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Course description: Dynamic Presentations with PowerPoint
The ability to create and give dynamic presentations is one of the most valuable skills a person can have. It gives you the ability to communicate your ideas clearly and attractively and enhances your opportunities for success.
Prerequisites:
Students must have MS PowerPoint 2003 or higher installed on their computer. Being able to open and navigate MS PowerPoint is presumed and required. Examples shown in this course will be from PowerPoint 2003. Later versions may have slightly different screen views, but the concepts and techniques will apply to all versions.
- Week 1: Getting Started and the Mechanics
- Opening a new presentation
- Selecting a style and colors
- Viewing your presentation
- Saving your presentation
- Adding, deleting, moving, copying slides
- The slide viewer and sorting slides
- Uploading your presentation to the web
- Week 2: Exploring Text
- Use of fonts
- Sizing your text
- Adding bullets and other highlights
- Coloring your text effectively
- Using line colors, borders, and fills
- Moving and sizing text boxes
- The art of effective text
- Week 3: Graphics and Pictures
- Inserting pictures into your presentation
- Sizing and borders
- Objects, order, and grouping
- Lines and arrows
- Color, size, and orientation
- Word art and clip art
- Banners and other autoshapes
- The art of effective graphics
- Week 4: Animation and Sound
- Preset and custom animations
- Ordering and timing the animation
- Animation effects
- The art of animation
- Slide transitions
- Sound and narration
- Week 5: Tables, Charts, Graphs, and Master Slides
- Creating tables
- Creating charts
- Chart styles
- Creating graphs
- Animating charts and graphs
- The art of charts and graphs
- Master Slides
- Week 6: Dynamic Presentations
- Backgrounds and colors
- Animation and sound
- Size and font
- Highlighting
- Coherency
- Text vs graphics
- Giving the presentation
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