Slidesharing resources

You will find many slide creation and sharing tools online. Here are a few popular slidesharing resources:

Learning to Use PowerPoint

PowerPoint presentations don't need to be boring or simplistic. PowerPoint offers a surprisingly robust set of tools for academic work.

You may:

• add recorded narration to your slideshow
• customize the look and feel of your slides and transitions between slides
• embed video, audio, and images
• and more - all to make the content of your presentations reflect the complexity of your subject and engage your audience.

Check out these short tutorial videos from Microsoft. Subjects covered include everything from getting started to more advanced formatting. 

Using Instagram

An example from Instagram

Photos can be an extremely effective and powerful messaging tool. Check out the Instagram account of Charity: Water, an organization that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in need around the world:n and safe drinking water to people in need around the world.

Another example

Here's one model: a slide presentation on how to conduct an oral history interview, courtesy of SlideShare, from My StoryCatcher.com

On Campus Computers & In the Digital Media Lab:

Did you know you can access Adobe Photoshop on the computers here on campus? Photoshop is the software for editing and manipulating images found in Adobe's Creative Cloud. 

Additional Photo Options:

Customize your presentations with your own photos. There are many options for free, downloadable photo editing software:

Need more help?

Try these helpful tutorials.