During the 25 years that I have delivered professional development activities for educators, I have always tried to model the technologies and techniques that I was teaching. In recent years, the efforts have had less to do with specific technologies, software products, services, and much more to do with philosophies where learning happens as part of continuing and multi-dimensional conversations among learners and teachers, and others on the Net. This is what the emerging new web, web 2.0 has done to my vision of education.
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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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