Create mini lessons with Microsoft Office PowerPoint
Updated: March 6, 2007
How-to article
Do you want to help your students understand, retain, and review basic or difficult material in any subject?
Start each class period with a mini lesson and a study guide created from a reusable series of slides. You can create a series of mini lessons that can be reused from year to year and uploaded to a school server or a class Web site as study guides for your students.
Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint to create a reusable and multi-use mini lesson. Here's how:
Create a reusable and multi-use mini lesson
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Start PowerPoint, and then create your slide show mini lesson.
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Save your mini lesson as a PowerPoint presentation so that you can easily make changes in the future. This will enable you to update the content from year to year by hiding or adding slides.
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When you finish a week of lessons or a unit, you can save the slide show as a PowerPoint presentation and as a Web page. If you save it as a Web page, you can place it on the school server or on your Web site so that students and parents can access the information. This is also a great way to share information with other teachers on your team. To save your mini lesson as a Web page, click File, and then click Save As. In the Save as type box, click the drop-down arrow, and then click Web Page.
Note: If you have Word documents or Web sites that you want students to access along with the mini lesson, be sure to save them in the same folder as the PowerPoint file, and then link to them from the corresponding mini lesson slide.
