PowerPoint: Teaching with PowerPoint
This workshop is designed to help faculty assess their goals for using PowerPoint and develop presentations to meet those goals. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to create a PowerPoint file (including text, graphics, transitions, animation, and hyperlinks), deliver a PowerPoint slide show, and save a file for distrituion on a website or a Blackboard site.
Workshop Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Create a new presentation using design and slide templates
- Add text, graphics, charts, and tables to slides
- Apply transition and animation effects
- Insert hyperlinks onto slides
- Deliver a slide show
- Print presentations
- Save a presentation in HTML, PDF, and PPT Package formats
- Design presentations for maximum effectiveness
Workshop Topics
This workshop is organized into four main topics:
- What’s the point of PowerPoint? explores the potential benefits of using PowerPoint and the ways in which a PowerPoint presentation may be used. Defining your goals for using PowerPoint will help you decide how to design and build an effective presentation.
- Creating a PowerPoint Presentation reviews the PowerPoint software interface and gives step-by-step instructions for developing a PowerPoint file.
- Delivering a Slide Show explains how to present a PowerPoint presentation to a live group.
- Distributing a PowerPoint File covers printing and several methods of electronic distribution, including saving a HTML or PDF, packaging a file, and delivering PowerPoint in Blackboard.
Throughout the workshop, best practices design tips are offered, to help you not only use PowerPoint, but use it well.
