Power Point

Microsoft's PowerPoint has four excellent uses for the classroom teacher. This page will introduce you to each of them and provide examples which you may use as templates to use in your own classroom.

1. Certificates
2. Class Webpage
3. Classroom presentations
4. Self guided tutorials or projects

Certificates

You can use the auto content wizard to create certificates for your class and use the clip art to spice them up! Look at these certificates that were created as models in MS Power Point, then use Power Point to create one of your own and save it to your disk.

| Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 |

Class Web Page

Power Point includes a template for a group web site. I have taken this format and customized it into a Class Web Site format. Download these files, unzip* them and customize them for your own classroom web site.

| class web template |

Classroom Presentations

Use Power Point to highlight your classroom presentations and teach excellent note-taking skills in the process. Do this interactive tutorial to become more familiar with the program before you begin.

Self Guided Tutorials

You can custom make your own tutorials for your students to use in the classroom or at home. Use the action buttons to create self-guided tutorials for your students. This page shows you how to use action buttons - look under the multimedia section. It's easy and a good way for a student to get extra help or catch up on a missed lesson.

Now that you have gone through this page, make a simple teaching tool with PowerPoint and print it out. Use the tutorials on the links page if you need help.

* If you need a program to zip and unzip your files, Aladdin Stuffit Expander is free and a good one. One good place to get it is to download it from Tucows http://www.tucows.com.