PowerPoint provides a powerful visual aid for presentations. It is easy to use and can incorporate multimedia resources into your presentation, such as images, tables, videos, sound recordings, and animations. But first and foremost, you do need to get the content of your presentation sorted! PowerPoint is simply a tool to present your work.
This video introduces PowerPoint. It shows you how to enter text and insert new slides, format slides and add pictures and sound files to slides.
This video looks at how to make notes within PowerPoint. This can allow you to plan out, and note down, what you will say during the presentation.
To liven up your presentation, you may choose to animate your slides. Animations can allow you to add emphasis to certain parts of your work and can be a way to unfold your presentation step by step. This video looks at standard animation schemes and ‘custom animations’ which gives you full control of the action.
To give your slides a consistent and attractive design, you can try the ready-made slide designs that are available. Finally you can review your work by watching your presentation.
In the corporate world where presentations are a daily occurrence, there is something called Death by PowerPoint. Whilst academics don’t normally suffer the same boredom levels, you could mix things up by using Inspiration’s presentation feature as an alternative. Inspiration will turn mind maps into presentation slides instantly, which this video covers. Jump to the Inspiration videos for an overview on making Mind Maps using Inspiration.