Almost every teacher likes to use PowerPoint to enhance their lessons.

Trouble is, if you upload a PowerPoint to a website or VLE then the students need to have PowerPoint, or a PowerPoint viewer installed on their home PC to watch it - and it won't necessarily work with online games consoles.

The sites and tools listed on this page allow you to quickly and easily convert your PowerPoints into formats that everyone with a web browser can use, regardless of the type of hardware they try to view it on.

Click on a link to learn more:

• Basic PowerPoint Training - An excellent video tutorial created by teachertrainingvideos.com 
  
  
• Author Stream - This is a free add on that lets you quickly and easily insert YouTube videos into any powerpoint.
  
  
• YouTube Video Add In - Similar to Authorstream this lets you insert YouTube videos into Powerpoint slides, this one is useful to use if you already know the URL of the video you want to use.  
  
  If you want to search for a video withough leaving Powerpoint, then use AuthorStream.
  
  
• LiveWeb - Another free Powerpoint add-in, this one lets you insert a live webpage into a powerpoint slide.
  
  
• Piclens - Turn your PowerPoints into an interactive 3D wall.
  
  
• Live Web - Insert web pages into a PowerPoint slide and refresh the pages real-time during slide show. Display web pages without ever leaving the confines of your PowerPoint slide show.
  
  
• Google Docs Presentation -  Create new presentations without MS Office online or convert existing PowerPoints so that anyone can view them on the web on any web enabled hardware.
  
  
  
• Slide Share - This site lets you upload your powerpoints for public or private use.  You can also add your own audio to create a webinar.
  
  The site is also an excellent source of ready made presentations that you and your students can use.
  
  Click here to learn more.
  
  
• Prezi - This is a great site that lets you create interactive 'zooming' presentations, you need to see one for yourself to appreciate it. 
  
  You can't upload existing powerpoints for conversion but you can save each slide as an image, or copy the text, and then import it into a prezi presentation if you so wish.
  
  Click here to view an example Prezi presentation.
  
  
• Zentation - This is a nifty website that lets you synchronise powerpoint slides with youtube videos to create free on demand webinars.  Using this site you can video a lesson or lecture and then combine it with the powerpoint that was used during the session so that students can experience the lesson again any time they like.
  
  
• Authorstream - Convert your PowerPoint into YouTube videos & files that will play on Ipods & Iphones.
  
  
• Momindum - This free software lets you combine your powerpoints with video files and web pages to create an on demand streaming presentation - click here to view a demo of what this can do.