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Using PowerPoint

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• Edgewater College

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• Multimedia presentations may be compelling and
  persuasive, or they may be glib and
  disappointing.
• Power-pointing can become a goal in itself - an
  unfortunate example of technology being done for
  technology's own sake. In the best case, the
  presentation enhances and communicates a larger
  and deeper body of work and thought.
• Scoring PowerPoints by Jamie McKenzie

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Procedural Presentations

• Offer information on "how to" accomplish or
  succeed at a particular task or concept. 
• Useful to explain a step by step process or
  procedure to reach a desired result.

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Explain a process

• Make a presentation which explains how to create
  tessellations using Microsoft Word.

Tessellation - Maths
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Information and Video

• The Basketball action explained.
• Show video to demonstrate this skill.

Basketball skills Snr Physical Education
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Informational Presentations

• For a student
• Present information about a particular topic or
  concept. 
• Organise information gathered for a report or
  represent the learning of a new concept.   
• For a teacher
• Develop a presentation to teach a lesson,
  introduce a concept, or present information at a
  workshop. 

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Film Review

• Slides explain the information that the students
  must cover in their assignment.

Finding Forrester Snr English
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Biology Speech

• Limited to 10 slides to explain research
  assignment on Biotechnology.
• Slides list main points and the notes section
  contains students speech.
• Printed out using Note view.

Research Assignment Snr Biology
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Images

• A list of ideas that explain a point
• An image to demonstrate the concept.

Static Images Snr English
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Picture animation

• Each slide has a different picture.
• Slide advances automatically.
• Picture created in paint.

Conduction / Convection Junior Science
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Interactive Activities

• Created using "Action Buttons so linear
  presentations are transformed into a non-linear
  presentation. 
• In a hyperlinked presentation you click on one
  button to jump to a slide that is not in sequence
  with the previous slide.

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Hollywood squares

• Click on a square to move to a question slide.
• Answer is given verbally. Click on slide to check
  answer.
• Move back to main page and click in the white
  square and type in an X or O.

Addition Junior maths
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Twist a plot

• Read a story and then make a choice as to where
  the plot will go.
• Story-board created using Inspiration.
• Used for Creative writing for Communication
  English Unit Standard.

Nursery Rhymes - English
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Write answers

• Students change the arrow to a pen and write
  their answers on the slide.
• When they exit the presentation they can keep
  their ink annotations.
• Save as a different name and email to teacher for
  checking.

Triangulation Junior maths
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Normal View

• Students open the PowerPoint and then use the
  fill function to complete the activity.
• They can save the presentation using their name.

Fractions Junior maths
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Writing on the slide

• Change the mouse pointer to a pen and write on
  the slide.
• Ctrl P to change to a pen.
• Ctrl A to change to an arrow.

Expanding numbers Junior maths
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Word Finds

• Aids the student in word recognition.
• Change the pointer to a highlighter pen.
• Completed activity can be mailed back to teacher.

Word Finds Reading recovery
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Producer and PowerPoint

• Assessment Task is for French Standard 2.2
  (AS90396)
• Student presents a prepared speech of at least 2
  min duration in French.
• Allowed to have visual prompts and up to 20 words
  in French.

Speech Snr French
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Double Jeopardy

• Each square is an Action button that links to a
  slide containing an answer.
• The student comes up with the question.
• The recorder records the dollar value.

Ancient Egypt History
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Who wants to be a Millionaire?

• Series of questions added for each money level.

Revision Social Studies
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Celebratory Presentations

• A collection of numerous pictures highlighting a
  particular event or passage of time. 
• Often includes music and is created for an
  audience. 

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• classroom memory album
• scrapbook
• year end multimedia presentation
• school promotional presentation
• field trip
• review of events for a sporting team or school
  club
• graduation ceremony

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Create Print

• Print Screen to Make Screen shots.
• The "Print Screen" button is located on the
  keyboard (Print scr). . 
• The "print screen" button is like a "copy
  button".  When you press the button there isn't
  any indication that you have copied the screen,
  but you have!  When you navigate to PowerPoint,
  create a blank slide then click on the "paste"
  button.  The screen shot will insert as a graphic
  and will be resizable.
• Digital Books
• Digital books are simply PowerPoint slides or
  handouts printed on paper.  The slides are an
  excellent size to print out individually and then
  staple into a book.  The print handouts option
  offers the opportunity to print 6 miniature
  slides on a page.  Students can cut out the
  individual slides and staple together to make
  mini-books!

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Explain a set of instructions

• Take a series of screen shots to show how to use
  a website.

Screen shots Snr Biology
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Powerpoints

• Double Jeopardy Geometry
• Using a series of line drawings to show
  progression of an action or idea - This is a
  physics lesson on how the angle of a plane
  affects the component forces. However, this
  strategy could be used to teach any progression
  of steps.
• Teaching Spelling

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Web sites

• McKenzie, Jamie From Now OnThe Educational
  Technology Journal Vol 10,No 1,September,2000
  Online 8 March 2006. http//www.fno.org/sept00/
  powerpoints.html
• Jeopardy Games - by Hardin County Teachers
  http//www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopar
  dygames.htm
• Line Drawings, Spelling and many more -
  http//www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpo
  int.htm
• Game templates - http//208.183.128.3/tutorials/PP
  T-games/

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Programs

• Movie Maker 2.1 - http//www.microsoft.com/windows
  xp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
• Producer 2003 - http//www.microsoft.com/windows/w
  indowsmedia/technologies/producer.mspx

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Producer
A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to
its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894 US Author Physician