First, here is the talk for class, done with several different themes for comparison.

• default Theme
• Berkeley Theme
• Boadilla Theme
• Copenhagen Theme
• Goettingen Theme
• Hannover Theme
• Madrid Theme
• Montpellier Theme
• Warsaw Theme

The tex files to make each of these beamer pdf files are in this directory. Be sure to grab the image in the file pix, and create a directory called pix in your beamer directory, so the Beamer LaTeX will compile for you. Alternately, delete the picture from the LaTeX file.

Here is a presentation using beamer for a recent 1-hour talk I gave. It includes illustrations, and uses a sty file.
View the files here, or download the complete directory in zip format.

Here is a list of presentations using beamer by classmates:

• Landon Kavlie
• Sean McAfee

Here are some basic guides, to give an idea of the possibilities, and how to implement them.

• 5-Minute Tour of Beamer’s Simplest Features
  Just what it says. Plus, here is the TeX file BeamerTour.tex which created the tour.
• Beamer Themes
  This gives a nice overview of some of the popular beamer styles in use.
• Beamer Features
  This beamer show by Michael lacey gives some of the Highlights.
• Official Beamer User Guide
  The officlal doc in all 224 pages of glory.
• latex-beamer-3.07
  The directory conatining all beamer files for this version.

There are lots of articles on the web about beamer.

• Wikipedia on Beamer (LaTeX)
  Always a good place to start - on wikipedia.
• The LaTeX Beamer Class Homepage
  This has some basic guidelines for beamer.
• SourceForge on The LaTeX beamer Class
  This is the open source site for discovering how beamer is put together.
• Google "beamer"
  This returns about 1,320,000 links to beamer! Just the first page will get you started.