This document provides an overview of the key elements in the practice power point presentations for this course. It explains that important terms will be highlighted in bold, underlined green text. Various symbols are used throughout the presentations to flag different items, such as questions/problems, journal assignments, important concepts, notes pages, links to pencasts and videos. The document provides details on what each symbol indicates and where additional materials can be accessed.

1. Practice power point
Introductory Module

2. Highlighting
When an important term or concept is presented in
one of the power point presentations, it will be in
bold, underlined, green text.
Like this
For instance, blogs are used to share information
with the whole class and journals allow each of
you to communicate only with the instructors.
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3. Key to symbols
Throughout your power points, you will encounter
the following symbols:
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4. Important!
There are a few concepts that will be EXTRA
important for you to remember as the course
proceeds.
These concepts will be accompanied by the
megaphone symbol.
In presentation mode, there is a sound associated
with the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.
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5. Journal assignments
At each point within a power point at which it would
be appropriate to answer one of your Journal
questions, you will see the clipboard and pad
symbol.
In presentation mode, there is a sound associated
with the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.
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6. Questions/problems
Throughout the power points we will provide
questions or problems for you to work out on your
own. The answer or worked-out problem will be on
the notes section of the same slide.
These will be flagged with the question mark icon.
In presentation mode, there is a sound associated
with the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.
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7. Notes page
Some slides will have information on the associated
Notes page. The musical notes icon will indicate you
should check the Notes.
The Notes can be accessed by
clicking on “Normal” in the View menu to reveal the notes
below each slide, or
clicking on “Notes Page” in the View menu to see only the
slide and its notes.
We will also provide an MS Word document with the
text of all notes, listed by slide number, for those of you
who can only view power point documents in slide
show mode.
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8. Pencasts
Whenever there is a link to a pencast tutorial for the
material on a slide, you will see the SmartPen icon.
Practice pencast
For instruction on accessing, viewing, and manipulating
these pencasts, click on the “Help with TECHNOLOGY”
course menu button, then click on “Course-Specific
Help.”
Scroll down to “LiveScribe.”
Download Pencast-how-to.pptx and view the presentation.
Links to Pencasts will also be available in the “Power
Point and Related Materials” folder for each module.
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9. Videos
There will be some videos Practice video—Hover your
cursor over the image and
(and possibly some click on the triangle.
animations) related to the
power point material.
Their availability will be
indicated by the video icon
and a link for the video itself.
Since variations in systems
and browser set-ups can
affect your ability to view
certain videos, we will also
include links to the videos in
the “Power Point and Related
Materials” folder for each
module.
There IS a brief drop-out of sound at about
43 seconds—it’s not your computer!
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