Productivity Suite

Q1 Skills: Slideshow Skills Microsoft PowerPoint Slides

11. Powerful Presentations

Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint Menus

BASIC Microsoft PowerPoint  Skills Activity

Check with your teacher about where to save your work (Activity Sheet and Basic Slideshow), and when they are due.

STEPS:

1. Download or make a copy of this 11.Q1 Basic Microsoft PowerPoint Skills Activity document.

2. Complete each step by checking it off as you complete it. You will create a Microsoft PowerPoint slide deck that demonstrates your Basic skills.

3. This is an example of a completed basic Microsoft Slide skills deck titled Bella.mp4In the box below, are two step-by-step videos demonstrating how it was created.

ADVANCED Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Skills Activity

Check with your teacher about where to save your work and when it is due.

Skills covered: WordArt, spell check, arranging objects, voice typing, recording audio, inserting a video, hyperlinking between slides, morphing two slides, inserting timeline diagrams, saving and sharing, and inserting pictures. 

STEPS:

1. Activity: Select this linked file that will open as a Google Drive file,  11.Q1 Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Student Slide Skills Activity.pptx.

  • Use the File menu and select Download as a Microsoft PowerPoint file. 
  • Be sure to notice where it downloaded, and open it.
  • Follow the directions on each slide to complete the Advanced Slide Skills Activity.

2. Video tutorials: A few of the speaker notes include links to videos. Use them as needed to complete this activity. 

3. On Completion: Provide a shared link to your Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Skills Activity with commenting rights for your teacher when you are done.

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11.Q1 PowerPoint Slides Teacher Guide

MITECS  Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
a. Articulate and set personal learning goals, developing strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes
b. Build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process
c. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies

6. Creative Communicator
a. Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication
c. Communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations
d. Publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for a variety of audiences

7. Global Collaborator
b. With guidance from an educator, students use technology tools to work with friends and with people outside their neighborhood, city and beyond
c. Contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal