PowerPoint Features to Use in the Classroom

Tutorials, Ideas and/or Class Examples

Ideas for Using PowerPoint in a Classroom-Some templates of ways to use PowerPoint in your classroom.

PowerPoint Lesson Ideas-Some ideas for a variety of content areas.

PowerPoint -- Creating Classroom Presentations-An Education World article about incorporating PowerPoint in your classroom. This article include links that could be helpful for you.

PowerPoint in the Classroom-An online tutorial that might help you and/or your students.

PowerPoint Templates-Links to a variety of classroom ideas.

PowerPoint in the Classroom-Short tutorials on various PowerPoint tasks and lesson ideas.

Microsoft Office Lesson Plans-The Microsoft Office Education site has lesson plan ideas that you can modify for your classroom.

Microsoft Classroom Network-The Microsoft Office Education site has ideas for integrating PowerPoint into your curriculum.

Electronic Book Templates-One teacher's site on creating electronic books with PowerPoint.

PowerPoint Activities-Many examples of powerpoint games but there are a few other examples also.

Copyright Issues

What is Fair Use?-A website that uses Flash to explain some of the issues with Fair Use and education.

Presentation Rubrics

Rubric For Multimedia Presentation-A rubric that you can use when assessing presentations.

Scoring PowerPoints-An article by Jamie MacKenzie that talks about PowerPointlessness.

Presentation Rubric-A rubric that you can use when assessing presentations.

PowerPoint Rubric-A rubric that you can use when assessing presentations.

Using PowerPoint as Popular Game Shows

Who Wants to Be a Winner!-PowerPoint templates of many popular TV shows.

Greenleaf's Who Wants to be A Millionaire PowerPoint-Link to my handout page. Scroll down to the PowerPoint links.

Multimedia Links

Pic 4 Learning-copyright free pictures you can use in your presentations.

Sound Files-Search this site for sounds to incorporate in your slide show.

Lycos Multimedia Search-Search Lycos for a variety of multimedia files for use in your presentations.

Introduction to Sound for PowerPoint Presentations-If you have an interest in learning more about sound in presentations you might want to check out this site.

Millionaire Sound Clips-Sounds for the TV show.

Microsoft Design Gallery-download clipart and media from Microsoft.

Google's Image Search-Search for images. You need to check the copyright status of images you plan to use.

Other Classroom Examples