Valerie Biggs ©2004 Richmond Community Schools

IASBO Annual Meeting 2005

Presenting Data with Pizzazz!! PowerPoint, Excel & You

Introductions• Valerie Biggs• Staff Development Coordinator, RCS• Former Elementary Media Specialist

Richmond Community Schools300 Hub Etchison ParkwayRichmond, IN 47374765-973-4908valerieb@rcs.k12.in.us

You too can use the power of PowerPoint to make your presentations memorable!

Agenda• What’s new in 2002?• Templates & Slide Layouts• Headers & Footers• Graphics: Compressing & Rotating• Hyperlinks• Organizational Charts• Importing Excel Charts• Linked Objects• Animation• Sound• Printing Handouts• Publishing to the Web

Certain materials in the presentation are included in the Fair Use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law

Templates• From the Task Pane• From Microsoft.com

– http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

Headers & Footers

Hyperlinks

Organizational Charts

Superintendent

Assoc. Supt. Assoc. Supt.

Secondary Principals

Dir. Of FinanceDir. School Operations

Dir. Human Resource

Transportation Coordinator

Staff Dev.Coordinator

Food ServiceCoordinator

Asst. Technology Dir.

RCS Administration

Elementary Principals

Using the Chart Tool• Add your own data to the template

Adding Graphics

• Clipart

• Photos• Internet Google

Linking to Excel•March 2004 Rev-Exp Comp

Linking to PDF Documents

•Auto-archive

Linking to Word Documents•Smart Board Links

Animation

• Text

• Graphics

• Charts

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1st

Qtr

2nd

Qtr

3rd

Qtr

4th

Qtr

East

West

North

Sound• Adding sound to individual slides

• Playing a CD during your presentation

Movies

• From a file (writing) or Clip Organizer

• Pay attention to copyright!– Fair Use Guidelines

• from Palentine High School Media Center http://www.phs.d211.org/Media/copyright/

• from the Internet School Library Media Centerhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/copy.htm

Transitions

Publishing to the Web

No matter how good your presentation is, you won’t make an impression if your equipment doesn’t work!!

Aaron Bacall ©2003

Resources

• In and Out of the Classroom with PowerPoint 2002 http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/b/f/fbfcb9c6-94a2-47f5-9d54-a5d4a7ff1b6f/powerpoint.doc

• Microsoft Design Templates

• PowerPoint Tips from Ellen Finklestein http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/powerpoint_tip.html

• PowerPoint Tutorial from the Electric Teacher http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm

• Bacall, Aaron. Lighter Side of Technology in Education: Corwin Press, 2003.

• Fallon Worldwide for EDS: “Cat Herding Commercial”,1/30/2000. Purchased from adforum.com.

• Electric Teacher: PowerPoint Tutorial. Retrieved May 4, 2004 from http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm

• McCann Erickson for Microsoft: “Screen Commercial”,10/2000. Purchased from adforum.com.

• Microsoft in Education: In and Out of the Classroom, PowerPoint 2002. Downloaded May 4, 2004 from http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/b/f/fbfcb9c6-94a2-47f5-9d54-a5d4a7ff1b6f/powerpoint.doc

• Microsoft Design Templates. Downloaded May 3, 2004 from http://office.microsoft.com/templates/category.aspx?CategoryID=CT010161571033&CTT=4&Origin=ES790000301033

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