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Technology Competencies
Introduction to Presentations: PowerPoint
Description: This introductory course is designed for teachers who want to learn to create dynamic PowerPoint presentations using color, text, graphic objects, patterns, shadows, clip art, pictures, charts, and slide shows.
Prerequisite Skills: Introduction to Windows
Outline
A. Layout and Design Principles
  1. Field, Focus, Fringe & pointers
  2. Consistency, White Space, Harmony, Balance
    Creating a Presentation
  3. Create a blank presentation
  4. Crate a new presentation using a presentation
  5. design template
  6. Open an existing presentation
  7. Working with Slides
  8. Creating new Slides
  9. Choosing & Changing a Slide Layout
  10. Duplicating, Deleting a Slide
  11. Moving from Slide to Slide
  12. Modifying a Presentation
  13. Applying the Design from an Existing File
B. Working with Text
  1. Working with Text Objects
  2. Formatting text (Size, color, font, alignment)
  3. Cut, Copy, Paste
C. Working with Tables
  1. Creating a Table
  2. Entering Data in a Table
  3. Adding the Table to the Slide
  4. Editing Table Entries
D. Working with Clip Art and Pictures
  1. Inserting, Moving, Resizing Clip Art
 E. Manipulating Graphic Objects
  1. Adding Text to Objects
  2. Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete an object
  3. Using Word Art
  4. Using the drawing tools
  5. Line, box, ellipse, autoshapes
  6. Fill, line, font colors
  7. Shadow & 3D options
  8. Grouping, ungrouping, and ordering objects
  9. Flip, rotate, align, and distribute objects
F. Viewing and Managing Slides
  1. Working with Views
  2. Viewing a Slide Miniature
  3. Changing the View Size
  4. Change slide orientation (portrait/landscape)
  5. Working with the Slide Sorter
  6. Printing a Presentation (Options)
G. Running Slide Shows
  1. Running Slide Shows
  2. Adding Slide Transitions
  3. Exit Slide Show but not the program
  4. Close current document without quitting the program
H. Saving
  1. Save to a disk, folder