PointlessToPowerful

From Pointless to Powerful: Beyond the Basics with //PowerPoint//
**Session Description:** Join us in this hands-on session as we take //PowerPoint// beyond the basics. The focus will be on using advanced features to enhance the teaching and learning process through the use of non-linear presentation. Through hands-on experience, participants will create non-linear //PowerPoint// presentations for use in the classroom with features such as screen tips, hyperlinking, Web-based templates, and more!

**Session Agenda** - [|Agenda.doc]

 * Pictures for Presentations**

Powerful //PowerPoints// - http://www.180techtips.com/16.htm

Web-based Resources
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 * Tech Tips – Guidelines for Better //PowerPoints://** GREAT site for information literacy information. Presented in a very easy-to-understand format.

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 * //PowerPoint//** **in the Classroom:** This Web site contains a tutorial for using //PowerPoint// in the classroom. It is important that you complete each of the units (1 through 8) in sequential order.

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 * Dr. Alice Christie's Using //PowerPoint//** **in the Classroom:** This Web site contains tips, tricks, tutorials, templates, classroom ideas, and other resources for using //PowerPoint.//

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 * Microsoft Education:** The site contains instructional resources, such as tutorials, lesson plans, and how-to articles, for using Microsoft //PowerPoint// in the classroom.

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 * Landmark’s Citation Machine:** This free, Web-based citation machine will help you to properly cite references in both APA and MLA format.

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 * Pics4Learning:** Includes both photographs and clip art, organized into topics, free to use in an educational setting.

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 * Clip Art – Public Domain Images:** This site contains a list of resource for quality clip art images and photographs that are free for art educators to use.

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 * Free //PowerPoint//** **Templates for Students & Teachers:** This site contains a FREE section of //PowerPoint// templates available for download.

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 * //PowerPoint//** **Templates Created By Educators:** This site contains FREE templates and sample //PowerPoint// activities for use in the classroom.

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 * Online Technology Practice Tutorials – //PowerPoint//** **:** This site contains tutorials, lesson plans, templates, and other ideas for uses of //PowerPoint// in the classroom.

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 * //PowerPoint//** **Games:** This Web site contains a list of links to downloadable //PowerPoint// files that reflect popular game show formats. You are advised to rename the activity.

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 * //PowerPoint//** **Lessons:** This site includes links to templates, examples of games, and lesson ideas that have been created using //PowerPoint.//

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 * Interactive //PowerPoint//** : Links to handouts, Web sites, images, copyright information, citation styles and sounds.

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 * //PowerPoint//** **Features to Use in the Classroom** : Links to several resources arranged in the following categories: Tutorials, Ideas and/or Class Examples, Copyright Issues, Presentation Rubrics, Using //PowerPoint// as Popular Game Shows, Multimedia Links, and Other Classroom Examples.

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 * Pete’s //PowerPoint//** **Station** : Links to many free PowerPoint presentations that have been created and available for teachers to use.