BEGINNING POWERPOINT Four Hour Overview ~ Hands-on The friendly, low-stress environment of this training encourages questions and learning, so participants leave confident in their ability to use PowerPoint. Participants will work alone or in pairs on computers. They will receive graphic step-by-step handouts from the book PowerPoint Workshop for Teachers to follow along as lessons are presented or the book will be offered for sale at a discounted price. Choose to have the presentation focus on one of the following skill and tool sets: Skills Your Teachers Learn... Tools They'll Create & Use Later... Powerpoint Basics Using AutoLayouts Setting transitions Word art Text boxes Inserting clip art Custom animation Speaker notes pages Changing the background Timing a slide show Printing options OR Using AutoLayouts Setting transitions Word art Text boxes Inserting clip art Custom animation Speaker notes pages Changing the background Timing a slide show Printing options Design templates Inserting movies Inserting graphics from the Web - Basic self-running screen saver - Screen saver that tells where you have gone - Classroom rules slide show OR - Curriculum night slide show - Lesson on amphibians - Lesson about the Food Pyramid One Day (6 hours) Workshop Participants in this training get to take advantage of the full day workshop format to not only learn key Microsoft PowerPoint skills in a fun, hands-on way, but also create a set of curricular documents and tools they can use later. Participants will work alone or in pairs on computers. They will work from the book PowerPoint Workshop for Teachers, which is required and offered at a discounted price, so they can follow along as lessons are presented. The friendly, low-stress environment of this training encourages questions and learning, so participants leave confident in their ability to use Excel. The topics listed below can be covered in more depth, or you can customize the workshop to cover certain skills in more depth or to cover different topics: Skills Your Teachers Learn... Tools They'll Create & Use Later.... Powerpoint Basics Using AutoLayouts Setting transitions Word art Text boxes Inserting clip art Custom animation Speaker notes pages Changing the background Timing a slide show Printing options Design templates Inserting movies Inserting graphics from the Web - Basic self-running screen saver - Screen saver that tells where you have gone - Classroom rules slide show - Curriculum night slide show - Lesson on amphibians - Lesson about the Food Pyramid

ADVANCED POWERPOINT These trainings are geared toward teachers who have mastered PowerPoint basics and are ready to take their productivity to the next level. Four Hour Overview The friendly, low-stress environment of this training encourages advanced questions and learning, so participants leave confident in their ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint. Participants will work alone or in pairs on computers. They will receive graphic step-by-step handouts from the book PowerPoint Workshop for Teachers to follow along as lessons are presented or the book will be offered for sale at a discounted price. Choose to have the presentation focus on one of the skill sets listed below (based on participants' experience level with PowerPoint): Skills Your Teachers Learn... Tools They'll Create & Use Later... AutoLayouts Custom animation Charts Tables Linking presentations Adding sounds OR Organization charts Inserting Word files Inserting scanned pictures Saving as HTML - Checking account worksheet - Pets slide show - Multimedia pets presentation       OR - Presentation before the School Board - Video yearbook - Presentation for the Web One-Day Workshop (6 hours) Participants in this training get to take advantage of the full day workshop format to not only learn key Microsoft PowerPoint skills in a fun, hands-on way, but also create a set of curricular documents and tools they can use later. Participants will work alone or in pairs on computers. They will work from the book PowerPoint Workshop for Teachers, which is required and offered at a discounted price, so they can follow along as lessons are presented. The friendly, low-stress environment of this training encourages questions and learning, so participants leave confident in their ability to use PowerPoint. The topics listed below can be covered in more depth, or you can customize the workshop to cover certain skills in more depth or to cover different topics: Skills Your Teachers Learn... Tools They'll Create & Use Later.... AutoLayouts Custom animation Charts Tables Linking presentations Adding sounds Organization charts Inserting Word files Inserting scanned pictures Saving as HTML - Checking account worksheet - Pets slide show - Multimedia pets presentation - Presentation before the School Board - Video yearbook - Presentation for the Web

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