Computer Applications

Welcome to tutorials in Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Powerpoint is used quite extensively in the schools to expose students to interesting and fun ways to use technology in their classrooms. In addition to creating attractive and interesting linear presentations, you can teach students to set up presentations in a non-linear fashion.

Non Linear Powerpoint Lesson This lesson gives students an opportunity to create fun and interactive presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. This particular lessons shows how you can set up an activity for children to click on a letter and it will take them to a slide that has an animal that begins with that letter. You can click on a sound icon and hear what sound the animal makes. A creative teacher or student can apply this lesson to so many different topics and activities.

Inserting Sound into Presentations This lesson walks the student through a lesson on the incorporation of sound into presentations. It has step by step procedures that will show students how to set up the timings so that the music carries through until the end of the presentation. The lessons shows the students how to hide the icon in order to make the presentation more professional as the sound automatically plays when the presentation is loaded.