There are other courses out there that will help people in business figure out how to use Microsoft Office applications.

FRESH PERSPECTIVES offers these courses for you in your role as a classroom teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint for the Classroom Teacher       

This is intended for the PowerPoint rookie. There are no real prerequisites for this class. If you have worked with a computer at all, especially if you have some familiarity with Microsoft Word, you should be able to learn a great deal about presentation technology from this basic course.

During this course, you will learn how to create a PowerPoint slideshow, save, edit, format it AND remember where you saved it so you can get back to it again.

To accomplish that, you will …

Be invited to get comfortable in the PowerPoint environment to explore ribbons and tabs or menus, toolbars, keyboard and RIGHT CLICK options, as well as to understand defaults and how to change them – this includes learning the language, vocabulary and grammar of PowerPoint

Learn to create presentations in a variety of ways (blank presentation, from a design template, or using the AutoContent Wizard)

Create several presentations that you can use in your own classroom or teaching situation to help you present information to a variety of audiences

Learn to insert a variety of objects and apply a variety of formatting options to enhance your presentation

Explore a variety of output and printing options

Be prompted to reflect on how you might be able to apply the various features in your role as a classroom teacher and model of ethical technology use

 

You will need to have Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or 2003, Microsoft Word 2007 or 2003 and Adobe Acrobat. Reader

This course targets NETS-T 1, NETS-T 2, NETS-T 3, NETS-T 5, and NETS-T 6.

 

This course has been very beneficial to me seeing that I knew practically nothing about PowerPoint before taking the class.  I feel that the class has been very thorough and included necessary details to create valuable presentations.  I am very grateful for those details, because I am a person who needs to see the details in order to understand.  I feel that everything that I learned in this course has been very valuable in order for me to create PowerPoint presentations. 

Judy S

 

 

 

Intermediate PowerPoint for the Classroom Teacher  

This course is designed for the teacher who has used Microsoft PowerPoint and is fairly comfortable in the environment.

During this course, you will:

Learn additional methods for creating and applying design templates, working with and customizing color schemes, inserting graphics, clipart, WordArt, photos, hyperlinks

Learn how to create and present a variety of slide shows in different presentation formats (kiosk, automated)

Learn to create a PowerPoint presentation to help your students learn how to create basic PPT shows to demonstrate what they have learned from your class

You will need to have Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or 2003, Microsoft Word 2007 or 2003, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

This course targets NETS-T 1, NETS-T 2, NETS-T 3, NETS-T, and NETS-T 6.

 

I have really enjoyed this PowerPoint course.  It has been much more helpful than any I have taken previously.  I think the fact that I could work at my own pace and I don’t feel the pressure of seeing someone else put together their presentation seemingly effortlessly while I may have needed more time to get a similar result.  Also, it was so helpful to have clear instructions and the screenshots of what I should be seeing on my computer.    Cheryl B

 

Advanced PowerPoint for the Classroom Teacher      

This course is designed for the teacher who has a strong grounding in Microsoft PowerPoint and is very comfortable in the environment.

During this course, you will:

Learn the following: adding action buttons and animation, sound effects, soundtracks, and narration, movement, additional navigation techniques in PPT, working with and editing slide master elements, slide master / title master interaction, working with multiple and alternate masters, inserting animated GIFs and video clips,  working with macros, creating customized shows, creating user-friendly, interactive quizzes by using hidden slides

Create a PPT show in which you teach other teachers or your advanced students how to incorporate these techniques by actually incorporating them into the show

 

You will need to have Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or 2003, Microsoft Word 2007 or 2003 and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

This course targets NETS-T 1, NETS-T 2, NETS-T 3, NETS-T 5, and NETS-T 6.

 

 

My presentation has already improved ten-fold! With the original presentation I created a new slide every time I wanted to add something to the diagram. I’ve taken 7 slides from the old one and replaced them with just one in the new version. I’ve also added motion and sound which makes it much more interesting. I’m really excited about adding an interactive quiz at the end of the presentation. So far I’ve only added one question, but will continue to work on it. I am also waiting for the next lessons to see what else I can do.

Christina K

 

Sessions

Session 1 - Summer       June 2 –July 11, 2008

Session 2 - Summer       July 14 – August 22, 2008

Session 3 - Fall               October 6 – November 14, 2008

Session 4 - Fall               October 27 – December 5, 2008

 

Session 5 - Spring          January 5 – February 13, 2009

Session 6 - Spring          February 16 – March 27, 2009

 

 

Helping Teachers Enhance Student Learning

through Effective Use of Technology

Microsoft powerpoint 2007 and 2003

course offerings