Presentation Class Descriptions

PowerPoint Basics

PowerPoint is an easy-to-use presentation program. This workshop includes principles of effective presentations, using slide layouts, customizing templates, and importing graphics and modifying them with the Picture toolbar.

Course Outline

• Principles of effective presentations
• Creating basic presentations
• Importing Microsoft Clip Art
• Modifying master slides
• Effective use of type
• Saving templates
• Creating & modifying charts
• Creating graphics with the draw tools
• Modifying imported object oriented graphics
• Importing & modifying bit mapped graphics
• Sequences & custom animation
• Printing features

PowerPoint Graphics and Sequences

This workshop covers using the drawing tools to create graphics and develop sequences for more effective presentation. The same tools can be used to customize certain types of clip art (object-oriented graphics) and to use PowerPoint as a general purpose graphics program.

Course Outline

• Creating & modifying charts
• Creating graphics with the draw tools
• Modifying imported object oriented graphics
• Importing &modifying bit mapped graphics
• sequences & custom animation
• Custom animation on the master slide & title master
• Additional sequencing tricks

PowerPoint Interactivity

Intended for users familiar with the basics of PowerPoint. This workshop covers the custom animation feature, hyperlinking buttons and Web publishing functions of PowerPoint. Conducted by Nick Dvoracek.

Course Outline

• Review of the drawing functions
• Custom animation of graphics
• Custom animation of charts
• Additional sequencing tricks
• Custom animation on the master slide & title master
• Buttons and hyperlinks
• Save as play-only files
• Export for Web

Breeze Live and Breeze Presentations

Breeze Presentations is intended for putting narrated PowerPoint presentations on the web. Sound is recorded directly into the Breeze plug-in. Any animations or timings are preserved. Sound and timings can be edited. The presentation is converted to a Flash file that will play back on any recent browser on Macintosh or Windows. File sizes are about a third of the original narrated PowerPoint. It's by far the most elegant and user friendly application for doing this that I've seen (except that it only works with PowerPoint on Windows). For a short sample see http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/flash/index.html

Breeze Live is intended for web-based meetings. It is similar to WebEx or Placeware. Presenter video and audio (which can be rotated to any participant), desktop sharing, chat, whiteboard, and polling are available. Any browser, on Mac or Windows, can be used for presenting or participating. (presenter video only works on Windows)

Accounts are available to faculty and staff. There is no cost to the user.

For more information on Macromedia Breeze see http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/? promoid=home_prod_breeze_101503