michigan informatics

Introduction

Microsoft PowerPoint is a software tool used to prepare professional-looking presentations incorporating bulleted lists, charts, tables, graphics, clip art, and multimedia content. Within a single file, PowerPoint can create audience handouts, outlines, speaker notes, 35mm slide presentations, and overhead transparencies. The unique advantage of PowerPoint is the ability to use a variety of special effects (e.g. color, animation, slide transitions) and to facilitate access to external information (e.g. spreadsheet data, web sites, video files).

Microsoft PowerPoint is an extremely effective presentation tool, yet it is also fairly simple to use. This tutorial will step you through the basics of creating a PowerPoint presentation while providing you with guidance on how to employ good design techniques and an engaging presentation style.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to give an effective PowerPoint presentation
• Create a basic PowerPoint presentation
• Insert images into a presentation
• Apply Microsoft design templates
• Use the Slide Master to create a consistent, customized slide design
• Appropriately animate slide transitions
• Appropriately animate text transitions

Supported Competencies

Reference: Developed by The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice.

• Analytic/Assessment Skills
  • Applies data collection processes, information technology applications, and computer systems storage/retrieval strategies
• Communication Skills
  • Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences