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AP Chemistry Powerpoints

This page contains links to web versions of the PowerPoint presentations that I will be using in class. Though I place them here to give my students 24/7 access, they may also be used by any teacher or student who can benefit from this resource. A lot of these need a "face lift". They were created with dark backgrounds during the early years of classroom computer projectors, and dark backgrounds were advantageous with the low-lumen projectors of that time. I will post updated versions as I find time to work on them.

I am no longer going to place the Powerpoint-as-webpage files here. The pages exported by Powerpoint are so proprietary in their code that they do not run on browsers other then Internet Explorer. Instead, I am providing them as Flash embedded in web pages, a format that seems to have excellent cross-browser compatability. For people who would like to download a presentation for offline use, I am offering the self-contained (.ppsx format) as well.

A NOTE ABOUT THE SELF-CONTAINED POWERPOINT FILES: You need to have Powerpoint installed on your computer to take advantage of the self-contained Powerpoint slideshow files. Windows users, your computer will probably try to save the file as a .zip file. You must change the file extension to .ppsx in order for it to open correctly. If you are not using Office 2007, you will have to download a compatability pack from Microsoft to use this file type. Macintosh users, you must download a conversion utility for Powerpoint 2004 on your Macintosh that allows you to view this file type. It is available for free from Microsoft. Your version of Powerpoint will prompt you to download the file when you try to open a .ppsx file.

The .ppsx files are editable in Powerpoint 2007 if you open them through Powerpoint rather then clicking on the file itself..