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Lab 3 February 5, 2007 Things to Do • Attendance/Office Hours either by appointment or come during these times: M:5-6PM; T:4-5PM • Re: PowerPoint • Introduction to creating personal Web folder PowerPoint • So why bother learning about PowerPoint? • What strategies in teaching can you use PowerPoint for? Illustrate/reinforce difficult/complex ideas Show specific examples of general concepts Demonstrate the steps of a process Pose provocative questions Stimulate and captivate interest Common mistakes when creating PowerPoint slides: • Excessive use of flashy slide transitions and animation effects within the slides • Too much text on a slide • Difficult-to-read text • Only text on slides • Irrelevant multimedia • Reading the slide’s content to the audience Design Tips for Effective Use • • • • • • • The goal is improved learning Be conservative-keep it simple Use lots of white space Use contrast (dark on light or light on dark) Use large fonts-minimum of 18 or 24 points Do not write in all upper cases Plan on spending two minutes per slide Design Tips for Effective Use (Cont.) • Limit use of special effects (animations, sounds, transitions) • Background patterns make screens harder to read • Design from top to bottom right • Summarize sentences into bullets • One concept per slide • Avoid underlined text because it is used to indicate a hyperlink Don’t be seduced by! • • • • • • Animated graphics or text Inappropriate clip art Sound effects Screen transitions Wild color schemes Fancy fonts – for titles only Be Extra Careful with • Fonts • Backgrounds • Using movies and sound effects Helpful Websites • http://itdp.providence.edu/Training/PowerPoint _Resources.htm • http://office.microsoft.com/enus/templates/default.aspx?Application=OF&Ver=11 • http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/oet/network/ • http://classtech.cites.uiuc.edu/classtech/default.htm Accessing your Web folder 1 • Go to Windows (ONLY USE Internet Browser) • In menu bar Go to File then Open 1. Creating Web Folder • You will get a box asking for a web address. Use https://wwws.ed.uiuc.edu/students/(your NETID but without the brackets) • NOTE: Click on “open as a web folder” 2. Prompts for Access • Box prompt for your Username (NETID) and PW- This must be the active PW-if you don’t know it you can set it up at http://accounts.ad.uiuc.edu/ 3. Creating folders in your Webfolder • Creating a folder in your Webfolder: – File- click New folder-click and type to give your folder a name 4. Adding into your Web folder Web address gives you name of folder you are in- Record these as you will need them later. You can tell which folder you are currently in by looking at the end of the address above. 5. Adding into your Web folder 2 • You can also drag folders you have created elsewhere (e.g. on your flash drive) into your Webfolder • 100MB space is available in your web folder 6. Accessing your Web folder via Net • http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/(your NETID) -opens your web folder as a webpage • http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/(yourNETID)/eport.htm l -goes directly to the folder (called here eport) in your web folder • http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/(your NETID)/eport/resume.html-goes to the folder (called here eport) in your web folder and opens the resume page in the eport folder Next Time-Microsoft Front Page • Access Front Page via Start go to Productivity Software • Check it out! First page is your index (home page) • More about this next time! • References: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/oet/ search under handouts Y’all come back now, ya hear!!!