Resources
For PowerPoint Workshop
Beginning
and Intermediate Levels
Resources
For PowerPoint Workshop
Beginning
and Intermediate Levels
HANDOUTS and TUTORIALS
The following handout and tutorials will help you to practice and master various skills and tools, both during and after the workshop. Please review those that are appropriate to the session you are taking.
Intermediate PowerPoint (Multimedia) Handout (MS PPT Help Files)
PowerPoint in the Classroom Eight separate tutorials from start to finish. Cute and thorough!
PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial Recommends you have PPT open while using this tutorial.
PowerPoint Tutorials Has many brief and focused tutorials on common PowerPoint tasks.
PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial Shows some of the basic tasks in creating a presentation.
PowerPoint 2000 Basics Tutorial Learn as you go through the Table of Contents.
LOCATING CONTENT: Images, Audio, and Video
Multimedia
Search Engines: Image, Audio & Video Searching
This
is a site with a descriptive list of search engines that you can use to
locate media files that might be used with your PowerPoint. Just
type in the name of an image you want, and click the "Search" button.
Here
is a sample Google Image Search showing the results for a search on the
term "school". Or,
go diretly to:
SOME SPECIALIZED SITES for Various Types of Multimedia Files
FindSounds
A
search Engine that includes some preset searches, as well as the ability
to specify file types.
Motion
Pictures at American Memory: 15 Collections
This Library of Congress website provides
15 different collections that allow downloading of movie files.
Sound
Recordings at American Memory: 23 collections
This Library of Congress website provides
23 different collections that allow downloading of audio files.
Animal
Movies, Animal Sound Clips
This site has a large number of links
to both sounds, images and videos of animals. You will have a lot to choose
from at this site. Here is another site, NatureSongs.
Top
100 Speeches: American Rhetoric
A collection of the speeches that are
momentous with respect to U.S. History.
BobDlyan.com
Most of the recordings of Bob Dylan are
availalable here, though mostly in short samples of streaming
audio.
picsearch
Specializes in searching for pictures
only.
Singingfish
Helps you locate audio or video files
from the web. Some files require payment.
Additional
Audio Sources
A collection of interesting audio sites.
Some are already listed above.