• easily organize, powerfully illustrate, and deliver course materials in a dynamic manner.
• Whether delivering your materials in the classroom using transparencies and the ever popular and reliable overhead projector, the multimedia unit computer, or over the Internet, you'll have the tools you need to communicate with impact.
• PowerPoint helps you create outlines, slides, handouts, instructor notes, presentations, even black and white or color transparencies for the overhead projector.
• The program includes built-in templates to help you create your own design.

Let the SAC Instructional Innovation Center (see Media Unit page) show you the many ways to incorporate PowerPoint slides in your course materials. The center offers regularly scheduled PowerPoint courses.

PowerPoint features include:

• on screen "buttons" allow you to move to other slides, not necessarily in linear order
• create hyperlinks to specific web pages illustrating key points and expanding perspectives
• add scanned and digitized photographs, images, clip art, and even movies
• SAC multimedia carts provide Internet access.

Using PowerPoint created slides has many advantages for the instructors and students. For Instructors:

• A large stack of overhead transparencies may be reduced to a single disk.
• Material is quickly edited, revised, and updated, rather than having to make a new transparency
• PowerPoint provides several selections of an outline version suitable for handout
• Instructor familiarity with the Multi-media Unit insures the material may be presented to the class in a timely manner.
• You can generally present 4-6 slides in 10 to 15 minutes, presentation time varies with content and the amount of text

Advantages for students are

• a colorful and pleasing presentation
• more legible than handwriting
• material presented "in class" rather than in the lab
• Give students a specific task while you set up and prepare to show the program.

PowerPoint also enables you to create your own transparencies—if you prefer the Overhead to using the Multimedia Unit—with scanned and digitized photographs, cartoons or other materials. Access to a color printer using special color compatible transparency masters (currently cost about $22 a package, $1-- each plus printing cost at a commercial site, which may be necessary depending on the availability of color printers) means you can improve a favorite lecture enhancer without having to rely on setting up the Multimedia Unit daily. See Images page.

For an example of a PowerPoint presentation converted to html and linked on a course Web site view Carol A. Keller's HIST1301 US History Part I slides for Unit III: The Republic Transformed.

Please send any questions to Carol A. Keller, email, ckeller@accd.edu
Last updated April, 2000

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