Why PowerPoint? (or any slide show application?)

• Addresses multiple intelligences by using color, images, shapes, sound, music, video (multimedia) etc. to reinforce the important points
  
• Students can see, hear, or “feel” the concepts etc.
  
• As an interactive tool. (Group or class games to practice or review concepts, i.e. Jeopardy, Millionaire, etc.)
  
• When students share ideas and learning with PowerPoint, they are often more interested in a quality product.
  
  

Ways PowerPoint could be used for students to show what they have learned:

• creating on-line presentations of directions or procedures (build effects)
  
• visual display of comparison studies
  
• present charted data collected from spreadsheets
  
• creating games with immediate feedback through hyperlinks
  

Online Resources:
Using PowerPoint in the Classroom:
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/print/157

More teaching strategies for using PowerPoint:
http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/TGuides/ppt-guides/ppt-teaching.html

PowerPoint Lessons and Activities (Jeopardy Games)
http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm
http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm

PowerPoint Tips and Hints
http://www.bitbetter.com/powerfaq.htm

When the drawing tools are active, there are several layers of sub-menus available. Be sure to explore the

Autoshapes

These are helpful for illustrating math concepts. When creating diagrams, draw lines using the Connector lines as they remain attached to shapes even when rearranged.

Word Art
Special Word Art effects can be created quickly and easily using the Draw toolbar. Choose a preset style from the WordArt gallery, or create custom color, shadow, and alignment effect.
Click the Insert WordArt icon on the Toolbar: and select a style from the Gallery:

PowerPoint Charts:

Nearly every part of a PowerPoint chart can be formatted separately, allowing users control of the appearance of the chart and the way data is displayed. PowerPoint charts have many different “regions” which are not obvious to the user.

• To identify a part of a chart, double click the chart, and hover your mouse pointer over any part, a popup will appear identifying the region.
  
• Each named region can be formatted separately by double-clicking on the region.

Animation

Slides containing a combination of text, images and charts should be animated using the Slide Show -> Custom Animation feature. You can select varying Effects, Order and Timing and Options depending upon the item(s) being animated.

 

Using the Pen to mark slides during the presentation:

Click the bottom left of the presentation to activate the Pointer Options menu to select the pen (notice the shortcut key).

Object Size and Placment

Use the Format -> Object menu to precisely size and position objects on your slides.