Top Ten Slide Tips

"Your slides should have plenty of "white space" or "negative space." Do not feel compelled to fill empty areas on your slide with your logo or other unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not contribute to better understanding. The less clutter you have on your slide, the more powerful your visual message will become."

http://garrreynolds.com/Presentation/slides.html

Prezi - Presentation editor

"At Prezi, we're all about helping people understand each other better. Presentations have not evolved much in the 50 years since the slide was invented, but Prezi is changing that. Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books. "

http://prezi.com/

zen.do - free tool to take notes and turn them into flashcards

"Zen.do allows students to take notes as normal, while it automatically builds a study guide of related flashcards. Students can then review the flash cards as a study tool. There is a built in algorithm to optimize the review time of the students as they use the flash cards. "

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/zendo-free-tool-to-take-notes-and-turn.html


http://zen.do/

Communicating Successfully with Very Few Slides

"The wise professor in his story (I prefer to describe myself as an Indiana Jones-style entrepreneur in my narratives), explains the important characteristics of conference room style presentations as the following:

“they have extensive—but always relevant—detail; they are printed, not projected; and every slide must pass the squint test.””"

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/communicating-successfully/

The Extreme Presentation Method

"The Extreme Presentation method is a step-by-step approach for designing presentations of complex or controversial information in ways that drive people to action.  It is based on extensive empirical research and has been pilot tested among leading corporations, including Microsoft, Exxon-Mobil, Kimberly-Clark, eBay, and Motorola."

http://www.extremepresentation.com/

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Screenr - Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way

Web-based screen recorder

http://screenr.com/


http://blog.screenr.com/

SplashURL

"[C]reate[s] a short version of the given URL and display it big, so people can easily copy it from a projector to their laptop during demos."

http://splashurl.net/

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

"... the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It's quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points."

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html

Wink - Screencast, Presentation & Tutorial

"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users."

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Empressr

"The First Online Application That Lets You Create, Manage and Share Rich Media Presentations Online"

http://www.empressr.com/

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

"It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points."

"You should give your ten slides in twenty minutes. Sure, you have an hour time slot, but you’re using a Windows laptop, so it will take forty minutes to make it work with the projector. Even if setup goes perfectly, people will arrive late and have to leave early. In a perfect world, you give your pitch in twenty minutes, and you have forty minutes left for discussion."

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html