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Educational blogger Scott Elias is tired of your PowerPoint presentations. Yeah, you heard me. He’s sick of slides overloaded with information in small print, and he’s sick of presenters who read directly from their slides and then expect students write down what they see. You’re lucky that Elias isn’t the complaining type, though – he’s offering you some solutions.

In his presentation “Taking Your Slide Deck to the Next Level,” Elias offers some tips for effectively engaging an audience of students with visually appealing, pared-down PowerPoint presentations. He designed it for a small group of faculty, but thankfully, he’s sharing with all of us. You can get the presentation as a PDF file (which includes his notes), as a standalone series of slides through SlideShare, or as a Keynote file, if you happen to have that software handy. Elias tackles simple topics like color, shading, storytelling, passion, and putting yourself in the audience’s place to give you some easy-to-implement tips for engaging your audience, reminding us that “the slides aren’t the presentation – you are.” -ROSS WHITE

Taking Your Slide Deck to the Next Level (.pdf)