Synopses & Reviews
PowerPoint® For TeachersDynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects
Grades K-12
PowerPoint for Teachers is written especially for teachers like you, who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance your presentations, teach your students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.
No matter what your level of expertisejust getting started or seasoned proPowerPoint for Teachers gives you the step-by-step information youneed to introduce PowerPoint into your classroom and offers a great selectionof creative projects for your students.
PowerPoint for Teachers includes the dos and don'ts for best results and shows you how to use PowerPoint most effectively for classroom presentations
demonstrates how to use PowerPoint to create interactive applications including clickable maps, interactive quizzes, and gamesall through simple steps, with no programming knowledge needed offers tips on how best to teach PowerPoint to your students
contains suggestions for creating the most effective presentations and projects for different age groups.In addition, this handy resource includes sample customizable presentations and interactive games and activities that are available for free from the companion website.
PRAISE FOR POWERPOINT FOR TEACHERS
"As the complexity and sophistication of educational technology increase exponentially, it is easy to overlook the simple but still powerful teaching tools available to us all. Finkelstein and Samsonov do us a service in reminding us of just how useful and flexible PowerPoint can be as a powerful, creative, and user-friendly interactive teaching tool. With this book, any teacher interested in bringing technology into their teaching can do so, and to their students' benefit."
Dr. Robert Slater, professor, Educational Administration and Human Resources,Texas A&M University
"This how-to guide on the use of PowerPoint helps educators move into more visually oriented, interactive levels of teaching, where students are more likely to remember and use what we have taught them. I'd recommend every teacher add these simple technologies to their repertoire of teaching strategies."
Christopher Jones, chairman, department of education, Maharishi University of Management
Synopsis
From a best-selling PowerPoint author and educational technology guru comes this book— a comprehensive guide to using PowerPoint effectively in the classroom. The authors show not only how to teach PowerPoint to kids and create powerful educational presentations, they also teach K-12 instructors how to build fun interactive applications using PowerPoint, including interactive quizzes, clickable maps, and Jeopardy® -like games. Using these simple but powerful techniques, teachers can utilize the full potential of Microsoft PowerPoint to enhance student learning.
Synopsis
PowerPoint for Teachers is written for especially for teachers like you, who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance your presentations, teach your students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.
No matter what your level of expertise—just getting started or seasoned pro—PowerPoint for Teachers gives you the step-by-step information you need to introduce PowerPoint into your classroom and offers a great selection of creative projects for your students.
PowerPoint for Teachers includes the dos and don'ts for best results and
- shows you how to use PowerPoint most effectively for classroom presentations
- demonstrates how to use PowerPoint to create interactive applications—including clickable maps, interactive quizzes, and games—all through simple steps, with no programming knowledge needed
- offers tips on how best to teach PowerPoint to your students
- contains suggestions for creating the most effective presentations and projects for different age groups.
In addition, this handy resource includes sample customizable presentations and interactive games and activities that are available for free from the companion website.
About the Author
Ellen Finkelstein, is the best-selling author of numerous computer books, on AutoCAD and PowerPoint, including AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 Bible from Wiley. She is the author of How to Do Everything with PowerPoint; maintains a Web site at www.ellenfinkelstein.com of AutoCAD and PowerPoint tips, tutorials, and news; and publishes the monthly PowerPoint Tips Newsletter.
Pavel Samsonov, Ph.D., has been teaching PowerPoint in educational settings (to both students and teachers) since 1997. Currently he is anassistant professor at the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Samsonov teaches both graduate and undergraduate classes in the field of educational technology.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Is This Book for You?
Structure of the Book.
Conventions.
Icons.
Fonts, Symbols, and More.
Companion Web Site.
Enjoy!
PART O N E Why PowerPoint?
ONE Supporting All Aspects of Learning.
TWO Creating Your First Presentation.
THREE Multimedia and Learning with PowerPoint.
FOUR Understanding Best Practices.
PART TWO Creating Great Projects Using PowerPoint.
F I V E Interactive Reviews.
S I X Interactive Maps.
SEVEN Menu-Based Projects.
EIGHT Class Games.
NINE Graded Tests.
PART THREE Projects and Resources.
TEN PowerPoint Projects for Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 1.
ELEVEN PowerPoint Projects for Grades 2 to 5.
TWELVE PowerPoint Projects for Grades 6 to 12.
T H I RTEEN Online Resources for Teachers Using PowerPoint.
PART FOUR Teaching PowerPoint to Students.
FOURTEEN Teaching PowerPoint in Elementary School.
F I F T E E N Teaching PowerPoint in Middle and High School.
S I X T E E N Teaching and Using PowerPoint at the College Level.
APPENDIX A Research on Multimedia and Learning.
A P P E N D I X B What’s on the Companion Web Site.
INDEX.