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PowerPoint: What's the Point?

Welcome to the Course Page for PowerPoint: What's the Point? Fall 2024

Course Description: This is a 5-week course. This class is for those already familiar with PowerPoint (PPt), whether you’re an ICL instructor or not. Even experienced users are surprised that there’s more to learn. We’ll start with a refresher session (basics) and quickly move to dos and don’ts of using PPt for teaching, transitions, graphics, animations, integrating and managing media via PPt, and how to integrate PPt with Zoom. You can also bring your own projects, questions and concerns and we’ll try to help. We’ll use a workshop, rather than lecture, format and give you plenty of time to practice what you learn.

Special Note: See preparation notes at the Class 1 link.

Contact Information
Instructor: Read Gilgen
read@gilgenart.com
435-313-3905 (text)

Syllabus for Fall 2024

(Files updated: September 12, 2024 )

A general outline of things we can cover, but we’ll be flexible.
Click on the class number to see files related to that class (examples, exercises, etc.

Class 1: Sept 10

  1. Review
  2. Do’s and Don’ts
  3. Building the slide show
  4. Preparing Slide Show for Presentation
  5. Presenting
  6. Set agenda for future sessions
  7. Homework! Download this file:
    PowerPointProjectSlideShow

Class 2: September 17

  1. Text (options)
  2. Animations (text)
  3. Transitions

Class 3: September 24

  1. Graphics overview
  2. Graphics sources
  3. Modifying/combining/animating graphics

Class 4: October 1

  1. Multimedia sources & considerations
  2. Embedding Audio & Playback options
  3. Embedding Video & Playback options

Class 5: October 8

  1. Links
  2. Master Slides
  3. Handouts (File/Export/PDF)

Software Links