1. Introduction to PowerPoint: For Educators
Kelly Bentley, Mladen Prelic Silva, Evan Specter
LRC Betts

2. Agenda Why use technology in the classroom?
Tips before starting a PowerPoint presentation
Basic steps to designing a PowerPoint presentation
Types of Presentations
Conclusion and Sources

3. Why?
“When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons.”

4. Why? Change in student/teacher roles
Increased motivation and self esteem
Technical skills
Accomplishment
Collaboration
Improved attention from audience

5. Tips Keep it Simple Clearly Communicate your Information
Stay in Control of Your Presentation
Grab Viewers Attention
Check Your Slides

6. Setting Up Slides Plan out your entire slide show
Create a series of blank slides
Insert the photographs
Adjust Picture Size
Change background Color
Rearrange slide order

7. Develop The Slide Show
Select the desired transition from the pull down menu under the Effect box.
Select transition speed (slow, medium, or fast).
Under the Advance box select how the transitions will be applied (automatically after the number of seconds that you type into the box)
Under the Sound box you can select a sound to be played during the slide transition
Apply the selected effect

8. Types of Presentations
Parent Presentation: For open house or night events
Instruction Presentation: To enhance effectiveness of classroom instructions
Creative Presentation: Like Flash Cards, Group Slide Shows, Music Class Recitals Student Portfolios etc.

9. Conclusion and Sources
We talked about how presentations are done and where they are used. We can use them in a parent meeting, in school or at work. PowerPoint presentations are used as a helping tool when we want to talk about something. They help us focus more on what the person is talking about. We must remember they are a helping tool so we are not supposed to write a lot of information and just read it. We must only put the main things to remember what we are talking about.
We did not add time to the slides because we wanted the person who is reading it to see them at their own pace.