Getting the Most from PowerPoint
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Instructor: Jeff Mayem
Getting the Most from PowerPoint
Do you "get the jitters" when you have to:
In these situations, do you rely on hand-written notes? Do you struggle with overhead transparencies or flip charts? Do you wish that you could be a more effective presenter? Then this workshop is for you.
- make a presentation to a community group.
- address a meeting of the library board or Friends group.
- defend your budget before the city council.
- introduce a new service to staff or the public.
- teach an instructional session.
PowerPoint is a powerful tool that library staff members can use in a variety of work-related situations. It will not only help the audience focus on important points but it will help you, the presenter, stay on track. PowerPoint also allows you to make last-minute updates or "on-the-spot" changes to your presentation. Graphics, sounds, and movements are easily incorporated into presentations. Learn the "magic" behind creating a top-notch presentation.
Workshop Description: In
this all-day beginning PowerPoint class,
you will learn the basic ins and outs of
creating a new PowerPoint presentation and
altering an existing presentation. We will
cover the various print options that are
so important when you need to create
student handouts or presenter's notes.
Highlights: While creating a short PowerPoint presentation in the workshop you will learn to:
- Create presentations with your own color choices and backgrounds
- Copy and paste slides between presentations
- Use the various PowerPoint views to reorder slides
- Efficiently rearrange screens for maximum readability
- "Build a slide" to give movement to the screen
- Add graphics and sounds
- Add notes to each slide
- Modify another's presentation for your own needs
Note: For California public libraries receiving Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants, this workshop is a Gates "follow-on" that supports software on your Gates workstations.
Who should attend: Anyone who would like to use PowerPoint to create presentations for meetings, staff training or to create learning modules.
Prerequisites: Those attending should be:
- comfortable using a mouse
- able to open a program and save a file
Please Note: There is a $50.00 fee for this workshop. InFoPeople does not provide parking passes, lunch or refreshments.
Fee increase note: The fee for most Infopeople workshops scheduled for the 2001/2002 fiscal year (i.e., those workshops scheduled on or after October 1, 2001) has been raised to $75. Some special workshops, such as those that cover more than one day or that involve the distribution of licensed software or other products, may have higher fees.
Check-in: 8:30 to 9 AM Instruction: 9 AM to 4:30 PM
