These slides relate to a practical workshop delivered on 31st Oct as part of the Greenwich Opportunities in Learning and Development (GOLD) CPD programme. It is is aimed at any staff who wish to develop their use of presentational software in structuring and presenting information, such as in lectures or other presentations. Increasingly presentations using tools such as PowerPoint and Prezi are being used collaboratively and shared across user networks. The purpose of this workshop is to help you to develop skills in using PowerPoint and Prezi and extend their use to enhance both your teaching and students’ learning. The session is intended to enable you to: 1.Structure a simple presentation in PowerPoint and Prezi 2. Compare and select appropriate presentational tools 3. Collaborate together on a presentation 4. Link their presentation into Moodle using cloud-based solutions

1. Enhancing Presentations using
Powerpoint and Prezi
Educational Development workshop 31st Oct 212

2. Session Outline
This practical workshop is aimed at any staff who wish to develop their use of
presentational software in structuring and presenting information, such as in
lectures or other presentations. Increasingly presentations using tools such as
PowerPoint and Prezi are being used collaboratively and shared across user
networks. The purpose of this workshop is to help you to develop skills in
using PowerPoint and Prezi and extend their use to enhance both your
teaching and students’ learning.
This session is intended to enable you to:
• Structure a simple presentation in PowerPoint and Prezi
• Compare and select appropriate presentational tools
• Collaborate together on a presentation
• Link their presentation into Moodle using cloud-based solutions

4. Features
• Retreiving images from the web and reusing (with CC
license)
• Multimedia enhancements, text, image and
sound, animation, linking (internal navigation, external
links)
• ‘Save as’ options
• Embedding into VLE
• Using repositories
• Collaborating
• Using ‘research tools’ in Google presentations
• Mobile apps and devices…

5. Creating your presentation
• Powerpoint
• Prezi
• Google

6. Storing your presentation in a
repository (public = OER)
• Slideshare
• Prezi
• Google
• Moodle

7. Collaborating with others in the cloud
to create presentations
• Slideshare (Powerpoint needs special infrastructure)
• Prezi
• Google

8. Getting started
• Log into the computer network using:
• Staffyour account i.e ws07