Research article

This article is specifically about the balance and relationship between auditory and visual information - but the introduction is a good summary of lots of research around presentation - Partial Verbal Redundancyin Multimedia Presentations for Writing Strategy Instruction
Rod D. Roscoe, Matthew E. Jacovina, Danielle Harry, Devin G. Russell and Danielle S. McNamara
Article first published online: 24 JUL 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/acp.3149 

Presentation Software that Inspires | Haiku Deck

Presentation Software that Inspires | Haiku Deck: "Meet Haiku Deck, a completely new kind of presentation software. We make telling your story simple, beautiful, and fun."



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DigiThings Useful resources from Plymoth

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Piktochart

Templates | Piktochart:



Create simple infographics using this tool - worth a look



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Jisc Digital Media | enhancing-presentations-for-the-multimedia-generation-home

Jisc Digital Media | enhancing-presentations-for-the-multimedia-generation-home: "Enhancing Presentations for the Multimedia generation

This infokit will provide guidance on best approaches in using presentation software such as PowerPoint, Prezi and Slideshare, looking at their advantages and disadvantages, using multimedia to enhance the content as well as sharing with students and learners. It will also explore the possibilities of using new tools that have now emerged to further enhance presentations."



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Google charts site

An improved google site show what you can do with graphs on google.  Very useful.

https://developers.google.com/chart/


And for balance - tutorials on excel charts - http://blogs.office.com/2012/05/30/our-eight-best-tutorials-on-excel-charts/

Heat maps in excell

Power Map for Excel–February update for Office 365 http://blogs.office.com/2015/02/10/power-map-excel-february-update-office-365-2/