This is a free asynchronous course, intended for working adults who create presentations for their jobs. No special knowledge or prior training is required to attend the course.

This computer-based project was developed for my ESL Computer Lab. Students who attend this lab learn the basics of using a computer and complete mini-projects in English to build English Proficiency. This Job Research lesson may be used as a introductory lesson to preface a deeper career exploration. Additional lessons may include writing a cover letter, identifying personal jobs skills, goal-setting, writing a resume, and practicing for a job interview. However, this lesson is limited to using websites to obtain information about a job of interest to the student. At the end of the lesson, students present their slide show to the class.

Many young adults and college students begin transitioning into adulthood with distinct deficiencies in their kitchen skills. Kitchen skills are a daily life component useful in safely preparing nutritionally adequate meals. They can also serve the additional purpose of entertainment as a way to grow a love of cooking. These knowledge gaps affect their culinary performances and their abilities to thrive independently in the adult environment. To help fill these gaps, Chosen Ten Instructional Design has created an interactive digital learning course for incoming college students to learn about cooking and managing a personal kitchen. This interactive learning object intends to provide instruction on critical areas of kitchen safety that are relevant to these learners now and will increase their confidence in the kitchen as they progress through life. Consisting of an interactive PowerPoint with infographics, other interactive elements, and videos, this digital learning object has been uploaded to OER Commons, where it can be accessed by both the target learning group and anyone who feels that their culinary knowledge and skills require refreshing.

Learn how to use PowerPoint in this comprehensive series. This video looks at how to navigate around the PowerPoint interface.

Modified Lecture Slides and Video Guide for the OpenStax Principles of Management Textbook - Changes focus on accessibility improvements.

While essays and research papers are likely the most common types of writing assignments you’ll receive in college, more and more, students are being expected to write in digital environments. In the 21st century, you’re likely to be asked to create a PowerPoint or Prezi to present the main points of your research paper, or you may be asked to create an electronic portfolio to share all of your work for a semester. Students in online classes will write discussion board posts every week, and some professors are even replacing some of your traditional essay assignments with assignments like photo essays or video essays.

These lecture slides contain images as well as some conceptual explanations and lecture outlines.

Enhanced lecture slides for Ch. 1-17 of the OpenStax Chemistry textbook. Ch. 1-6 are in their final version. Ch. 7-17 are still a rough copy, but the final versions will be uploaded as they are completed.

This activity is designed for students with a basic understanding of PowerPoint to apply some unique features. It takes students in a stepwise process on how to accomplish different features such as editing and applying effects to images, replacing icons and other aspects. 

In this video I show how to use the advanced screen sharing features to share a portion of your screen. This is handy when sharing PowerPoint in presenter mode when you only have one monitor. This series is aimed at helping folks figure out easy methods of adapting materials from face-to-face classes to online modalities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This is a short PowerPoint presentation template that I have created for my students to revise and make functional. After spending a day working with the Pythagorean Theorem, I want my students to work in groups to revise this presentation so that it could be used to introduce the Pythagorean Theorem in a classroom setting.

A Small Gas Engines interactive notebook to help prepare students for the Briggs & Stratton Master Service Technician Exam 1. By Troy White

The Cambrian College Teaching & Learning Innovation Hub has created a series of syllabus templates designed as infographics.

These templates have been created in PowerPoint to assist educators in developing and customizing a more visual introduction to their course. These illustrative templates are simple so that your students can have an easy-to-digest and engaging overview of your course. The syllabus is often the first piece of information that students will receive in their course. They often refer to this to help them become oriented with the course activities and assessments; it’s an important element to their success.

Visit our website to download the templates individually by hovering over the previews and clicking the “Download Template” button to receive the single PowerPoint file. To receive all of the templates as a ZIP file package, click the “Download All Templates” button.

For help in customizing the templates in PowerPoint, we have also included a short how-to video.

These templates by Cambrian College are licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.

 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.Senior Contributing AuthorsP. Scott Corbett, Ventura CollegeVolker Janssen, California State University, FullertonJohn M. Lund, Keene State CollegeTodd Pfannestiel, Clarion UniversityPaul Vickery, Oral Roberts UniversitySylvie Waskiewicz

The AmericasEurope on the Brink of ChangeWest Africa and the Role of Slavery

I provide a major update to materials I had previously posted on OER Commons, providing lecture slides, recorded video, and lecture notes. All files are available through Google Drive and YouTube. The new materials are organized into six modules: 1) The History of Astronomy and Sky Motions, 2) The Moon, Earth, and Solar System, 3) The Astronomer’s Toolkit, 4) Properties of the Sun and Stars, 5) The Lives and Deaths of Stars, and 6) The Milky Way Galaxy and Beyond.