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GOVT 2305/2306 - Presentation on Recent Event (James Stepp): Presentation Resources

guide on how to research current event, find videos, and determine bias of source (left/right leaning)

Using Sources in Your Presentation

Using Sources in Your Presentation

Once you've found sources that fit the criteria of your assignment, your instructor expects you to:

  1. Draw conclusions based on all of the sources you have read.
  2. Discuss what you have  discovered in your paper or presentation.

What you learn from your sources should be in your paper or presentation. Remember to credit your sources in APA Style.

Microsoft PowerPoint

PowerPoint (Office 365), one piece of the Microsoft Office Suite, is perhaps the best known tool for creating presentations. While everyone has seen dry presentations consisting primarily of text on slides, PowerPoint can do much more than this, including offering embedded content such as images, videos, audio files and even dynamic content from the internet.

PowerPoint (Office 365) training courses, videos and tutorials

From beginner to advance, watch videos to learn the basics of creating a PowerPoint presentation and also advanced applications.

Google Slides

Google Slides is to PowerPoint what Google Docs is to Word. It allows users with a free Google Drive account to create quick and easy presentations. While it doesn't have quite as many features as PowerPoint or others, it makes collaboration simple and works well for basic presentations. Google has a great tutorial to walk you through its features or you can watch the video below.

Other Multimedia Presentation Tools

Canva  - Canva is a online software that can be used to create presentations or other documents. It is very easy to collaborate with others on a project, or just create your own using free templates. Has free images available or upload your own and edit with Canva's photo editor tool. Free and paid accounts available.

Powtoon  - Make videos in minutes with Powtoon. Use the large library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own!

Prezi -  Welcome to Prezi, the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.

Slides Carnival Free PowerPoint templates, Google Slides themes and Canva templates for your presentations.

Emaze  -  Emaze is the next generation of online content creation. Choose from hundreds of templates to create customized presentations, websites, blogs and more.

Nearpod Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on.

Public Domain & Creative Commons Licensed Images

The Google Image search engine offers filters for you to find reusable images with Creative Commons licenses.

Wikimedia Commons

Internet Archive

Find books, media, music, software and more.

Flickr: Creative Commons

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Ad*Access

Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

Getty Open Content

All images of public domain artworks in the Getty’s collections. Roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.

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