Google Earth, a tool that combines satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings, has partnered with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) to bring forth tangible proof of the devastation that is taking place in Darfur. It is a particularly good advocacy tool because it gives a clear visual representation of what is taking place in Darfur. Use this guide for tips on how to use Google Earth to move Darfur as a significant issue on your campus.
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Google Apps for Education: ePortfolio and Formative Assessment Workflow
Schools and universities can set up free Google Apps accounts with their own domain name, where they can give all student and faculty acces to a variety of tools, including a GMail account, iGoogle portal, Google Groups for collaboration, and Pages, for creating websites. Each user can also use their GMail account to activate other Google services, such as GoogleDocs. Students and teachers have email accounts, with more than 2 GB of storage per account. Gmail is the web-based or POP-mail account that is also the common ID for other Google applications.
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In the beginning, the World Wide Web (WWW) was flat. It was an electronic library where academics and scientists posted dissertations and dusty data for reading with clunky, text-only browsers. With the advent of graphical browsers, the consumer oriented Web took off. Content became vastly more colorful. Remember where you were the first time you experienced the exciting blink and marquee tags? (I bet you wish you could forget those gems!) Anyway, the Web has evolved as a rich, interactive, and personalized medium. In the new version of Web (Web 2.0), functional pages aren’t enough. User experience (abbreviated as UX in geekspeak) is hot, and sites are cool. This chapter looks at Microsoft’s tools and technologies for creating and delivering engaging Web content.
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This handout will guide you through setting up a poster in PowerPoint, inserting text and images, and preparing the poster for printing.
Creating your document
A poster created in PowerPoint usually consists of a single slide.
Launch Microsoft PowerPoint. PowerPoint will automatically open a blank presentation.
To resize the slide, select Page Setup from the File menu.
In the dialog box that pops up, select Custom under Slides sized for:
Then enter the width and height of your poster, in inches. PowerPoint will automatically set portrait or landscape orientation based on the measurements you enter.
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What is Impatica for PowerPoint? 3 Downloading Impatica for PowerPoint 4 Installing Impatica for PowerPoint 5 Uninstalling Impatica for PowerPoint 6 Using Impatica for PowerPoint 6.1 Running Impatica for PowerPoint 6.2 Accepting the License Agreement 6.3 Registering Your Copy of Impatica for PowerPoint 6.4 Selecting the Source Content Files for Translation 6.5 Translation Options 6.5.1 Slide Show 6.5.2 Media and Animations 6.6 Translating Your Presentations 6.7 Preview 6.8 Deleting Impatica Files 6.9 Translation Summary 6.10 Web Server Upload Tab 6.10.1 Establishing a Connection to Your Web Server 6.10.2 Navigating through Files on Your Server 6.10.3 Creating a New Folder on Your Server 6.10.4 Deleting a File or Folder from Your Server 6.10.5 Uploading Files 6.10.6 Previewing Files from your Server 6.11 File Info Tab 6.11.1 Source PowerPoint File 6.11.2 Translation Settings Used 6.11.3 Translated Impatica File 6.12 E-mail HTML Tab 6.12.1 Attributes of the E-mail HTML
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Introduction Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 is a presentation graphics program for creating computer screen slide show,transparencies, printed handouts, or for posting a presentation to the web. This workshop is designed to help new and existing PowerPoint users get a basic to intermediate understanding of the newly designed PowerPoint interface for 2004 for the Macintosh. Participants will learn how to insert text,graphics (including using the Drawing Tools and inserting images and WordArt), movies, tables, transitions, animations, hyperlinks to web pages, printing presentation handouts, and converting the final product to HTML so that the presentation may be viewed from a web page or from Blackboard.
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The Basics, Part 1: Creating a Series of Slides
1. Start PowerPoint From the Start menu click on
> Programs
> Microsoft Office XP
> Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Note the New Presentation task pane on the right side of your screen. Under New click on Blank Presentation link.
3. The initial slide that displays in the center of the screen is a title slide. Click to add title area and type in PowerPoint XP Basics. In the Click to add subtitle area type your name, title and email address.
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