PowerPoint – Page 8 – Mike Taylor

Multimedia Learning Design Principles

I created this handout for a recent workshop from Richard Mayer’s Principles for Multimedia Learning. [ Click the Linkedin icon down at the bottom right to download a copy. ]

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Sharing Some PowerPoint & Elearning Slide Designs

As I recently cleaned out some old files, I came across these PowerPoint slide designs that I never used. Since its International Work Out Loud Week I thought I’d share these for anyone who might be able to use them for a presentation or online course. Download PowerPoint Slides

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Friday 5: PowerPoint Social Sharing, Curated Design Resources, Trello Integrations, Skype For All, New Image Format

PowerPoint Social Share Plug-in If you do any presenting at conferences, etc you probably already know about the #backchannel. Now you can easily share all or part of your PowerPoint presentation directly to Twitter & Facebook with the new Social Share plug-in. The Microsoft Garage project lab has released Social Share, a free plug-in forContinueContinue reading “Friday 5: PowerPoint Social Sharing, Curated Design Resources, Trello Integrations, Skype For All, New Image Format”

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Friday 5 – Team knowledge sharing, Interactive presentation polling, Excel Fill magic

Thanks for stopping by. Here are the things I’m noodling on this week. I share a whole lot more things like this on Twitter and save the better ones over in Diigo. Guru Guru is a browser extension that facilitates knowledge sharing among teams. I’m giving it a try to see how well it works. IfContinueContinue reading “Friday 5 – Team knowledge sharing, Interactive presentation polling, Excel Fill magic”

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PowerPoint: Mac vs Windows

In my now, not so new role at Mindset Digital we have both Mac and Windows people. Both doing a LOT of work in PowerPoint. In general, it seems that the odd of needing to share slide decks between Mac and Windows computers are much higher today than ever before. If you’ve ever compared PowerPointContinueContinue reading “PowerPoint: Mac vs Windows”

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Free Skitch Inspired Icon Set

I’m a big fan of Evernote’s screenshot tool, Skitch. If you take many screenshots you should definitely check it out – for a free app it is hard to beat. One of the things I like about it, are the great looking, built in icons. For a recent project, I wanted to use a similar styleContinueContinue reading “Free Skitch Inspired Icon Set”

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No Photoshop Required

Ethos3 recently posted a ‘How to’ on how they made their cut out images in Photoshop for their fabulous “Simplify, Simplify, Simplify” deck. I saw a question asking if this could be done using ONLY PowerPoint and the answer is yes and it’s super simple. Here is one way it can be done: 1. RemoveContinueContinue reading “No Photoshop Required”

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Audience Feedback with Poll Everywhere

At the Learning Solutions session I presented with Patti Shank last week I wanted to try some way to include live, real-time audience feedback. After looking at a few different options I decided on Poll Everywhere and it worked out really well. (At least I think it did. If you were there and have aContinueContinue reading “Audience Feedback with Poll Everywhere”

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Insert images instead of copy & paste

I’m guessing that a pretty big percentage of images used in PowerPoint come from the web. And I’m also guessing that most people may realize that most images on the web have been compressed in some way to provide a balance of quality & small file size. What I don’t think many people realize isContinueContinue reading “Insert images instead of copy & paste”