Help With PowerPoint

[Ray Crooks]

I'm looking for some help with learning how to use Microsoft's
PowerPoint program. If anyone has some helpful literature they'd like to
share or can refer me to a good "How To Use" manual or web site I'd be
greatly appreciative. Also, If anyone has some creative ideas for its
use in the classroom I'd also like to hear from you. Thanks!

Ray Crooks

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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Ray Crooks wrote:

>
>
> I'm looking for some help with learning how to use Microsoft's
> PowerPoint program. If anyone has some helpful literature they'd like to
> share or can refer me to a good "How To Use" manual or web site I'd be
> greatly appreciative. Also, If anyone has some creative ideas for its
> use in the classroom I'd also like to hear from you. Thanks!
>
>
> Ray Crooks

Microsoft has the how to on line lessons at
http://www.microsoft.com/education/k12/learn.htm
In no way doe sthis sugggest I endorse this or any other microsoft
product.
I'll just deny it if anyone suggests it.;)

happy new year

Ted 8-)

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[CMD]

Hi Ray........Try this website for many MS Tutorials besides PowerPoint.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/k12/learn.htm

Cindy from R.I.

[mdyt...@erie1.wnyric.org]

Hi Ray -

PowerPoint is so user friendly you can easily teach yourself by simply
trying it and playing with it a bit. The on-screen help will help you sort
through the rough areas, etc. If your version did not come with a manual
you can probably order a manual from Amazon books.
The ways to use it in a classroom are many! Do you want the students to
use it or would you like to use it for lessons?
In its most basic and simple form you might use it to plan those types of
lessons or notes that you generally would hand write on the blackboard.
Instead of doing that, you could create the lessons/notes on PowerPoint at
home and then run the powerpoint as a simple slide show during class time.
A more involved use of PowerPoint might be a unit lesson plan involving
interaction with the students through hot links to the internet. I used it
in my second grade classroom to create an "opener" a unit on Bats. The
self-running slide presentation was a favorite with the students. It
involved text and photographs of bats, particularly, fruit bats, maps
showing their homes in geographical locations, etc. After we read,
Stellaluna togetjer, the students used the slide presentation to follow-up
on some of the information that they had learned from the book.
PowerPoint can be used as a way to put ideas in a multimedia presentation
that can be viewed at any time. It can therefore be used on a computer as
a "center" in your classroom.
Anyway you choose to use it for lesson extension, etc. will benefit your
students!

"Ray Crooks" <croo...@hotmail.com> on 12/28/98 03:36:52 AM

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Subject: Help With PowerPoint

I'm looking for some help with learning how to use Microsoft's
PowerPoint program. If anyone has some helpful literature they'd like to
share or can refer me to a good "How To Use" manual or web site I'd be
greatly appreciative. Also, If anyone has some creative ideas for its
use in the classroom I'd also like to hear from you. Thanks!

Ray Crooks

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[Bonni L. Katona]

Ray,

My books are at school, and I'm not there this week, but I can steer you in
the right direction. I really like DDC's books. You could use their book
on MS Office 97, or see if there's one specific to PowerPoint available.
Also, Que publishes some great books. There's a really nice series of thin,
spiral-bound books devoted to components of Office (including PowerPoint)
that are available. They have black covers. Maybe it's called PowerPoint
Essentials?

I use PowerPoint in my classroom for open house presentations at our career
center. I took digital camera pictures of each of my students and then
created a page on each one. The info includes their home schools, career
goals, offices held, and where they are currently working at their co-op
jobs. In addition, I include a section on curriculum and class activities,
too. Then I put it on an endless loop. Next grading period they will be
learning PowerPoint and will use digital camera pictures to create a
presentation about their co-op jobs. Someone showed me a Jeopardy game
created with PowerPoint.

Bonni

[Rich Levine]

Ray,
You asked for ideas on the use of PowerPoint in the classroom.
PowerPoint is basically an outline with glitz. I've seen it best used in
analysis (compare and contrast), such as:
"Reasons for or against the 13 colonies breaking away from England."
"Pros and cons of scientists using animals in experiments."
"Should Clinton resign."
and so forth.
It can also be used to present knowledge or a report of findings.
With very low level students, or very young students, they could make up
a virtual tour of their school for new students who come in during the
year, or as an introduction to next year's parents.
Warning: Students can be so turned on by and spend most of their time
with the bells and whistles that they do not do a good job on the
intellectual substance of their product.
Rich

[DUP...@aol.com]

I have recently finished a big learning experience with Power Point. I used
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office 97 Professional as my guide.It
is very simple and easy to follow. I also found that any Power Point
presentation looks better if it has a background and a border. There should
be a smooth transfer from one slide to the next (a connection of sorts). There
are many pictures that you can pick up from the Internet, just make sure that
you have permission from the site. Good luck.
Betty

[mdyt...@erie1.wnyric.org]

>>I also found that any Power Point
>>presentation looks better if it has a background and a border. There
should
>>be a smooth transfer from one slide to the next (a connection of
sorts).

Good advice, Betty!
Additionally, and on the same theme, I have found that the SAME background
and SAME transitions with an occassional inserted different background or
transition keep continuity and are less distracting from the message you
are trying to deliver through PowerPoint.
You need a certain amount of negative space when designing your slides -
too much is too much! Too many transitions and whimsical animations are
very distracting. Ditto for sounds. Less is better and becomes more
meaningful.

[sn_m...@omeresa.ohio.gov]

You have to work for balance on transitions etc. too. I take my major
point and use the transition that spins in the basic term (I'm not on my
own machine and forget what it's called)

The word "Change" rotating up there for 10 seconds or so will do a lot to
drive home that (or whatever) concept with students or any other audience.
think about how to sell your idea and use your transitions or animations
to accomplish that end.

Secondly, the most important thing you can do with any presentation --
PPt or overhead or whatever -- is turn it off!! If you have a longer
point to explain, do't leave the light up there as a distraction. Turn it
off and every head in the room will turn to you (it looks like a tennis
match!!!) Turn it back on and every head in the room will turn back
toward the screen. When you do it and you see it happen, you will laugh,
thinking about this note.

Smiles,

Mart

Martin D. McKay Ph.D.
Tech Faculty
Ohio SchoolNet

[P.A. Gantt]

For simple example of a powerpoint file
running on my site go here, check out how
I did the hardcode using view source:

http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/etech/course/supplies/notebook/

--
P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor
Electronic Media Design and Support Homepage
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[Kathie Stewart]

I am running a G3 at home with a color HP printer ( newer one..but can't
remember the number and am not at home to check). Lately, if I want to print
from a page in Netscape Communicator 4.05 and press on the print button the
printer prints the page so small that it is totally unreadable. Does anyone
know why this is happening? I can highlight the print and use NetPrint to
print it..but that does not give me diagrams I might want so is not always
preferable. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Suzanne B. Conrad]

I, too, have been experiencing this -- for the first time last night. I
was attempting to print one of my own web pages. I was logged in through a
local service to my school account. I was using Netscape Communicator as a
browser. I was using a local network service for the connection. My system
at home is using 3.11. The curious thing was that I had printed two pages
with no problem and then one miniature version of the same page issued
forth from my Epson 800. I logged off and tried to start from the
beginning. My printer produced three more shrunk versions. I logged off
and called the service provider who did not recognize the problem. I then
logged on again and when I printed the same page as before, it came out
normal. Could this be a Netscape glitch? a connection glitch? Anybody out
there know?

TIA
(Things are curiouser and curiouser!)
Suzanne
sco...@nps.bia.edu