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 Need help motivating students and boosting interest in your lessons? This course will help you create captivating and attention-grabbing classroom presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. You'll learn basic PowerPoint skills such as creating slides, using templates, inserting text, changing background colors, creating WordArt titles, and adding slide transitions. You'll also develop advanced skills such as inserting graphics, sound, and video, custom animations, timed transitions, and hyperlinks.
You'll be able to publish your presentation on a school Web site or even take your PowerPoint shows on the road. You'll also be able to create presentations filled with scanned drawings created by your students or digital photograph slide shows. This class will assist you in learning these skills.
Your instructor will walk you step-by-step through several different types of classroom presentations. You'll be able to create lectures, interactive presentations that viewers can use independently, and impressive presentations complete with narration for your students' independent use on computer stations or enrichment activities.
Each lesson also includes a wealth of ideas and suggestions you can apply in the classroom--as well as ideas you can use to help your students develop their PowerPoint and presentation skills.
Using PowerPoint in the classroom addresses different learning styles, heightens student interest, and engages learners. PowerPoint is a fun and motivational tool for teachers as well as students. This class will give you the knowledge you need to add appeal to any classroom subject!
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Tracy Loffer.
 Tracy Loffer holds a Master’s degree in Education in Curriculum and Instruction. She has been involved in education for twenty years, as a music educator and technology trainer of students and teachers. She has also worked in the private sector as a trainer of domestic and international technology franchisees as well as a writer and developmental editor of educational technology materials using Office, Publisher, and FrontPage.
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Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP or 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or Microsoft Office 2003 (Student and Teacher Edition, Standard Edition, Small Business Edition, or Professional Edition are all acceptable - please be sure to install this software on your computer before the course begins), Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser. This course is not suitable for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or Macintosh users.
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
Do you have students with different learning styles? In our first lesson, we'll explore the ways that PowerPoint can assist you with these important differences. We'll view two different types of PowerPoint presentations that you can use in a classroom setting. We'll also look at PowerPoint's helpful wizards and colorful templates.
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
In this lesson, we'll take a tour of the most commonly used toolbars in PowerPoint: Standard, Formatting, and Drawing. You'll have an opportunity to experiment with the variety of buttons and learn about their many functions. We'll also work with some basic slides and investigate different slide views. This will give you a great foundation for beginning your own presentations.
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
Today, you'll learn about adding and manipulating text in PowerPoint. You'll insert text boxes, experiment with different colors, fonts, and styles, and add bullets to important information. And we'll also explore WordArt, which will help you learn how to add colors, patterns, and fill effects to WordArt titles.
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
Have you heard about JPEGs, GIFs, and BMPs, and wondered what these letters mean? Well, wonder no more! In this lesson, you'll learn the origins and purposes of different graphic formats. You'll also discover the Drawing toolbar and its many unique and exciting functions. Then we'll explore sources of clipart, and learn how to insert images from scanners and digital cameras.
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
Do you enjoy drawing shapes and experimenting with fill colors? Today, we'll continue our exploration of the Drawing toolbar. We'll examine Auto Shapes, line and arrow styles, and shadows and 3-D effects. You'll have fun rotating, flipping, and distributing objects on your slides.
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
Curious about sound files? Today, you'll discover a wealth of sound resources on the Internet. Do you like to listen to yourself talk? You'll also learn how to record and add your own sounds and narration to a PowerPoint presentation.
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
Would you like to know how a video could be inserted and played in a PowerPoint presentation? In this lesson, we'll explore different video formats and sources of videos and motion clips. You'll learn how to set up a video to either play with a click or to automatically play in a slide show.
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
Have you noticed the numerous transitions that you hear or see all the time on radio and television? In today's lesson, you'll learn how to make your slide show more interesting and exciting by using the many visual and auditory transitions available in PowerPoint.
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
You can animate objects in a PowerPoint presentation with a wide variety of motion and sounds. Today, you'll discover how to add multimedia effects to text and graphics that are sure to enliven any show!
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
Need a self-paced presentation for a computer station? In today's lesson, you'll create an interactive slide show that will allow your students to explore information at their own pace. You'll also learn how to design a home slide with hyperlinks to as many individual slides as you need.
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
Did you know that you can add notes to a PowerPoint presentation to assist you as you give a talk that goes with it? You can also make handouts to go with a slide show. Today, you'll find out how these great features work.
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
A PowerPoint presentation doesn't have to stay on your home computer. In our final lesson, you'll see how PowerPoint's Pack and Go feature allows you to take your slide show wherever you want! You'll also learn how to e-mail a presentation, and how to save a slide show as a Web page.
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Student Reviews:
"Great course! I have learned so many different ways to add interesting lessons by using PowerPoint in my classes. Thanks for this great online class!"
"Great course! I'm already starting to have fun with using powerpoint in my Geometry classes! Good fun! And the students seem to really enjoy it also!"
"I appreciate the time and effort that the instructor (Tracy) put into the lessons. It definitely has helped me better understand and use PowerPoint. I thought I had a good grasp of PowerPoint before taking this course, but I realized there was much more for me to learn. Thanks!"
"I enjoyed this class. I now feel better equipped to teach my students the basics of PowerPoint. I look forward to teaching them and using PowerPoint presentations in the upcoming school year."
"I had a working knowledge of PowerPoint. After this course I realized I was doing several things the hard way. I cut the time to produce a presentation almost in half and learned new and exciting ways to enhance my teaching."
"I really enjoyed this class. The on-line format is great. It allowed me to work whenever I wanted to and at my own pace. I learned a great deal and can not wait to create interactive power point presentations for my students to use. I would definitely recommend this class to anyone!"
"The PowerPoint online class provided so much more information than I could have imagined. I have used PowerPoint to make several presentations since I started the course. I look forward to using Power Point a lot more often in my classes. Thank you."
"This class was great! I learned a lot that I can implement in my class immediately. I also learned about more than just Power Point; I learned about all of the functions of the computer screen. Thanks for such a productive use of my time."
"This course on PowerPoint increased my knowledge about the program in an easy and painless manner. The lessons were well thought-out and the instructor was very responsive to any questions."
"This was an excellent course and had much more depth than I expected. By downloading the lessons, I now have a resource that gives me the cofidence to do anything I'd like to do with Power Point. I will recommend this course to others."
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