2. Purpose of Power Point Course. The purpose of this course is for student to learn how to use Power Point to make slide presentations

3.  You can get to the class website by typing the address http://www.rlccomputer.com into the address bar of Internet Explorer and then pressing the Enter key on your keyboard. The current day's classes are listed on front page. Click the Intro to Power Point entry if its there. http://www.rlccomputer.com  If its not there then click on Courses on the main page. Then select Power Point Curriculum and click on it's entry.  Find the entry for Intro to Power Point and click on it to get to the page.  Please remember that you can always ask the Computer Lab Tech to help you get to this page. Website Name and Useage

4.  We are offering a course in Power Point in the mornings. mornings  We are also offering a course in Smart Phones in the afternoons afternoons  We will be offering a course In Basic Excel in the afternoons.  Would you be interested in taking a course on how to improve your typing. Upcoming Classes

5.  Please note that covers are available for you to store your handouts in.  Please ask the Computer Tech for a cover if you want one Covers for Handouts

6.  The reference book for this class is "Microsoft Power Point :Step by Step" by Joyce Cox and Joan Lambert published by Microsoft Press,Redmond,WA, 2010. A copy is available in the Computer Lab.  Microsoft Office 2010 for Dummies by Wallace Wang contains simplified help for Access,Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word and is also in the lab.  A way of getting help is to go into Google and put in key words describing your problem and see what Google can find in the way of solutions to your problem which most probably other people have experienced before you.Google Reference Material

7.  Want to share your name?  Want to share what’s important that’s happening in your life today?  Want to share what slide show you would like to make? Who are we and Why are we here

8.  There will be a $25 gift card for the best presentation suitable for use in a T-MHA Speakers Bureau.  Would you like to enter this competition or present on something else.  Close your eyes for thirty seconds and dream. What would you like to present?

9.  Find a partner  The person closest to the door shares for thirty seconds about who you want make a presentation on.  The other person just listen’s, doesn’t comment or give advice and then says “Thank you”.  Then the other person shares for thirty seconds about who you want make a presentation on. The other person just listen’s, doesn’t comment or give advice and then says “Thank you”. Share your idea of who you want to make a presentation on with a partner

10.  Date............  My name........  What do I want to get out of this course........  One specific outcome I want to get out of this course.....  What do I want my audience to do as a result of listening to my presentation?  The title of my presentation….  A 50 word or less outline of what’s in my presentation, i.e. an outline  Title slide…….. Slide 1……… Slide 2…….. etc. Last Slide……. What do I want to get out of this course

11.  Now print out your file by typing Ctrl-P (Hold down Ctrl key and press P), then press Print.  Please print your name and date on it and turn it into the instructor by the end of next week.  Print out another copy for yourself and put it in your folder. Print out your Goals

12.  Save it to your Flash Drive or Google Drive as PowerPoint3Goals.  See to learn how to use a Flash Drives.to learn how to use a Flash Drives  See How to use Google Drive to learn how to use the Google DriveHow to use Google Drive Save the file

13.  Click here to log in to Lynda.com and then press the left arrow at the top left corner of the page to come back to this display.here  Welcome 2m 6s Welcome  Getting Started with PowerPoint 33m 34s Getting Started with PowerPoint  A tour of PowerPoint 3m 50s A tour of PowerPoint  Planning your presentation 4m 56s Planning your presentation  Slide basics 4m 55s Slide basics  Saving, opening, and closing 4m 14s Saving, opening, and closing Presentations if you want to watch them

14. LetsDoIt So get on your computers

15. Instructor will share how to open Power Point

16.  To get into Power Point, click on the Start button in the lower left corner of the screen, the Start menu should appear.  In the box with Search Programs and Files, type in PowerPoint. Windows then searches for file names containing the word PowerPoint.  The Icon labeled Microsoft Power Point 2010 should appear at the top of the list.  Click on the Icon and the Microsoft PowerPoint will appear. Open PowerPoint

17. Instructor will share how to add a title.

18.  Before this assignment, you may want to review the Lynda.com movie on the subject called Slide basicsSlide basics  To get into Power Point, click on the Start button in the lower left corner of the screen, the Start menu should appear.  In the box with Search Programs and Files, type in PowerPoint. Windows then searches for file names containing the word PowerPoint.  The Icon labeled Microsoft Power Point 2010 should appear at the top of the list.  Click on the Icon and the Microsoft PowerPoint will appear.  A Power Point screen should appear with Click to add title and Click to add subtitle on it. Make the title slide for your presentation

19.  Click on Click to add title and it should disappear.  Type in the title of the title of your presentation, e.g. My Presentation or the actual title of your presentation  Click on Click to add subtitle, it should disappear.  Type in the a subtitle of your presentation or the words My Presentation subtitle Adding the title of your presentation

20.  Save it to your Flash Drive or Google Drive as My Presentation1  See to learn how to use a Flash Drives.to learn how to use a Flash Drives  See How to use Google Drive to learn how to use the Google DriveHow to use Google Drive Save the file

21.  Print out the page by typing in Ctrl-P (Hold down Ctrl key and press P) and then Print  Please print your name and date on it and turn it into the instructor by the end of next week. Print your Presentation.

22.  Reconnect with your partner  The person closest to the door shares for one minute about what happened in the class. The other person just listen’s, no comments and then says “Thank you”.  The other person then shares for one minute about what happened in the class. The other person just listen’s, no comments and then says “Thank you” What did you feel about what you learned today ?

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