Slides for Students: Best Presentation Practices for Educators

• Using images and animation to make a visual analogy — August 21, 2026
• Why are PowerPoint images called slides? An explanation — August 15, 2026
• Take time to make memorable connections — August 5, 2026
• PowerPoint files are not notes — March 16, 2026
• Link shortening to speed presenter transitions — December 12, 2025
• Animations to step through multiple stages of a complex figure — October 20, 2023
• Explaining the difference between duplicate vs extended screen settings — October 21, 2021
• Transparency in higher-ed PowerPoint presentations — March 5, 2021
• Using annotation tools to increase interest during online presentations — March 2, 2021
• Do students learn more from text or images? — February 2, 2021
• A copying problem caused by making PowerPoint slides available online — September 25, 2020
• White text plus colored background equals invisible — April 7, 2020
• A quick guide to adding multimedia to PowerPoint presentations — March 20, 2020
• How to rapidly transform standard PowerPoint slides to an online teaching format — March 16, 2020
• Progressive reveal animations for complex technical figures — February 25, 2020
• The return of the PowerPoint critics — January 30, 2020
• A rebuttal to 'It's 2020. Why are you still using PowerPoint?' and similar critics — January 24, 2020
• PowerPoint for general interest presentations: Images, not words — January 21, 2020
• Background images that cause sensory failures — January 10, 2020