PowerPoint Tips

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PowerPoint Tips

• Thanks to Jackie Tanner
• Colby ITS

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Uses of PowerPoint

• Visual aid for lectures
• Stand alone-kiosk type tutorial
• Key points
• Organizes presentation

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Effective uses

• Ice breaker
• Who won the election?
• What are the major expectations of the Maine
  Laptop Initiative?

• Summary
• Outline
• Notes to review

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Expect the unexpected

• Back up plan

• Hazards of technology
• Incompatibility
• Malfunctions
• Damaged discs

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Who benefits?

• Visual learners
• Clarification for learners
• Teacher - accurate overheads

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What about animation?

• Occasional use recommended
• May be helpful with younger students
• Model what you expect students to do in their
  presentations

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More on animation

• Animation can be annoying

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Adding video

• Here is the class clay movie demonstration

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Photographs

• Youve seen this one

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Photographs

• resizing

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Your turn
How can you use PowerPoint? What should your
students know how to do? Practice-If you have a
project in mind, it is easy to do.