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AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE
Thesis Research and Writing II
Introduction to PowerPoint
I. Opening Comments
For centuries, educators have recognized that there are many types of learners in the classroom. Some learners get information just fine by hearing it. Other learners have to take the information into their hands and manipulate it, like an art object, and experience it that way. One Harvard professor identified at least 7 styles of learning, but everyone acknowledges that visual is one of the most easily accepted ways to take in information.
In recent years that knowledge has spilled over into the public domain, and even preachers are adding additional portals to their insights using visual aids. For this class, students who are going to be presenting the fruits of their research will be required to use a visual aid that has become a standard in the field. It is called PowerPoint. If students do not have access to PowerPoint on their home computer, all computers in the computer lab of the Library of American Baptist College have PowerPoint loaded on them. In addition, most public libraries and most workplace computers have the program. Finally, it can be purchased in stores and online for a nominal fee.
II. Instruction
A. Visit the website: http://members.tripod.com/MR_LEGO_JOE/powerpoint_97_tutorial.htm
and walk through the 20 steps to create a simple powerpoint presentation. The instructor found it hard to see the screens in the side-by-side configuration recommended on the page. Students may, therefore, find it easier to launch both the tutorial and then PowerPoint and just click back and forth on the buttons that are created on the bottom of the screen to switch between applications. Send the presentation you create as an attachment to an e-mail to the instructor at wmartin@abcnash.edu REMEMBER: This is just an introduction to the program, PowerPoint. DO NOT try to create the final product for your presentation on this step of the assignment.
B. Visit the website:
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edit202/tutorial/PowerPoint/pptBasics/pptBasics.htm
This site will contain a much more comprehensive tutorial. Students are to work through what they can, noting if they don't have certain features which are called for (for example sound or video files.) They won't necessarily end up with a finished product, but they will learn a lot.
C. Comment on the class site. Remember to add the student's name and the post number each time you post!
Thesis Research and Writing II
Introduction to PowerPoint
I. Opening Comments
For centuries, educators have recognized that there are many types of learners in the classroom. Some learners get information just fine by hearing it. Other learners have to take the information into their hands and manipulate it, like an art object, and experience it that way. One Harvard professor identified at least 7 styles of learning, but everyone acknowledges that visual is one of the most easily accepted ways to take in information.
In recent years that knowledge has spilled over into the public domain, and even preachers are adding additional portals to their insights using visual aids. For this class, students who are going to be presenting the fruits of their research will be required to use a visual aid that has become a standard in the field. It is called PowerPoint. If students do not have access to PowerPoint on their home computer, all computers in the computer lab of the Library of American Baptist College have PowerPoint loaded on them. In addition, most public libraries and most workplace computers have the program. Finally, it can be purchased in stores and online for a nominal fee.
II. Instruction
A. Visit the website: http://members.tripod.com/MR_LEGO_JOE/powerpoint_97_tutorial.htm
and walk through the 20 steps to create a simple powerpoint presentation. The instructor found it hard to see the screens in the side-by-side configuration recommended on the page. Students may, therefore, find it easier to launch both the tutorial and then PowerPoint and just click back and forth on the buttons that are created on the bottom of the screen to switch between applications. Send the presentation you create as an attachment to an e-mail to the instructor at wmartin@abcnash.edu REMEMBER: This is just an introduction to the program, PowerPoint. DO NOT try to create the final product for your presentation on this step of the assignment.
B. Visit the website:
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edit202/tutorial/PowerPoint/pptBasics/pptBasics.htm
This site will contain a much more comprehensive tutorial. Students are to work through what they can, noting if they don't have certain features which are called for (for example sound or video files.) They won't necessarily end up with a finished product, but they will learn a lot.
C. Comment on the class site. Remember to add the student's name and the post number each time you post!
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