Faculty Support Services for Teaching with Technology

• Making Presentations with PowerPoint (Introduction) (PDF)
  Learn how to create and edit a PowerPoint presentation. Learn to add images and graphs into your presentation. Understand some design considerations for a presentation and the use of a presentation in a class lecture.
• Creating Hyperlinked Presentations (PDF)
  Learn how to incorporate web links, hyperlinks, and buttons into a presentation, and to build an index slide to enable non-linear presentations. Learn to set up custom slide show, and how to show and hide individual slides.
• Compressing Images in a Presentation (PDF)
  See how to quickly compress the images in a presentation.
• Creating a Web-based Mulitimedia Presentation (PDF)
  Review design considerations for presentations that will be viewed on the web. Learn how to add slide-by-slide narration to a presentation and export the sample presentation to web pages. Upload the sample presentation to the web after compressing the PowerPoint web files.
  

Features and advantages of presentation software:

• presentations can be updated or rearranged, right to the last minute
• can incorporate color pictures, graphs, sounds, and movies seamlessly
• color and motion can be used to capture and sustain attention and to enhance understanding
• improves the visibility of content and materials for students in large classes
• can print outlines or snapshots of the slides with room for students to take notes 
• can be used to stimulate discussion or administer quiz questions
• slide shows can be made available for review on the Web

Presentation Tips

• Some Presentation Tips from the University of Wisconsin.
• Presenters University contains information about creating and delivering presentations, with a section about Designing Effective Visual Aids.
• Computer Slide Design from the UWCM Media Center.

Information about Planning and Delivering Lectures

PowerPoint is a tool that can assist you in presenting information to your class. Here are some other sites that give tips about preparing and delivering lectures:

• Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence.
• This site has information about preparing and delivering lectures. It also includes tips about Having an Interesting Presentation Style.

• Computing and Communications Center Room 124 Garden Ave.
• Open Monday-Friday 9:00AM - 5:00PM during the academic year
• Closed on university holidays

Maintenance Schedule

Any regular system maintenance and server restarts for any of our services will be scheduled weekdays between 5:00 am and 7:00 am. All users should be aware that a system may become unavailable during this maintenance time.

• (607) 255-9760
  atc_support@cornell.edu

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