Comments on: PowerPoint More Than Presentations https://www.elearningworld.org/powerpoint-more-than-presentations/ For the online learning world Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://www.elearningworld.org/powerpoint-more-than-presentations/#comment-73 Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:36:12 +0000 http://www.elearningworld.org/?p=1616#comment-73 In reply to Stuart.

Thanks for letting me know that!

]]> By: Gareth Barnard https://www.elearningworld.org/powerpoint-more-than-presentations/#comment-72 Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:05:55 +0000 http://www.elearningworld.org/?p=1616#comment-72 I had used PowerPoint for years until moving to LibreOffice when I no longer had a valid licence for it (no longer a Teacher or Student) and it’s good. Does most of what PowerPoint does but no ribbon because I believe Microsoft has a patent on that. I did try a 30 day demo version a few years back and thought it was easier to use, but don’t do enough presentations to justify the cost.

And being a developer I thought at one interview that I should show off my skills, so instead created a Bootstrap 2.3.2 carousel that operated like a slide show.

For teachers, single / few slide PowerPoints can be a good way of showing the objectives, tasks and outcomes and as a lesson flow tool. I used them almost every lesson and referred my lesson plan to the slides. That way both I and the students were always on the same ‘page’ rather than the lesson plan differing from what is projected. Students could also log in to Moodle and download the slides with the ‘notes’ option to the right where they could add their own notes.

]]> By: Stuart https://www.elearningworld.org/powerpoint-more-than-presentations/#comment-66 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:45:42 +0000 http://www.elearningworld.org/?p=1616#comment-66 I use LibreOffice exclusively now, and have done for many years. The same principles apply to LibreOffice Presenter as to PowerPoint. Technology is often neutral, but it is very easy to make a boring PowerPoint presentation for sure !

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