7 December: Presentation software

Here is the presentation, annotated:

Basic introduction to using presentations to support teaching

There are unsurprisingly plenty of presentations on presentations at SlideShare; see, for example, this one. But then ask yourself how that style would fit with your classes.

There's a good tutorial on embedding YouTube in PowerPoint at: http://www.labnol.org/software/insert-youtube-video-in-powerpoint-presentations/5393/ but note that it uses PPt 2010. The principles however are the same.

The Edward Tufte article is here. And see the links from the previous post.

There is advice on fonts for people with dyslexia here and here.

Useful key combinations for Windows, sorry if this is teaching you to suck eggs:

• Alt+tab cycles between all open program
• Ctrl+S saves the current program
• Shift+Ctrl+S "Save as"
• Ctrl+C Copy highlighted items
• Ctrl+X Cut highlighted items
• Ctrl+V Paste from clipboard
• Ctrl+Z Undo last action
• Window key+D straight to the desktop from any program
• Window key+E brings up Windows Explorer 
• Ctrl+f4 closes current document
• Alt+f4 closes current program

(Note: "+" simply means "with"--you don't have to type the + sign. Case does not matter.)