This document provides a checklist for beginner and advanced PowerPoint skills. For beginners, it includes how to add text, clip art, word art, slide transitions, and animations. For advanced skills, it suggests adding movies, charts, hyperlinks, non-linear presentations, feedback, and interactive elements like quizzes. It also assigns the creation of a 10+ slide PowerPoint lesson plan with various multimedia elements and interactive features for a March 17th deadline.

1. March 3, 2011
PowerPoint Skill
Creating Mental Models
Checklist
Beginner:
 Background: layout,
Why use PowerPoint – research on effectiveness
-Consider possible use, application, UDL template, slide color
-Explain the PowerPoint behind the scenes using a Whiteboard scheme
 Text with different
Demo of Action Settings and Buttons,
colors and fonts
Student reports– Rainforest & On the Job
 Large font
Cause & Effect – Fireworks
 Clip art and drawings
Coloring Books – Hats & Captain Underpants with modifications –
Using animation- Learning Colors by Beth color, size, cropped
Creating a quick slide show from picture file – My cat  Word Art
Mental Models & Concepts – Zoo story, examples/not  View & arrange:
Interactive Story – Drakes Day of Decisions by Dana or Frog Using Slide Master
Self-checking quizzes – Getting dressed by Jennifer  Photo and image from
Adding Sounds – My House by Greg the web
Integration with movies - Add Effects (.mov vs. .mpg)  Slide Transitions
PowerPoin  Animations
 Sounds
t as Assistive Tech – talking story book pdf file Advanced:
 Movies
Saving PowerPoint and putting it on Slideshare, Google Docs
 Animation
Adding actual ppt to the wiki
 Charts
 Action Buttons
Resources:
 Hyperlinks
Game format for review – Jeopardy, Millionaire, Squares.
 Non-linear presentation
http://webtoolboxes.wikispaces.com/powerpoint
 Feedback and Linking
Inpics http://inpics.net
 Vox Proxy
NO GAMES FOR YOUR LESSON/Skill 6
 Pack & Go
Assignments Due - March 17
Work on Project Finish all assignments due to date, write lessons, include UDL
Create other lessons – remember you have three FREE choice tech lessons in your unit.
Review concepts in Teaching Every Student.
Skill 5: Lesson plan with Word processing Develop an activity following the example provided
in class, using a word processor. Develop the activity so that the students use features of the
word processor AND practice a skill related to your unit. The activity plan should include
follow the barebones lesson plan on opposites found at:
http://rollercoasterlessons.wikispaces.com/opposites
Skill 6: Create Powerpoint and Lesson plan – as a check up send me the whole lesson plan
Both will be labeled with your name and skill6 because they are different kinds of documents.
DO NOT DO SUBMIT A JEOPARDY OR OTHER GAME from a template.
Include approximately at least 10 pages in PowerPoint
Include some element of example, not examples for teaching – you can have two PowerPoints
Include non-linear elements: quiz with checking, coloring activity, cause/effect, interactive
story
a. background- with different schemes
b. word art, graphics, buttons, and text effects AND at least one sound
d. transition effects & build animations
e. a “hot-link” to an web site

2. f. action buttons for non-linear access
g. digital images