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Tasks
Task 1:
Personal Introductions and Introduction to our Teaching With
PowerPoint Yahoo Groups Homepage
a) Get a Yahoo ID because you must have one to
access the Teaching with PowerPoint group. Follow the
instructions at
Getting a YahooID. You may provide only minimal
information, and you can designate any of your current
e-mail addresses to receive mail from our YahooGroup (YG).
b) Note the settings when you register: You
have two choices for receiving e-mails from this group. They
are:
-- Individual e-mails
-- A daily digest
You can
find more information on what these options mean to you.
To set your options in our Yahoo Group to one of the above
choices by logging on to
our PPT group homepage. When you are there, click
on Edit My Membership. Under Message Delivery,
check either Individual Emails or Daily Digest.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the screen.
c) Introduce yourself to the group by posting a
message to the entire Teaching with PowerPoint group.
Go to
our group homepage. Click on Messages and
then Post Message. Tell us about your teaching
background (type of school, learners, areas you teach;
include any online experience), what you are hoping to gain
from this session, and any other personal or professional
information you'd like to share.
Optional: Upload your
photo to the Photos area of our YG or to Frappr.com.
Notice our group is set NOT to allow attachments to emails,
so don't send your photo as an attachment to a mess.
Task 2:
Teaching with PowerPoint User
Survey (skip if
already completed)
Please
go to our survey and complete the few questions in the
survey. This will help us to determine where extra help may
be needed to navigate Yahoo Groups and with PowerPoint.
Task 3:
Getting Started Information
(skip if already completed)
Read the
Getting Started information if you haven't already done
so. It gives an important, general overview of our
course.
Task 4: Netiquette
Please take time to read the
Guide to Netiquette and to take the short
Netiquette Quiz that follows as well as the "10
Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online". These are very
quick and will inform or confirm some good habits to
practice while participating in this or any online session.
Task 5: Becoming Familiar
with PowerPoint
a) Open the
PowerPoint 2002 Beginning
tutorial and scroll to page 2. Use the information from the
tutorial on opening and viewing the PowerPoint presentation
(on page 2).
b) Look at some
sample PPTs. Go to
our PPT group homepage. Click on Files on the
left. Then open up the folder titled
Sample PowerPoint Presentations. (Note:
Be sure you open the SAMPLE PowerPoint folder and
not the MODEL PowerPoint folder, which we will be using
later.)
c) Look at some of
the sample PowerPoints. Download and save one that you
like or find interesting to share with the group. What did
you like about and why did you like it (see Discussion
Question above)?
d) Look at the
model PPT presentation for this week. Go to
our PPT group homepage. Click on Files on
the left. Then open up the folder titled Model PowerPoint
Presentations. in this folder, open
Model PPT--Week 1 to see a basic PowerPoint about
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