The ability to communicate ideas with clarity and precision is imperative for instructors. For this reason, Microsoft PowerPoint has become an important classroom tool. You may have already used PowerPoint to highlight the main points of a class lecture, or you may have used it to present research findings or articles at conferences.
Now, with Office PowerPoint 2003, you will find even more options to communicate and deliver your ideas and presentations to a variety of audiences. Download the tutorial and its supporting files to learn how to enhance multimedia presentations and create an archive of class lectures on CD.
Express your ideas with greater clarity and creativity. For example, you can now create custom animations in PowerPoint 2003 to illustrate dynamic processes or to focus your audience's attention on specific points that you want to address.
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Share information and collaborate with colleagues. In addition to the multiple options that you have available to you for sharing presentations over the Web, you can also use the new Shared Workspace feature in PowerPoint 2003 to save your presentation to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site. This functionality enables you or your students to collaborate with others on a presentation. The feature also streamlines the review process and facilitates clear communication among people on a team.
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Broaden your reach. You have more choices for delivering content with PowerPoint 2003.
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The new Package for CD feature makes it easy to burn your presentation to a CD so that you can provide an archive of course lectures at the library or share your conference presentation with colleagues.
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You can also use Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2003 to create, organize, and publish multimedia presentations that you can view in a Web browser.
Getting started
Become familiar with how to access Microsoft Office online and with the system requirements for Office PowerPoint.
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Using graphics and animation Move beyond merely summarizing your information. Learn how to focus students' attention on your presentations by adding illustrations, graphs, animation, and recorded narration.
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Collaborating on presentations Learn how to create and use shared document workspace so that teams can create group presentations.
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Share your presentation Share your presentation with a variety of audiences by saving it as a Web page or burning it to a CD.
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Use Producer for multimedia presentations Enhance your presentations using Producer to add video clips, and then editing the presentation.
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Use Information Rights Management Learn how to protect the intellectual property of your presentations by setting permission for the use of your electronic documents.
