Powerpoint basics: Planning, using visuals & keeping it simple

In this recording, Michele Furlong demonstrates some basic ways to use Powerpoint to enhance your teaching. Regardless of whether you teach online, on-campus or blended delivery there are creative ways that Powerpoint slides can be designed to engage students with more than just text. Michele shows how to:

  • Plan your presentation for optimal delivery
  • Enhance the visual appeal of slides
  • Manage Slideshows including animations, transition effects
  • Customise PowerPoint including changing colours, backgrounds, master pages and templates
  • Use shapes and SmartArt to communicate concepts with flow charts or mindmaps
  • Use images to create an impact including how to find and insert images

To contact Michele email michele.furlong@navitas.com or get in touch on Yammer.