PowerPoint Presentation

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Power Point Presentation

• Michael Hoffman
• Computers in the Curriculum

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What is PowerPoint?

• PowerPoint is a visual notes tool created by
  Microsoft
• Every page is a slide and can be customized with
  animations, different fonts and colors
• Its a cool learning tool just ask the Fonz

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Welcome to the 21st Century

• Any teacher actually writing more than a few
  notes on a blackboard is back in the stone age
• PowerPoint allows for interactive easy to read
  notes done on a computer

http//www.cheney268.com/training/PowerPoint/Power
PointTips.htm Check out this Link for tips on
Visual Presentations
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Children are Big Thinkers

• Making Children in a classroom setting think
  about the notes they are taking can make for a
  better student
• Most students can be bored by staring at a
  blackboard and PowerPoint allows for slides to
  draw a student into what they are writing and
  allow for more positive thinking

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• Students grow up with Xbox, Playstation 3 and
  online everything. Using PowerPoint allows for
  notes to be uploaded very easily to a class
  website so that the students can always have the
  notes and it can be easily stored for use down
  the line.
• Students will check the Classroom website for
  their PowerPoint notes as easily as they play
  their online games and check their Facebook

http//www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/heal
thday/635134.html This link shows kids time on
the computer has gone drastically up in the last
6 years.
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Creation of Charts

• PowerPoint allows for the creation of Pie charts
  or other images to breakdown a presentation or
  ideas for the classroom

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PowerPoint is Evil?

• Check out the link below and tell me on my blog
  what you think
• http//www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
  
• The article is PowerPoint is Evil. I disagree and
  I think in a school or business Environment
  PowerPoint is a very useful tool to get your
  point across

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PowerPoint Cartoons

• Below are a couple of PowerPoint Cartoons for
  your amusement. This can be a fun assignment
  using PowerPoint. Students and teachers can have
  fun

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Tutorial

• Please click on the link Below for a website that
  has a full tutorial of how to use and customize
  PowerPoint http//www.electricteacher.com/tutoria
  l3.htm

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Credits

• Created by Michael Hoffman