PowerPoint+Skills

PowerPoint Skills __Time needed__: One 90 minute Project block

__Key Idea__: Developing skills in working with PowerPoint

__Key Vocabulary__: NA

__Procedure__: The teacher will have students develop a brief, sample PowerPoint presentation to work on their skills. Students will write a presentation based around discussing the Buffalo Community Center Collaborative and one of the specific community centers listed.

The teacher will begin by having students go to the following website: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm Students should create a shortcut to this site in their Thaw Space as a resource for further usage.

Next, the teacher will explain to the class that they will be working on a brief sample PowerPoint to prepare for their final tasks. The teacher will direct students to the following website: http://www.buffalocollaborative.org/BCCCHom.asp

This will be the source material for the sample PowerPoint presentations. The teacher will then demonstrate to students how to open a new presentation and choose a template, with directions available here: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/template_ppxp.htm

Students will use Buffalo Community Center Collaborative as their title and their own name as the subheading.

The students will then create a new outline slide entitled “About the BCCC” in which they will summarize the information located here: http://www.buffalocollaborative.org/AboutUs.asp This should be no longer than 2 to 3 sentences. The teacher will then direct them how to animate the text, available here: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/building_ppxp.htm Students will choose and apply their own to their slide.

The teacher will then demonstrate how to transition between two slides. Directions are available here: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/transitions_ppxp.htm Students will choose and apply their own.

The teacher will then have students create a slide with a graphic with the title “Donations”. How to do this is available here: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/image_ppxp.htm

The information on the slide should be a brief summary on how to donate. The source material for the slide is located here: http://www.buffalocollaborative.org/Donations.asp Students should choose a graphic that thematically fits with the information on the page.

The teacher will then direct the students to pick one of the other Community Centers listed on the BCCC site and create three more slides about it. In these three slides, students must describe the history or mission/goal of the center, what services they provide and where the center is located (Note: not all centers listed have complete information, so students should either chose another center or check for addition information online). These three slides must have a transition between at least two of them, at least 1 graphic slide, and at least 1 example of animated text.