More on slide decks

When creating a slide deck for - say - a conference presentation, we put ALL the references that we cite in our notes, on each slide; which ...

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Slideshow options for android

I have been looking for a photo slideshow to run on my phone for a while so that I can show people selected images of overseas holidays, in ...

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Aligning PowerPoint voice over and animations

This time we have a bit more on solving problems with creating a voice over PowerPoint. We look at how we can align the entry of animations ...

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Saving voice over files from PowerPoint

Ever created a PowerPoint with a voice over, and wanted to edit the sound files? And not known how to extract the PowerPoint recordings from...

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More on effective slide decks

Following on from the last post ( here ) on putting slide decks together, I thought I would put a few tips together for writing academic pre...

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Effective PowerPoint slides

It is interesting how wrong we can get something as seemingly simple as creating a PowerPoint slide deck. A slide deck is - in my opinion - ...

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Kill the company exercise

There is a very interesting tip related by Wharton professor, Adam Grant (2016), for constructing better investment pitches. Instead of doin...

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Convert a ppt file to mp4

What is interesting is that we can create a PowerPoint, get all our timings right in our presentation, put a voice over on it, then export i...

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Switching screens in Presenter view

Recently I was fortunate enough to be gifted an upgraded screen for my PC. However, when I came to viewing a PowerPoint slidedeck presentati...

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Creating a persuasive presentation

We all know what a presentation is, but what is persuasion ? It has been defined as "the art of convincing people to do what you want t...

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5 oral presentation tips

We all need to deliver presentations at some point in our lives: whether that is talking about a friend at a party, speaking at a family ce...

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PowerPoint and the Business School lecturer

Coming, as I do, from a business school background, I was quite struck by an article I read on the Times Higher Education online earlier thi...

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Presenting Research

(Swift, 1992, p. 53) A while ago, Mehadi Altiye asked a question on Quora (18 January 2016), asking how to present a review paper using ...

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The Art of Conversation... or "Presenting"

Each year I have students make presentations to their peers. Each year some students do remarkably well, and others struggle. Yet they all...

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Draw Attention to your Presentation

If you need to highlight specific text or image in a presentation, there is a nifty PowerPoint function that allows you to draw a circle a...

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