Teaching Via Electronic Teaching Via Electronic Textbooks In Power PointTextbooks In Power Point

September 20, 2007

Irina Kuzminykh

We were given two ears but only one mouth.

This is because God knew that listening was twice as hard as talking.

The average college student spends about 14 hours per week in class listening (or perhaps I should say "hearing"--there is a difference!) to lectures.

Strategies to improve your listening skills:

Maintain eye contact with the instructor. Focus on content, not delivery. Have you ever counted the number of times a teacher clears his/her throat in a fifteen minute period? If so, you weren't focusing on content.Avoid emotional involvement. When you are too emotionally involved in listening, you tend to hear what you want to hear--not what is actually being said. Try to remain objective and open-minded.Avoid distractions. Don't let your mind wander or be distracted by the person shuffling papers near you. Stay active by asking mental questions.

If you want to create an electronic textbook you should know how to:

Insert text

Image

Sound or movie

Use animation effects to make it more attractive for students.

Animating text

Animating text means that each bulleted point of your slide appears on the screen one at a time.

How to animate items on a slideSelect the slide you wish

to animate. From the Slide Show menu, select Custom animation. To bring lines of text onto the slide one at a time, use an Entrance effect. Several are available. You may also select More effects to see even more.

Click on the Slide Show button to see this effect in action in your slide presentation.

Making changes to the animation effect

- After selecting an animation effect, a new icon is added to the Custom Animation pane. The icon includes a mouse, green star, and the item animated; text, chart, or image. At the right end of this icon you will see a down pointing triangle. Click on the triangle to display the menu of possible changes you can make to the animation effect.

Click on the name of the effect and you will see the list of effects available.

Inserting an image into a slide

There are a variety of ways to insert Clip Art into a slide:

Once you have made a selection you search clip art for a topic. Enter a word related to the type of picture you want. Single word searches work best.

Expanding the clip art search results list allows you to scan through a larger selection of image without scrolling.

To insert an image onto your PowerPoint slide, click one time on the image. You may continue to add images from the same search results window, or modify your search and look for other images.

Inserting an image other than clip art

Select the Insert menu from the top of the screen. Move the cursor down to Picture, and then over to From File. Navigate to find the sub-directory containing images. As an example, see the image:

In the above window I selected a file of images called pics. A thumbnail of available images is displayed. As with Clip Art, the picture can be inserted by double-clicking or by clicking on the Insert button.

Image?

Moving

Resizing the image

How to add sound?