Oral Presentation Skills

This PowerPoint is used to support a workshop for University staff and students who are preparing a conference presentation. It highlights the major issues that they will need to consider when planning, practising and delivering their talk.

Academic integrity at the University of Southampton

This is a two part audio podcast designed to provide advice and guidance for students at the University of Southampton. Transcripts for each part of the podcast are also provided.

PowerPoint - basic skills training

This step-by-step guided worksheet and accompanying PowerPoint file introduce some key skills: - reorganising slides and bullets - creating speaker notes - printing slide handouts - including hyperlinks - adding images Simple stuff, but many find it useful - it uses Office 2004 (XP)

Additional Exam Responsibilities video

This video is for students with specific learning differences that mean that they are entitled to use a computer to type written examinations rather than writing them longhand. It show them how to use the special AER workstations that provide a cut-down version of Microsoft Word and absolutely no access to the Internet.

Adding Camtasia video files to Blackboard

This short video shows how to add a video produced using Camtasia Studio to a Blackboard course

Creating Questions Using Turning Point

This 7-minute video describes the range of question types and shows you how to create and test them.

Using Turning Point to create zapper questions that assess confidence levels in the answers given

This 5-minute video describes how you can assess how confident your students were with their answer choices so you can adapt your teaching appropriately.

An Introduction to Adobe Connect

This 7-minute video shows you how to create a web-conferenced meeting using Adobe Connect, welcome the participants, communicate using sound and video, and share resources.

Educational Podcasts

This 6-minute video provides a brief introduction to the educational use of podcasts, how to create them and the technology used.

New Brand PowerPoint template for teaching - how to use it

This short video show you how to download the template and use it with PowerPoint to create new presentations and apply it to existing presentations.

New Brand PowerPoint template - good practice advice

This short video introduces the new teaching templates and provides advice about good slide design

Using the Turning Point Showbar during zapper quizzes

This 7-minute video describes how Turning Point's Showbar can be used to manage questions during a presentation and includes useful techniques such as peer instruction and data slicing.

Using Turning Point to Analyse Data from a Zapper Session

This short video shows how you can save the date at the end of a Turning Point quiz, then view that data as an Excel spreadsheet.

Using the Turning Point Participant Monitor During Zapper Quizzes

This 4-minute video describes how to use the Turning Point Participant Monitor to review the performance of the whole group and individual students during a lecture.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue flat.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a solid blue background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.