Teaching with PowerPoint

This tutorial is designed to help faculty assess their goals for using PowerPoint and develop presentations to meet those goals. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to create a PowerPoint file (including text, graphics, transitions, animation, and hyperlinks), deliver a PowerPoint slide show, and save a file for distrituion on a website or a Blackboard site.

Objectives

By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to:

• Create a new presentation using design and slide templates
• Add text, graphics, charts, and tables to slides
• Apply transition and animation effects
• Insert hyperlinks onto slides
• Deliver a slide show
• Print presentations
• Save a presentation in HTML, PDF, and PPT Package formats
• Design presentations for maximum effectiveness

Topics

This tutorial is organized into four main topics:

• What’s the point of PowerPoint? explores the potential benefits of using PowerPoint and the ways in which a PowerPoint presentation may be used. Defining your goals for using PowerPoint will help you decide how to design and build an effective presentation.
• Creating a PowerPoint Presentation reviews the PowerPoint software interface and gives step-by-step instructions for developing a PowerPoint file.
• Delivering a Slide Show explains how to present a PowerPoint presentation to a live group.
• Distributing a PowerPoint File covers printing and several methods of electronic distribution, including saving a HTML or PDF, packaging a file, and delivering PowerPoint in Blackboard.

Throughout the tutorial, best practices design tips are offered, to help you not only use PowerPoint, but use it well.