Welcome to PowerPoint

Day 1 Agenda:

Rapid Fire Review

Baby Steps into PowerPoint (See the YouTube Videos)

• Navigating the Ribbons
• Inserting Content
  • Insert Directly vs. Outline Mode
• Setting a Theme or Background
• Setting Up transitions

Toddler Steps Into PowerPoint (See the YouTube Video)

• Acquiring & Inserting Images
  • The quick way: Copy and Paste
  • The secure way: Save image as
• Acquiring & Inserting Sounds
• Acquiring & Inserting Video

Creating a Project Folder

Advanced Features:

Click here and you will see a PowerPoint Show highlighting some of the things you can do. with PowerPoint.

Building a Better Background:

• Customizing your own backgrounds
• Using Pictures as backgrounds
• The Master Slide
• Saving a Theme
  

Lunch

Creating Hyperlinks:

• Hyperlinking to the web the easy way
• Hyperlinking to the web with text
• Hyperlinkig to the web with Shapes
• Hyperlinking to other parts of the slide
  • Action Buttons
• Hyperlinking to Other Files
  

Creating a Storyboard for a Non-linear PowerPoint

Day 2

Sharing your StoryBoard

Advanced Audio: I have a dream

• Using iTunes or Windows Media Player to Copy CD's
• Using iTunes to Convert Audio
• Music over Multiple Slides

Lunch

Advanced Video:

if you are going to use video you will have to convert it. 

Tools for conversion:

• YouTube Download Helper w/ Format Factory
• www.kickyoutube.com w/ Format Factory
• Zamzar.com

Setting Up your Show:

Packing Up your Show:

Work Time and Hints and Tips

• Click Here to Take the Interest Survey for hints and tips about PowerPoint

Performance Assessment: All about me

• Visit the site: http://www.vote7.com/n7w/world
• Create a simple 9 slide slide show detailing each of the 7 wonders. Please include a Title slide and Bibliography slide.
• You will have 1 hour to create the slide show using the skills you have learned in class.  We will then share our work with the rest of the participants.

Conclusion, Your Assignment, and Credit Request Forms.

 

• Your Assignment for this course is to complete the PowerPoint you storyboarded for class and submit it along with a 3 paragraph explanation of how you used or will use it in class, how multimedia influences learning and what technical skills you learned in class.