Student Friendly Presentation Resources

Drawing Tools

Photography

Flickr Advanced Search for Creative Commons licenses)
Flickr Commons (from Library of Congress and others)
Google Images Advanced Search, labeled for reuse
Creative Commons Image Search
Wikipedia (All images used on Wikipedia are in the public domain)
iStockPhoto (Low cost stock images and video)

Animation

Gapminder World (downloadable)

Screen capture

Jing (screencasts)
Camtasia (screencasts)
12 Screencasting Tools
Aviary Talon (screen capture browser plugin)
Taking Screen Shots on the Mac
How to Take Screen Shots on Windows

Presentations (ideas, humor, inspiration)

Books, Blogs, and Articles

A Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, Richard Mayer Mayer’s 5 principles of multimedia presentations
Visualization and Instructional Design, by John Swelller (pdf)
Crash Course in Learning Theory, Kathy Sierra
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, Dan Roam
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
Beautiful Evidence Edward Tufte (chapter on PowerPoint)
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, Nancy Duarte
Duarte Design Blog: Duarte Design is based in Mountain View and was hired to work with several of the presenters who spoke at TED in 2009
Brain Rules, John Medina
Brain Rules Website
Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds' Blog
Brain Rules for Presenters, Garr Reynolds
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness A good book to read and think about what nudges you are designing into your class presentations and materials and what effects they could be having.
Really Bad PowerPoint, Seth Godin
Beyond Bullet Points, Cliff Atkinson
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, John Medina
Flowing Data, Nathan Yau (Data Visualization Blog)
C.R.A.P. Examples

Online Tutorials

Lynda.com Tutorials for Powerpoint, Keynote…

Seminars & Training