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Computer Applications > Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
 Easy to learn and fun to use, PowerPoint 2003 sets the standard by which all other presentation programs are measured.
In
this highly interactive hands-on class, you'll learn how to create
dazzling multimedia presentations for just about any audience. You'll
be able to create and display slides filled with formatted text, video,
audio, animation, special effects, charts, outlines, video clips,
images, and links to the Web.
You'll learn how to work with
task panes and the clip organizer, and how to access the Design Gallery
Live and Template Gallery Web sites to download clip art and templates
for your presentations. You'll even be able to save your presentations
in HTML so they can be shared with others over the Web.
You'll
also learn how to use some of the exciting new features exclusive to
PowerPoint 2003, including the new PowerPoint Viewer, the
Package-for-CD feature, and the Reference task pane.
Your
instructor will share with you her many years of teaching experience,
providing you with valuable tips and keyboard shortcuts to use with
PowerPoint 2003. She'll also take you on many field trips to useful Web
sites that will help broaden your knowledge of PowerPoint.
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Syllabus:
All
courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two
lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course.
You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must
complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new
section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each
month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure
to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
Come
explore the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, including how
to plan a presentation and start the PowerPoint program. PowerPoint's
Auto-Content Wizard makes it easy to create a professional looking
presentation in a very short time. In our first lesson, we'll look at
the menus and the many toolbars you have at your disposal with
PowerPoint 2003. We'll also look at other basics, including working
with different views, task panes, and tabs.
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
Now
that you know the basics of PowerPoint, you can create a presentation
from scratch. We'll start by choosing a colored design template from
the Slide Design task pane and choose a layout for your first few
slides with the Slide Layout task pane. We'll discuss the two things
you need to do to save a file so you know where to find it later. Then
we'll go over the different ways to put on a slide show. We'll be
covering a lot of important stuff in this lesson!
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
You'll
find that there's usually more than one way to perform a task. In this
lesson, I'll show you multiple ways to open a presentation. Then, I'll
teach you how to open a file and save it with a different name. Chances
are you'll need to edit the text on your slides; so I'll teach you how
to use the Outline tab to work with just the text on your slides. As
the class progresses, you'll add new slides to your presentation and
learn to work with different slide layouts. You'll also learn how to
create and edit table slides and work with the Tables and Borders
toolbar in this lesson.
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
No
program is complete without a Spell Checker. PowerPoint not only has a
Spell Checker, but a Style Checker as well. The Style Checker helps
maintain consistency throughout your presentation as it can check for
the consistent use of punctuation and capital letters, among other
things. Microsoft added the ability to do online research within
PowerPoint 2003 with the Research task pane. I'm sure you'll be
surprised to see how the Print dialog box in PowerPoint is different
from other programs. You'll also learn all about the options in the
Print dialog box in this lesson, including how to print slides,
handouts, an outline, and notes.
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
We're
going to switch gears in this lesson and work with images instead of
text. I'll show you how to embellish your slides with media clips,
which could be a piece of clip art, a photograph, a movie, or a sound
clip. You'll even learn how to download an image from a Web site and
insert the image on a slide. We'll spend a lot of time talking about
the Clip Art task pane, which is the tool you'll use to organize,
search for, and insert media clips on your slides.
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
Hope
you like to draw, because that's what we'll be doing in this lesson!
The good news is that you don't have to be an artist to use the WordArt
and AutoShape tools on the Drawing toolbar to draw shapes on your
slide. With the WordArt feature, you'll transform your text into an
object that can be designed with color, texture, patterns, or just
about anything you like. With the AutoShapes tool, you can draw all
kinds of shapes including lines and connectors, a smiley face, a
crescent moon, stars, banners, block arrows, flow chart symbols,
callouts, and more! You can format these AutoShape objects with color
and texture just like you can format your WordArt objects. After
getting a few objects on a slide, I'll show you how you can group them
into one object.
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
In
this lesson, you'll learn how to create and edit chart slides to
illustrate statistical data. You'll find this lesson easy if you like
working with math and numbers. If you're one of the many who don't like
math, that's okay because I'll walk you through everything you need to
do and know to create a chart slide. If you have used a spreadsheet
program, such as Microsoft Excel, creating chart slides in PowerPoint
will be a breeze. And while you're working with numbers and math, you
can still be creative with your charts by changing the options such as
font color and size, bar color, chart type, and so on.
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
The
topic of today's lesson is animation. You'll learn about Slide
Transitions and Animation Schemes. A slide transition is an animation
effect that plays during a slide show when a new slide appears. For
example, a slide might fly in from the top or perhaps it pushes up from
the bottom. After learning about slide transitions, you'll learn about
animation schemes, which allow you to apply animation to the text and
some objects on your presentation slides. You'll learn that some
animations schemes contain more animation features than other schemes,
and some even include a slide transition. I think you'll find the
Animation Schemes feature fun and easy to use.
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
Another
animation feature, Custom Animation, is on our agenda for today. While
slide transitions allow you to apply animation to your slides as they
transition, and animation schemes allow you to apply animation to text
on your slides, custom animation allows you to apply animation to text
and objects on individual slides. The Custom Animation task pane allows
you to customize the animation on any slide. I'll show you how to use
the Custom Animation task pane to add and reorder animated text and
objects on a slide and how to add sound effects and music to your
presentation.
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
In
this lesson, you'll broaden your PowerPoint knowledge with two
features. One is the ability to save your presentation as a Web page
and view it online with a browser such as Internet Explorer. This
feature seems to get better with every version of PowerPoint. The other
feature we'll explore is the Package for CD command on PowerPoint's
File menu. This is a new feature in PowerPoint 2003 and I think you'll
really appreciate it. It allows you to save PowerPoint presentations on
a CD if you use the Windows XP operating system and your computer has a
CD burner. If you have a CD burner, but you're using Windows 2000, you
can use the Package for CD feature to package your presentation and any
supporting files to a folder.
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
Today
we'll take a look at ways to change a presentation's look with masters,
color schemes, and backgrounds. Masters are used to make global changes
to your slides, handouts, and notes. For example, if you want to
increase or decrease the font size of the text on all the slides in a
presentation, make the change on the slide master. Another global
change you can make to a presentation is to modify the background color
with a color scheme, or with the Background option on the Format menu.
You'll get a chance to work with both of these options today.
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
In
this last lesson, we'll work with hyperlinks, including Action buttons.
PowerPoint's hyperlink feature allows you to create links in a
presentation that jump to a variety of locations. You really do have a
lot of choices as you can create links from text or objects to other
slides, other presentations, other documents, and to Web pages.
PowerPoint has its own version of hyperlinks called Action buttons.
Action buttons serve as hyperlinks to slides, other presentations,
other documents, or Web sites. You draw an action button on a slide
with your mouse then instruct PowerPoint where to link to. You can add
interest to your action buttons by changing their color and making them
three-dimensional. In addition, you can associate a sound or other
action that initiates when you click an action button.
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This
course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide
you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your
questions. The instructor for this course will be Kathy Van Pelt.
Kathy Van Pelt has been involved in education for many years, teaching
and assisting students with microcomputer application courses. Kathy
specializes in Microsoft Office applications, the Windows operating
system, and keyboarding. For the past 20 years, she has taught computer
courses at a community college, teaching both in the classroom and
online. Before that, she spent nine years teaching word processing and
business classes at a private business college. She loves being in the
ever-evolving educational field, and she's especially excited about the
flexibility that online learning offers students.
Student Reviews:
"Although I was unsure of online instruction because I have
never taken an online course before, I LOVED the online instruction! I
found myself counting the hours to when the next lesson would be
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even take it 'on the road' when I needed to. Thank you for offering
this option!"
"Easy to follow and understand. The amount of material
covered in each lesson allowed for its completion and understanding;
thorough without being overwhelming. I read the discussion area each
week; the instructor went out of her way to assist students with their
questions. The instructor's attention to content and student needs made
me feel very comfortable and assisted in my learning."
"Even though I had used PowerPoint before, I feel much more
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instructor's comments were very helpful in the discussion area and she
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course and the instructor."
"I already had a basic knowledge of PowerPoint 2003 but
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love to take an advanced course with this same instructor."
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The course was very well written and easy to follow. This was my first
online course and due to the experience, I will definitely take others.
Thank you."
"I had no idea what to expect with an online course and was
surprised that it was so much fun. I found that I was eager to download
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illustrations. Another plus was not having to drive through heavy
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"I have gained a great deal of insight in this class on
PowerPoint. I felt that Kathy has a complete grasp of the software; and
I felt that the class experience was well worth the time and effort. I
have PPT 2003 on my PC laptop at work; and PPT 2004 on my iMac at home,
and I am now able to understand both formats at a much higher level of
understanding. Kudos to You!"
"I have never had such informative answers given to me. You went all out. I'm smiling and hope you are too."
"I really like working on my own time, so the online course
is perfect for me. I wouldn't be able to always attend in a classroom
setting, I have a full time job with obligations in the evening. I'd
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clearly as it can be explained."
"I thought the course was great! The instructor was always
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"I thought the teacher was extremely clear and easy to
understand. She took us step by step through the process which made the
learning of PowerPoint that much easier."
"It was a great course...and I'm ready to "WOW" my supervisor with some great slides."
"It was a very useful course and I can now confidently say I
KNOW how to use PowerPoint. Kathy's teaching style was very easy to
understand, the lessons were just the right length and covered all the
basics that one needs to know about the program. Thank you, Kathy!"
"Kathy is an outstanding instructor, easy to understand and
presents the material in a structured manner for easy learning. I
really enjoyed the course and it will be very useful to me in the
future."
"Kathy Van Pelt is an exceptional instructor. I found her
teaching materials and methodology to be excellent. I would recommend
her highly to anyone who is interested in learning PowerPoint or any
other class. Thank you Kathy for your superb class and for trying so
hard to help us. I appreciate you! I would love to take another class
from you!"
"Kathy Van Pelt really made PowerPoint seem easy even if I
wasn't able to attend a classroom setting. Even when I got stuck, her
answers helped me go back and find the errors that I made and re-do the
exercise again until I got the correct result. I'm usually a "hands-on"
type of person but this class still worked for me. I want to personally
thank Kathy for her help!!"
"Kathy Van Pelt was an excellent instructor. The
supplementary materials expanded the basic course and will be great
reference materials for the future. This course was very worthwhile.
Thank you."
"Nicely done course. The style of the instructor made it seem as if she was right there helping me along. Very enjoyable!"
"Nicely done course. The style of the instructor made it seem as if she were right there helping me along. Very enjoyable!"
"Our company received grant monies for us to take this
course and I was very excited when it was offered. This is the first
online class I have taken and I was impressed with the way it was laid
out. I was able to understand the courses and complete the lessons
without having to struggle too much. I would definitely take another
online class. And the instructor wrote this in a manner that was also
very easy to interpret."
"PowerPoint is a powerful but complex presentation program.
Going through this course made it less intimidating and allowed me to
learn its many features in a systematic way. I now feel confident that
I can use PowerPoint to create effective presentations for the
computer, CD or Web."
"Thank you. I thought I knew a lot about PowerPoint and was
hoping for an intermediate class. I learned I had much to learn! I have
already applied new knowledge to actual presentations. I look forward
to taking additional on-line courses. I would enjoy a course from this
same instructor."
"The breezy style of the instructor made the course as much fun as it was worthwhile. I hope to take another course from her."
"The course gave me an excellent view of what PP can do and an resource to refer to in the future while I am using the program."
"The course was designed in such a manner that I didn't need
to go to the discussion area for any answers. I simply re-read the
lessons and followed the directions that were included and was able to
answer all my own questions with a reasonable amount of searching the
software program. I would, indeed, recommend this class to others and
enjoyed taking it myself and will, in the future, take additional
classes from this source, myself. Thank you."
"The instructor was amazingly helpful!!! I appreciated that
she personally answered all of the questions and not a teaching
assistant. I hope she has more classes (especially in MS)!"
"The lessons were well thought out and were very easy to
follow. I really enjoyed the course. The instructor was very helpful
and seemed to respond very quickly to posted questions. I would
absolutely take another online course and from this instructor. Thank
you!"
"The online experience was far better than a classroom
experience because I could enter at any time and go back to other
lessons as needed. It was well presented with no unnecessary input to
distract. The instructor is the best. I would recommend this course
(and instructor) to anyone wanting to learn PowerPoint."
"This class was great! Part way through the course, I had to
create two big presentations at work. One was a Year End 2005
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couldn't have done it without this class, as these were the first
Powerpoint Presentations ever in my life! The presentations at work
turned out awesome, all thanks to Kathy."
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having such well planned and clearly explained lessons. An excellent
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instructor also pointed out so many options that I didn't even know
existed. Thanks for offering this class."
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"This is an excellent course, and the instructor is
outstanding. I tried to learn PowerPoint with a book and just couldn't
get through the jargon. This course will get you where you want to go.
If you do the reading, create the presentation, and do the assignments,
you will be ready to make your own presentations and then some. I
intend eventually to take all the courses this instructor has to offer
online for MS Office. I think she's great for this type of class."
"This is an excellent course, and the instructor is
outstanding. I tried to learn PP with a book and just couldn't get
through the jargon. This course will get you where you want to go. If
you do the reading, create the presentation, and do the assignments,
you will be ready to make your own presentations and then some. I
intend eventually to take all the courses this instructor has to offer
online on MS Office. I think she's great for this type of class."
"This is one of the best courses I have ever taken online or
on-campus. I would suggest this course with this instructor to anyone
who has a desire to learn PowerPoint."
"This online course has fulfilled all the needs people have
for a convenient, fast and succinct class. I am extremely busy with 13
units which suddenly required me to make presentations with PowerPoint.
This was a crash course for me that worked out marvelously. I applaud
Kathy Van Pelt."
"This was a great class. I was a little apprehensive about
taking an online class. I was amazed at how well it was written and
organized."
"This was a great class!! This was my first on-line class.
It was a great experience, and I really learned a lot. Thank you for
putting together a great course."
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employees to seminars should try these online classes. You learn so
much more and the price is less than half. I will be taking some more
courses online."
"This was an excellent class. It was very well organized.
And I like the structure of it. I learned PowerPoint very well. I have
already created a PowerPoint presentation for my job."
"This was an excellent course and I enjoyed it. I liked the
instructor's teaching style -- she took us step-by-step through new
material, then later just told us to do a certain action we'd learned
earlier and I found I could! I enjoyed the humor and encouragement in
her lessons."
"This was an excellent introduction class to Power Point. I
found the instructions clear and easy to follow. I really enjoyed how
each lesson built on the previous lesson. I couldn't wait to see what
new techniques would be introduced to enhance the previous lesson.
After this class I am no longer intimidated by the Power Point program.
I just may have to take the next class in the series. Thanks to Kathy
Van Pelt - you did a great job with this class!"
"This was my first experience with an online course. I have
really enjoyed it and have learned a lot. I will be using my knowledge
to help my second graders create their own PowerPoint presentations!
Thanks for the easy to follow lessons!"
"Thorough presentation of course material. Just perfect for
either a beginning computer user or experienced user. I feel that with
a little further study, I will be qualified to take the MOUS exam and
become certified in this program."
"Very good course. Instructor was excellent. Before this
course, I knew Zero about PowerPoint. Now, I feel confident that I can
put together a very good presentation for work."
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