The ExpertRating Online Microsoft PowerPoint Course (2003-Introduction) (leading to ExpertRating Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Skills Certification).
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値l 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値l 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値l even be able to save your presentations in HTML so they can be shared with others over the Web.
You値l 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値l also take you on many field trips to useful Web sites that will help broaden your knowledge of PowerPoint.
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
About the
ExpertRating Online Microsoft PowerPoint Course (2003-Introduction)
instructor :
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.
Microsoft
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 users will be supported in the discussion area.
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Coverage (6 weeks program)
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. The first lesson
will look at the menus and the many toolbars you
have at your disposal with PowerPoint 2003. It will
also look at other basics, including working with
different views, task panes, and tabs.
Friday - Lesson 02
Now that you know the
basics of PowerPoint, you can create a presentation
from scratch. This lesson will 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. It will discuss the
two things you need to do to save a file so you know
where to find it later. Then this lesson will go
over different ways to put on a slide show. This
lesson will be covering a lot of important stuff.
Week Two
Wednesday - Lesson 03
You'll find that
there's usually more than one way to perform a task.
This lesson will show you multiple ways to open a
presentation. Then, it will 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 this
lesson will 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. In this lesson you'll also learn how to
create and edit table slides and work with the
Tables and Borders toolbar.
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. It痴 a certainty that 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.
Week Three
Wednesday - Lesson 05-
This lesson will
switch gears and work with images instead of text.
It will 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. This lesson will 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.
Friday - Lesson 06
Hope you like to
draw, because that's what will be done 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,
this lesson will show you how you can group them
into one object.
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 this lesson will 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.
Friday - Lesson 08
The topic of this
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. You'll find the
Animation Schemes feature fun and easy to use.
Week Five
Wednesday - Lesson 09
Another animation
feature, Custom Animation, is on the agenda for
this day. 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. This lesson
will 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.
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 this lesson will
explore is the Package for CD command on
PowerPoint's File menu. This is a new feature in
PowerPoint 2003 and 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.
Week Six
Wednesday - Lesson 11
This lesson will
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.
Friday - Lesson 12
The last lesson will
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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About the
ExpertRating Online Microsoft PowerPoint Course (2003-Introduction)
instructor :
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.
"This course
was great. I have already put my new skills to use by creating three
presentations for my boss. He is thrilled to now have presentations
of great quality. Thanks!"
"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."
