Making Magic Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and Video in the Classroom

Produce powerful PowerPoint presentations that promote your learning objectives. Create a PowerPoint from scratch in seconds, design a template that matches your subject, and animate text/objects for maximum effect. Incorporate video, audio, and dynamic royalty free photos that enhance your delivery of complex subjects that your students will love. Implement shortcuts and links that save you money and time both in design and on the platform.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize common mistakes made when delivering Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
2. Identify differences between PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003, and earlier versions.
3. Implement shortcuts when creating PowerPoint and presenting information.
4. Identify steps to insert pictures, videos, and music into PowerPoint to add special effects enhancing learning and entertainment of the presentation.
5. Recognize the differences between royalty free photos and music and how to acquire them to avoid intellectual property disputes.
6. Recite steps to add animation to slides, text, pictures, and videos.
7. Create notes pages for their PowerPoint presentations saving time in re-creating materials.
8. List the steps needed to create a self running PowerPoint presentation to either play at a kiosk or burn to a CD-Rom.
9. Recognize add on programs to PowerPoint including Snag-It, Camtasia, PowerPlugs to add special effects, graphics, and WOW factors to PowerPoint presentations.

Estimated length (3- 4 hrs)

Audience size 20-100

Testimonials

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Thank you for the awesome training on power point. I can’t wait to apply all learned today. You are truly gifted with communication and teaching. Stephanie Perrault