Do you have copies of the whiteboards from AngryBeth? We recommend those for people new to presenting in SL. We regularly have sessions for new faculty to help them go get their own copies. These are available at AngryBeth's CyberGrrl store, on the porch outside in front, selling for $5L.

You can practice on the Wolverine library roof copies, whichare unlocked. Instructions are in the whiteboards.

Basic idea is this:
- Make a powerpoint (PPT) or equivalent. Use lots of pictures, a few graphs or charts, few words.
- Save the file to HTML.
- Convert the GIF images to targa (TGA).
- Name the image files so they'll be easily findable in SL inventory, and you can distinguish from other presentation image files.
- Number them in sequence for how they should be viewed.
- In the SL browser, under FILE, choose Upload Image or Batch Image Upload.NOTE: uploading images costs money - $10L each.
- Find the images in your inventory. They should be in your Textures folder.
- At the whiteboard projector, you are now ready to add the images. Hold down the CTRL key while you drag them onto the whiteboard projector. You should see a message in Local Chat saying that the images have been added.
- Test the display to make sure it is what you wanted.
- If it looks good, and you are using your own whiteboard, you can then EDIT the name of the whiteboard to something like My BLANKPresentation and TAKE a copy of the whiteboard.
- When you are ready to present, you can drag the whiteboard out of yourinventory, and voila! all set up, ready to go.

- Remember to secure the whiteboard when you present by clicking the LOCK button. Otherwise people trying to get the image textures to load may click on the whiteboard and force the slides forward when you aren't ready for it to happen.

Write out a script beforehand. You can give people copies, you cancut and paste into chat - it saves you time typing, especially ifthere is lag. Plan to not change slides very often - the slides don't havetime to rez and many people may have trouble seeing them if you go fast.

One thing that you can do is make a box with the script and thetextures for the slides, set it out by the screen, and set it to givepeople a folder of contents. This allows people to preload the slidetextures so they can see what I'm talking about as I get there.

There are lots of other tools to help with this, but for a first time,these are the basics for success. :)