This section is for people new to PowerPoint or who want
a quick refresher
Those with more advanced skills and a need to think about the art and
science of Presentations go here
Mastering PowerPoint
Please right mouse click and download this file to your computer.
Then open it with MS PowerPoint It
is a sampler of PowerPoint elements and techniques that we will quickly
cover
- setting up a slide show
- picking the slide view
- adding slides
- backgrounds
- text
- word art
- graphics (photos and clip art)
- animations
- transitions
- builds
- sounds
Grand Mastery of PowerPoint
The University of Tasmania has done some excellent work on Using PowerPoint
for the Construction of Multimedia and CD-Rom resources
Here is Dr.
Simon James explaining it
here is the University
of Tasmania hosted collection
This site has a number of links and files attached, it may be worth while
downloading them to your portable drive or USB stick.
PowerPoint in
the Classroom from the internet site actden
(Digital Education Network) is a useful resource. It is geared for young
students. You can print out tutorials free of charge.
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PowerPoint has been getting a mixed response in
educational circles over the last few years. It can still be a powerful
tool for teachers and students but only if used thoughtfully . |
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Microsoft
itself this link has a tutorial for PowerPoint for Office 2000
still useful. Other Microsoft resources include lists of
tutorial and lesson plans as well as page on instructional
materials .
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On the Microsoft site is a link to this page from
the University
of Minnesota , this has a good range of resources to follow
up (especially a section on using PowerPoint for games and an excellent
quote to start with
"At a minimum, a presentation format should
do no harm to content. Yet again and again we have seen that the
PP cognitive style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes
content. Thus PP presentations too often resemble the school play:
very loud, very slow, and very simple.
The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide
manager and projector for low-resolution materials. And that's about
it. PP has some occasionally useful low-end design tools and way
too many Phluff-tools. No matter how beautiful your PP ready-made
template is, it would be better if there were less of it. "
(Edward R. Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, 22)
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From Jamie McKenzie at From
Now On (fno.org) comes the great term Powerpointlessness
. Of course the site is about not being powerpointless.
Jamie's site has a wealth of information and is invaluable for using
technology in a real and meaningful way across the curriculum.
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Atomic
Learning have small video tutorials on using PowerPoint.
They have a some for free, the rest need to be purchased , but the
free tutorials are valuable anyway |
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