Welcome to Death by PowerPoint!

 Seminars on language and intercultural teaching

 University of Tartu, Estonia

Seminar Activities

1. PowerPoint Pluses and Pitfalls

2. Tips and Pointers

• Death by PowerPoint by Aleksei Kapterev
• PowerPoint: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Pamela Bagley and David Izzo
• Writing with PowerPoint from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue
• Advice on Giving a Good PowerPoint Presentation by Joseph A. Gallian
• Preventing Death by PowerPoint by Matthew A. Christian

   

3. Technology

• Keynote from Apple
• PowerPoint from Microsoft
• Impress from OpenOffice (free download)
• Google Docs Slideshow (free after signing up for Google account)

4. Project work

• Group 1: Pecha-Kucha
• Group 2: Nigel Holmes
• Group 3: PowerPoint is Evil
• Group 4: Gettysburg Address
• Group 5: Presentation Zen
• Group 6: Seth Godin
• Group 7: Space Shuttle Crash

5. Review and Commentary