Microsoft_Office

=Microsoft Office=

PowerPoint
Dodging Bullets in Presentations - tips on paring your presentation down to its simplest elements - few/no words and strong images media type="custom" key="4979039" How to Create an Awesome PowerPoint Presentation - Short video utilizing Obama's speech and how it would have looked in a typical boring, bulleted presentation w/ cheesy clip art. LearnFree PowerPoint 2007 - Online handout (printable) covering the basics of PowerPoint. Includes videos.


 * Alternate Ways of Using PowerPoint (or other presentation tools)**
 * Scan page from your **textbook** and annotate over with pen tools (great with SmartBoard)
 * Introduce **vocabulary**, pairing large images and the target word
 * Create cloze-type sentences/paragraphs


 * Tips**
 * Use readable fonts - larger size, basic font, contrasting color from background (i.e. light text on dark background)
 * LIMIT the number of words per slide. PowerPoint is not a teleprompter!
 * Clear (not blurry, pixely)
 * Be sure to resize properly, using corner handles (not squished)
 * Should be purposeful
 * Use copyright-free images and cite resources
 * Be concise (but don't feel like you have to keep all info on one topic on a slide)
 * Carefully choose your headers/titles
 * Spell/grammar check!
 * More Do's and Dont's of Presentations [[file:edutechintegration.com-Dos_and_Donts_of_PowerPoint-1343244.pdf]]
 * Presentation skills basics & tips and a YouTube video demonstrating how to take a bulleted slide and make it into one point per slide.

Other Presentation Tools

 * Google Docs Presentation
 * Prezi (zoom features)
 * Slide Rocket (slide-based)
 * Glogster (multimedia poster) - more info
 * Solicit audience participation using a back channel chat such as Today's Meet or Typewith.me
 * Skype with an expert, other schools, etc. Can do follow-up discussions using WallWisher.
 * Have an animation tool present your lecture - i.e. GoAnimate or XtraNormal
 * See more ideas on 10 Alternatives to PowerPoint
 * Present.me - Record a narration of an uploaded PPT file online and have your presentation remotely delivered.

=Excel= - 4-page handout by Melissa covering basics such as calculations & simple functions, fill-down, creating graphs & charts, and sorting/filtering. LearnFree.org Excel 2007 - Online handout (printable) covering the basics and some intermediate. Includes videos. - 22 page handout on Excel. - Thorough 26 pg handout on the basic level of Excel. Lots of screenshots. Spreadsheets in the Classroom - lesson ideas for elementary, MS, HS, tutorials on Excel spreadsheets Dr. Alice Christie's Using Spreadsheets in the K-12 Classroom - interactive data & ideas, examples, lessons, and downloadable files

Word
LearnFree Word 2007 - Online handout (printable) covering Microsoft Word. Includes videos. Inserting video into Microsoft Word 2007 - YouTube Video - This page includes a slide show, examples and ideas, and resource links for Google Docs, Presentation, Forms.
 * Google Docs** is an excellent alternative - free, online, collaborative