One tool for developing presentations is Microsoft Power Point. I know you all have used this program but sometimes we get carried away with the information we put on our slides. Please take a few minutes and watch this slide show titled: Death by Power Point
This should help you as you begin your career as a professional students. It will also allow you to give helpful reminder to your teachers about their slides!
Here are a few other videos that will help you as you use power point for your current and future class projects.
Adding Basic Links to all office programs
Inserting a movie into your presentation
These are just a coupleof the wonderful tutorial that are out there. Please share with your fellow students when you find more. We will focus on the basics during this weeks class and move into adding links and videos during September.
We will move beyond power point this year and discover some new and innovative presentation tools. Here are a few I have found:
Prezi - Clear and Astonishing Presentations, live on the web
PhotoStory - Bring your digital photos to life with this free and easy to use program
Don't take it from me, check out Michael Hyatt's web site. He presents to major corporations all over the world.
Please read his 5 rules for better presentations.
Remember, you are the presentation!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Using Microsoft Excel
Students, here is the link to the group of tutorial videos that we watched today. Please use these short tutorial video's to support you as we master these skills that will help you throughout your scholastic and professional career.
Freeze Panes - These three tutorials show how to "lock"columns or rows (or both!) so that they are always visible on the screen. Freezing a row of column headings is especially useful when working with large data files since it's easy to get lost in the data and forget which column of data or student you're examining.
Sort - These three tutorials show how to sort your data by as many as three different columns. This is an especially useful skill for organizing and creating subsets from original data files.
Filter - These seven tutorials show how to use the Filter feature in Excel, which allows you to quickly see or create subsets of your original data file. Filtering is one of the most powerful tools in Excel.
Conditional Formatting - Imagine being able to quickly color code all of the data in one or more columns to highlight patterns and trends in your data file.
Pivot Tables and Charts - These ten tutorials show how to use what is perhaps the most powerful data analysis tool within Excel .
I hope you all find these tools helpful throughout the school year. Please tell me what you think. I thank dr. Richardson from UNCW, he introduced this site to me.
Freeze Panes - These three tutorials show how to "lock"columns or rows (or both!) so that they are always visible on the screen. Freezing a row of column headings is especially useful when working with large data files since it's easy to get lost in the data and forget which column of data or student you're examining.
Sort - These three tutorials show how to sort your data by as many as three different columns. This is an especially useful skill for organizing and creating subsets from original data files.
Filter - These seven tutorials show how to use the Filter feature in Excel, which allows you to quickly see or create subsets of your original data file. Filtering is one of the most powerful tools in Excel.
Conditional Formatting - Imagine being able to quickly color code all of the data in one or more columns to highlight patterns and trends in your data file.
Pivot Tables and Charts - These ten tutorials show how to use what is perhaps the most powerful data analysis tool within Excel .
I hope you all find these tools helpful throughout the school year. Please tell me what you think. I thank dr. Richardson from UNCW, he introduced this site to me.
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