PowerPoint
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PowerPoint Best Practices Workshops and Workshop Handouts Web Resources |
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Purpose
A component of Microsoft Office, PowerPoint is a presentation graphics program. Faculty can create presentations and simple educational games. With PowerPoint faculty can add simple shapes, graphics, multimedia and animation to create a dynamic presentation. Once the presentation is created it can be used for delivered on-screen, as overhead transparencies, as 35mm slides and as paper printouts/ handouts/notes/outlines. The current version of Microsoft Office is Office 2007.
Strengths
- Presentations can be easily organized and updated
- Students concentrate and understand the main points as shown in your presentation instead of trying to write down every word said during a lecture
- Connects both the visual with the audio for better understanding of the material
- Presentation can be viewed multiple times
Cost
Although Microsoft Office is placed on all campus computers, PowerPoint can be purchased separately or with Microsoft Office Professional. Microsoft Office Professional 2007 retails for $424.99 while PowerPoint retails for $197.99. Prices may vary.
PowerPoint Best Practices
Active Learning with PowerPoint
Active Learning Strategies with PowerPoint
Workshops and Workshop Handouts (Workshop Schedule)
*Email the IDDS department to schedule your one-to-one or departmental workshop session.
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PowerPoint Presentations:
From Start to Finish with Impatica demo Learn More About
Impatica and view an Demo Video  PowerPoint: From Start
to Finish Workshop Handout PowerPoint: From Start
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Customizing PowerPoint Presentations In this workshop faculty can learn about customizing the Slide Master, working with templates, capturing images, sound and movies, adding/formatting/animating diagrams and linking and branching PowerPoint files. Workshop Handouts
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Adding Audio to your PowerPoint Presentations The addition of sound greatly enhancing the learning experience by providing students with the extra information they need about a topic if they are unable to attend class or if they are taking an online course. This hands-on training will help faculty learn to add narration, rerecord and delete narration using the Windows Sound Recorder or the PowerPoint Sound Recorder. You will also learn to add pre-recorded sound from CD-ROM's or from an audio library. Finally, faculty will learn how to run the presentation without sound and animate the sound using the Custom Animation dialog box. Example Audio Comparison Files
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Adding Video to your PowerPoint Presentations Another great feature to add to a PowerPoint presentation is video. Video can be used to introduce or clarify concepts. In this workshop, faculty will learn to create a short video clip introducing themselves using a digital camera and if needed resize it in PowerPoint. This clip can be added to a PowerPoint presentation or uploaded into Blackboard. Faculty will also learn how to add real media streaming files to their presentation. |
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Create a Poster for a Poster Session
presentation Many faculty members are asked to or volunteer to participate in Poster sessions at conferences. This workshop is designed to help faculty create their poster in PowerPoint. Workshop Handouts Poster Session Workshop
Handout Poster Session Manual
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Create a Jeopardy Game in PowerPoint Game playing is one way to prepare students for exams or check their content knowledge. This workshop provides an overview of game creation in PowerPoint, instruction on how to create your own Jeopardy game. Samples and instruction on how to modify sample games are provided for use as templates for your own material. Other games you may want to use include: Jeopardy Workshop Handout Jeopardy Session Manual |
Web Resources
