Course Title: Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 in the Classroom
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: Tracy Loffer [Bio]
Description:
You'll see how using PowerPoint helps you address different learning styles, making it much easier to engage a variety of learners.
First, we'll cover the basics of this MS Office program including creating slides, using templates, inserting text, changing background colors, creating WordArt titles, and adding slide transitions. Then you'll develop advanced skills such as inserting graphics, sound, video, custom animations, timed transitions, and hyperlinks.
We'll walk step-by-step through several different types of classroom presentations, including lectures and interactive narrations for your students' independent use on computer stations. By the end of the course, you'll be able to publish your presentation on a school Web site or even take your PowerPoint shows on the road. Along the way, we'll talk about how you can help your students develop their own PowerPoint and presentation skills.
So get ready to discover why PowerPoint can be such a fun and motivational tool that adds appeal to any classroom subject!
Goals:
You'll know how to motivate students and enrich lessons by bringing Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 into your classroom. You'll master a variety of uses for this MS Office program and come away able to develop lessons and presentations filled with text, graphics, sound, and video. You'll be able to use PowerPoint templates or create your own dynamic presentations that will increase interest in any subject you teach!
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
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Instructor Bio: Tracy Loffer
Tracy Loffer holds a Master's degree in Education in Curriculum and Instruction. She has been involved in education for twenty years, as a music educator and technology trainer of students and teachers. She has also worked in the private sector as a trainer of domestic and international technology franchisees as well as a writer and developmental editor of educational technology materials using Office, Publisher, and FrontPage.
