PowerPoint PowerPoint supplements (text & video) are available on the class website: Required Resources, Supplemental Mat., PowerPoint Web Resources

PowerPoint Presentation Design Skills PowerPoint Implementation Skills and

Today’s Objectives ▪ Distinguish between the required and prerequisite PowerPoint skills ▪ Demonstrate required and prerequisite PowerPoint skills ▪ Discuss guidelines for effective presentation design

How is Attendance Taken? ▪ Prerequisite: register i-clicker on class website ▪ Required Resources ▪ i-Clicker 2 ▪ Register your i-Clicker now ▪ Change frequency each class period ▪ Answer attendance questions via clicker, when asked throughout class period

How to Change Frequency? ▪ Press and hold Power button. ▪ Press C button then D button. Use Frequency CD

Left & Right Keys ▪ Toggle between modes: ▪ Question Selection Mode (cursor/brackets in top half of screen) ▪ Short Answer Mode (cursor/underscore in bottom half of screen) ▪ Short Answer Mode – move from character to character of the short answer you are inputting

Up & Down Keys ▪ Question Selection Mode – scroll through question numbers to select the question you are answering ▪ Short Answer Mode – scroll through alphabet to choose characters for your short answer

What PowerPoint Skills Are Prerequisite to Course? Open & Save Navigation Views Add, Delete & Hide Slides Fonts & Alignment Columns, Lists Word Art Shapes & Clipart If you do not have these skills or if you need to review these skills, you can find assistance at us/powerpoint-help/basic-tasks-for-creating-a-powerpoint presentation-HA aspx.

What PowerPoint Skills May Be Required for the Project? Design Theme Slide Layout Speaker Notes Hyperlink Printing SmartArt Tables Charts Images Sounds Video Headers & Footers Transitions

Design Theme ▪ Used to give the presentation and professional, consistent look and feel ▪ Stick to theme color palette

Slide Layout ▪ Used to control position of content components

Speaker Notes ▪ Used to provide content to the presenter in addition to what is displayed to audience ▪ May be used for examples and elaborations, sources, as well as “stage” directions

Hyperlink ▪ Used to link from a slide to a webpage or other document

Printing ▪ Slides – transparencies ▪ Notes – for speaker ▪ Outline ▪ Handouts – for audience

SmartArt ▪ Used to incorporate a graphical component to your text-based message

SmartArt (continued) ▪ Select a graphic that really supports your message

Tables, Chart, Image, Video ▪ Used to add interest to presentation ▪ Should support the message

Headers & Footers ▪ Consistent text at top or bottom of every slide ▪ Footers are usually more helpful in presentations

Headers & Footers (continued)

Transitions ▪ Used to add interest between slides ▪ Pick only one transition per presentation ▪ Different from animations

Where Can I Learn the Required PowerPoint Skills? ▪ PowerPoint supplements (text & video) are available on the class website: ▪ Required Resources ▪ Supplemental Materials ▪ PowerPoint Web Resources ▪ Textbooks on Reserve at Newman Library Circulation Desk

How to Design Effective Presentation? ▪ Make it Big ▪ Make it Clear ▪ Be Consistent ▪ Keep it Simple (Chen)

Keep It Simple (Transition) This transition is annoying, not enhancing "Appear" and "Disappear" are better (Chen)

Keep It Simple (Animation) 7 ft Too distracting ! (Chen)

Keep It Simple (Animation) 7 ft Simple & to the point (Chen)

Understanding Technology Floppy disk User interface CPU I/O Error Backup system Software Mouse Debugger Function key Main Storage Too many & not focused (Chen)

Understanding Technology Floppy disk User interface CPU I/O Error Backup system Software Mouse Debugger Function key Main Storage Progressive & thus focused (Chen)

Works Cited Chen, Victor. ERAU. Effective PowerPoint Presentations. [ppt] Retrieved December 3, 2013 from ctive-power-point-presentations