A quick tutorial to encourage you to make your own clipart using the drawing tools available in PPT and other Office products.

1. ? Break Out of the Clipart Box! How to Draw a Stick Figure Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS Lamar Soutter Library University of Massachusetts Medical School 2011 MAHSLIN Annual Meeting

2. So a few months back, I did a webinar on the use of content management systems and Web 2.0 for MAHSLIN. Remember?

3. After it was over, our colleague and friend, Michelle Eberle, asked me, “Where do you get the clipart for your presentations? I always love it.” And I answered, “I draw it.” Really? Yep, True Story

4. I drew this. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

5. ? ? ? ? ? This, too. ? ?

6. And this one.

7. Here’s another. Different talk.

8. Oh, and I was pretty proud of these. You might have seen them in my starring role on the MLA Webcast. heh, heh 

9. The point is, I drew every one of these using PowerPoint. Yes. PowerPoint. If you look at them closely, you’ll see there’s not much to any of them besides circles and triangles and rectangles and a line here and there. It’s EASY!

10. NOTHING MORE THAN… THESE THINGS THIS STICK DUDE…

11. PUT TOGETHER LIKE THIS: JUST CONNECT THE PIECES AND VOILA!

12. Need a whole army of ‘em? Cut and paste, cut and paste, cut and paste…

13. Need some formal attire? Triangles anyone? + = IT REALLY IS THAT EASY

14. When it comes to PPT (Word, too, for that matter), the drawing pallet, the shapes, the fill and line colors… these are ALL your friends. I hope you’ll learn to use them. Be yourself and express your thoughts and ideas the way YOU would do so, not some canned clipart. HAVE FUN! 

15. DOODLE ON!