A practical session focussing on some free tools and techniques to make your lecture slides more engaging.

1. Engaging Learners
visually during lectures
Tools, tips and tricks
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2. MAKING YOUR
SLIDES LOOK GREAT!

3. aims
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COMMUNICATE

8. inspire

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10. My name is
Comic Sans
and people don’t take me seriously…

11. Don’t use clip art…

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Avoid using
cheesy/staged images

13. Always use copyright free images

14. How
Should
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Present
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18. COLOUR &
CONTRAST

19. Find and create colour themes
Customise and save your own by signing up for free
Online community of other user designs and feedback
Import pictures to find what colours work with it
https://color.adobe.com

20. PowerPoint 2013
Alignment tools
Screen Capture tool
Recolour images

21. Search for Creative Commons images
Easy to use design
Export as PDF or PPT
Store in cloud
Slideshare and Linkedin connection

22. Access millions of creative commons images
Embed online & Brightspace
Add to your PPT presentation
XPERT adds the attribution & licence to a PPT
Haiku Deck integration

23. https://prezi.com
Free to set up an account
Zooming User Interface (ZUI) = allows users to zoom in and out of their
presentation
Share your Prezi presentations with other signed up users
Stores projects online and accessible anywhere in the world

24. and people don’t take me seriously
Free to create an account
Templates available for free
Create infographics – customised charts & maps
Searches for Copyright free photos
Import survey results from Survey Monkey
Download creations as image files (JPEG, PNG) – import into Powerpoint
https://magic.piktochart.com

25. Quickly style key quotes or passages
Useful for seeing design tips

26. Links to
Resources