Chapter 3 references: Give compelling talks
(Scroll down for sources for visuals, etc.)
Chapter references
- 3-D Molecular Designs
- Audacity sound recorder and editor
- Bigelow, James and Poremba, Amy, “Achilles’ Ear? Inferior Human Short-Term and Recognition Memory in the Auditory Modality,” PLOS One, February 26, 2014.
- Biologic Models
- BioRender
- Bitly
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Communicating Science: Giving Talks.
- Camtasia
- CrystalGraphics
- Echo360
- Erickson, Ryan, “Teaching Science is Easier with These 3D Printable Scientific Model Files,” Stratasys blog, December 8, 2016.
- Google URL Shortener
- Google Slides
- Hewlett Packard, “The Power of Visual Communication,” 2004.
- Inspiration organizing software
- Interscience Publishers, “Could Power Point Presentations Be Stifling Learning?” June 12, 2009. Keynote
- KiwiMill
- Kraut, Carolyn, “Creating Narrated Presentations with SlideShare”
- LiveSlides
- Lopez, Ken, “6 Studies that Support Litigation Graphics in Courtroom Presentations,” August 12, 2012.
- Mahar, Stephen, et al, “The Darker Side of Custom Animation,” International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 22, 2009
- Mediasite
- Microsoft, Record a Slide Show With Narration And Slide Timings
- Mitchell, Olivia, “PowerPoint Custom Animation Experiment—Check Out the Animation For Yourself, Speaking about Presenting, 2009.
- Murphy Paul, Annie, “Your Brain on Fiction,” The New York Times, March 17, 2012.
- Naftulin, D.H., Ware, J.E., and Donnelly, F.A., "The Doctor Fox Lecture: A Paradigm of Educational Seduction," Journal of Medical Education, July 1973
- NASA 3D Printable Models
- NIH 3D Print Exchange
- PowerPoint video training
- Prezi
- ScienceSlides
- SlideServe
- SlideShare, Creator’s Hub for resources and tutorials
- Snagit
- Thingverse
- TinyURL
- Warnakula, Sampath Sri, “Top 25 SlideShare Alternatives To Create & Share Online Presentations,” SlideHelper.com, April 9, 2018.
- Weiss-McGrath Study, McGraw-Hill, 1989.
- Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Annenberg School, USC, Talking Science: The Elusive Art of the Science Talk
- Yeggi
General references and resources
- Abrahams, Matt, "Tips and Techniques for More Confident and Compelling Presentations," Insights by Stanford Business, March 2, 2015
- Adler, Ronald B. and Rodman, George, Understanding Human Communication, Oxford University Press, 2009
- Alley, Michael, The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003
- Alley, Michael, The Craft of Scientific Writing, Prentice-Hall, 1987
- Best Public Speaking Apps for improving preparation, body language, nerves, and delivery
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Communicating Science: Giving Talks
- Cohen, Michael, et al, "Auditory recognition memory is inferior to visual recognition memory," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 7, 2009
- Cole, Diane, "A Message from Your Brain: I'm Not Good at Remembering What I Hear," National Geographic, March 12, 2014 (Original paper: Bigelow, James and Premba, Amy, "Achilles’ Ear? Inferior Human Short-Term and Recognition Memory in the Auditory Modality," PLoS ONE, February 26, 2014 (news release)
- Dahl, Melissa, "Why You Can't Stop Talking with Your Hands," Today Show
- Haden, Jeff, "5 Ways to Become a Better Speaker Overnight, (impact of pauses on audience)
- Hoff, Ron, Say It In Six, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1996
- Kushner, Malcolm, Presentations for Dummies, For Dummies, 2004
- Meredith, Dennis, "Play 'Bad Presentation Bingo': Losers are Winners!," Research Explainer, February 26, 2010
- Mitchell, Olivia, How to Present with Twitter (and other backchannels)
- Orai AI-powered app for practicing presentations and getting feedback on areas needing improvement
- Paddock, Catharine, "Brain's visual system also processes sound," Medical News Today, May 27, 2014 (Also, see "Sound and vision: visual cortex processes sound information, too," University of Glasgow news release, May 27, 2014)
- Phillips, Brad, Verbal White Space: The Importance of Pausing
- Phil Presents, The Power of the Pause
- Six Minutes: A Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blog
- Toastmasters, Toastmaster's International Guide to Successful Speaking: Overcoming Your Fears, Winning over Your Audience, Building Your Business & Career
- Ummo speech coaching app
- Vanhemert, Kyle, "7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual," Wired, January 21, 2014
- Vetter, Petra; Smith, Fraser W.; and Muckli, Lars, "Decoding Sound and Imagery Content in Early Visual Cortex," Current Biology, May 27, 2014
- Weinschenk, Susan, "Your Hand Gestures are Speaking For You," Psychology Today, September 26, 2012
- Winston, Patrick, "How to Speak" videos
Free sources for images, illustrations, animations, and videos
(See also Best Images)
- Find a Photo master search site for free and royalty-free stock photos, Chamber of Commerce.org
- Amoeba Sisters videos, GIFs
- Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA
- Bugwood Network insect and forestry images
- CalPhotos
- CDC Image Library
- CDC Publish Health Image Library
- Cell Image Library
- Department of Energy gallery
- DNA animations by wehi.tv
- From DNA to protein 3D video
- Free Nature Stock
- Giphy animated GIFs
- Gratisography
- EurekAlert! multimedia gallery
- Free images general stock shots
- Free Science Animated Clipart
- Google Advanced Image Search
- HHS Image Galleries
- Hubble Space Telescope images
- Images in Your Blog Posts: Best Practices includes many image sources
- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell science explainer animations
- Life of Pix photos and video
- National Digital Library, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Giphy: Find and Share Animated GIFs
- How Stuff Works Web site illustrations, animations, and videos on science and technology
- Materials Research Society Science as Art image winners
- Microsoft Images clip art, photos, and images
- MorgueFile general stock shots
- Molecular Workbench
- NASA art gallery
- NASA images
- NASA video gallery
- National Institutes of Health Image Gallery
- NIH National Cancer Institute visuals online
- NIH National Institute for General Medical Sciences image gallery
- National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library
- National Science Foundation multimedia gallery
- NOAA Photo Library
- PhET interactive simulations for science and math
- Pixabay free and royalty-free images and video
- Public Domain Archive photos
- The Public Domain Project free historic footage
- Rgbstock general stock shots
- Twenty Animated GIFs That Explain How Things Work
- Unsplash general high-quality stock shots
- U.S. government master search page for images
- U.S. government YouTube channel for science & technology
- USDA Agricultural Research Service image gallery
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital Library
- Vecteezy freevector art, stock photos & videos
- WEHI.TV 3D biomedical animations, gifs and images
- Wellcome Images, more than 40,000 images from clinical and biomedical sciences
- Wikimedia Commons free images and video
- YouTube
Commercial sources for images, illustrations, animation and video
- Adobe Stock
- a Luna Blue stock video
- Animation Factory animated clip art, templates, backgrounds and videos. Science/Medical PowerPoint backgrounds
- Bigstock
- depositphotos
- Earth: Portrait of a Planet
- eduMedia
- Envato Elements subscription service for photos, video, presentation templates, website templates
- Getty Images
- iStockphoto photos, graphics, video, audio
- Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery
- NVTech
- Offset distinctive general stock shots
- Pond5 photos, illustrations, video
- Photos to Go Unlimited
- Pubic Domain Footage archival footage
- ScienceSlides
- Science Source science and medicine stock photos, illustration and video
- Shutterstock photos, video
- Wiley Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry
PowerPoint and other presentation software and resources
- Aoki, Shiz, Top tips for better presentation figures! BioRender tutorial
- Add Color and Design to Your Slides with Themes, Microsoft
- Alley, Michael, "Improve your PowerPoint," February 12, 2010
- Atkinson, Cliff, Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire, Microsoft Press
- Bit.ly URL shortener
- Canva presentation design software
- Combining Colors in PowerPoint—Mistakes to Avoid, Microsoft
- Crystal Graphics PowerPoint plugins for templates, animations, 3D
- eMaze online presentation designer
- GoogleDocs Presentations
- Haiku Deck for iPad and web presentations
- How to Insert 3D models into PowerPoint
- How to Embed Fully Interactive 3D Documents into PowerPoint See also ICM User's Guide
- Microsoft PowerPoint video training
- PDF3D for inserting interactive PDFs in PowerPoint
- Interactive PowerPoint
- LiveSlides embeds live web content into slides
- Matthews, Dawn, Best Free Video Editing Software (with production tips), Avasam
- Microsoft Photos
- Molecular Modeling Basics: Rotating molecules in Powerpoint
- Molecular Modeling Basics: Rotating molecules in Powerpoint - part 2
- 123PPT.com PowerPoint templates and animated backgrounds
- OpenOffice.org Impress
- Polyview-3D for creating molecular models for presentations and web
- Powered Templates PowerPoint templates and video backgrounds
- PowerPoint 2013:Modifying Themes
- The PowerPoint FAQ
- PowerPoint Heaven
- PresentationPro
- Presenter converts Powerpoint slides to eLearning content
- Prezi presentation software
- Screencast-O-Matic for recording action on a screen
- Slidebean for designing slide presentations
- Screenflow (Mac) for recording computer screen interaction, video, etc.
- SlideRocket
- Snagit for capturing and manipulating screen images
- Snagit: Getting Started with Snagit webinar
- The SlideQuest slides, presentation templates and infographics
- Three Ways to Choose the Right Colors for Your Business Presentations, Presentation Process
- TinyURL URL shortener
- Ummo speech coaching app
- Use Accessible Color and Styles in Slides, Microsoft
- Venngage for making infographics. Both free and paid versions
- Visme for producing visual slides and infographics. See also this tutorial
- Whiteboard Explainer PowerPoint Template creates animated whiteboard videos in PowerPoint
- Digital Inspiration, "The Most Essential Tools for Presenters"
- Tufte, Edward, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition
- Wikipedia, "Presentation Programs"
- Best free alternatives for Windows Movie Maker
- Zamzar for converting file formats
Apple iWork Keynote and other Mac resources
Audience response software for polling and Q&As
Sources for cartoons and humorous image creation
Software and Web sites for sharing presentations and other content
- Agarwal, Amit, Share your Presentation Slides with a QR Code
- Articulate Presenter
- authorStream
- Creating a slidecast using Slideshare (Explains recording audio using Blackboard, but you can also use a link to an existing .mp3 file on the Web)
- Echo360
- 40 Interesting ways to use QR Codes in the Classroom
- Gallo, Carmine, "Present like Steve Jobs," YouTube, April 17, 2008
- Impatica
- Meredith, Dennis, "Publishing Online Flip Books: Useful Tool or Gimmick?" Research Explainer, June 25, 2010
- Meredith, Dennis, "Slidecast: Using Multimedia to Advance Your Research," Research Explainer, February 21, 2010
- Meredith, Dennis, "Use QR Codes to 'Amplify' Your Work," Research Explainer, April 3, 2012
- QR Code in Powerpoint Presentations
- QR Code generator, basic (Google)
- QR Code generator (Delivr) Free version enables personalizatio, tracking of QR code use. Paid version adds more sophisticated services
- QR Code generator, basic (Digital Inspiration)
- QR Code generator, basic (KayWa)
- QR Code generator for producing more sophisticated codes, including those that trigger an action
- QR code generator (ZXing)
- QR Codes: How to Generate with bit.ly
- QRStuff.com tools for QR codes
- Screencast.com, free basic presentation-hosting service with inexpensive upgrade to more subtantial storage, bandwidth
- Slidecasting screencasts using Slideshare
- SlideShare free hosting service for sharing PowerPoint presentations.
- SlideServe, free hosting service for sharing PowerPoint presentations
- Soundslides, software for producing audio Web slidecasts
- Sonic Foundry's Mediasite
- TagmyDoc for sharing documents via a QR Code on the document or a Powerpoint slide
- Ventation enables creation of synchronized video and slide presentations
- Warnakula, Sampath Sri, “Top 25 SlideShare Alternatives To Create & Share Online Presentations,” SlideHelper.com, April 9, 2018.
Science demonstrations
- Beaty, William, Physics demos & Science Exhibit Designs
- The experiMENTALS
- Frostbite Theater: Jefferson Laboratory Physics Video Demonstrations
- Ophardt, Charles E., ed., Science Demonstrations, Elmhurst College
- Shakhashiri, Bassam, Chemical Demonstrations, Volume 1, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
- Shakhashiri, Bassam, Chemical Demonstrations, Volume 2, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
- Shakhashiri, Bassam, Chemical Demonstrations, Volume 3, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989
- Shakhashiri, Bassam, Chemical Demonstrations, Volume 4, University of Wisconsin Press, 1992
- Shmaefski, Brian, Favorite Demonstrations for College Science: An NSTA Press Journals Collection
- Ten Easy Science Demonstrations That Will Amaze Kids
- The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations
Science and engineering jokes
