in the Age of Cognitive Science and Advanced Classroom Technology, 14 B.U. J. SCI. & TECH. L. 39 (2008)

Chien Yu & Mariah L. Smith, PowerPoint: Is it an Answer to Interactive Classrooms? 35 INT’L J. OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA 271 (2008)