A Basic Introduction to PowerPoint

1. A Basic Introduction to PowerPoint For ENSP Teachers October 8, 2001

2. Three necessary skills • Digitizing images and other media • Scanning • Saving images from the Web • Audio/video • PowerPoint itself • Using a projector

3. Places to get help with digitizing • The Digital Media Lab of the Robertson Media Center, 3rd floor Clemons • http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/ • The Electronic Text Center • http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

4. Places to get help with PowerPoint • ITC PowerPoint class • http://www.itc.virginia.edu/training/ • PowerPoint site • http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/default.htm • Presentations site • http://www.presentations.com/

5. Places to get help with projection • Guinn Baker, English Department administrator • ss9h@virginia.edu, Bryan 219 • The Arts and Sciences Center for Instructional Technology • http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/%7Easmedia/ • a-smedia@virginia.edu, Cabell 219 • ITC support staff for electronic classrooms • http://www.itc.virginia.edu/labs/classrooms/home.html

6. Get help from me • Amanda French, Teaching with Technology Support Partner • EnglTTSP@virginia.edu • http://www.people.virginia.edu/~alf7e • http://tti.itc.virginia.edu/ttsp.html

7. Two ways to use PowerPoint • Short, bulleted text, decorated with occasional images or clip art • Images only

8. Michael Inness, Passing Clouds, 1876

9. And now, to the exercises!