Product Description

PowerPoint for Teachers is written for especially for teachers like you, who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance your presentations, teach your students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.

No matter what your level of expertise--just getting started or seasoned pro--PowerPoint for Teachers gives you the step-by-step information you need to introduce PowerPoint into your classroom and offers a great selection of creative projects for your students.

PowerPoint for Teachers includes the dos and don'ts for best results and

* shows you how to use PowerPoint most effectively for classroom presentations

* demonstrates how to use PowerPoint to create interactive applications--including clickable maps, interactive quizzes, and games--all through simple steps, with no programming knowledge needed

* offers tips on how best to teach PowerPoint to your students

* contains suggestions for creating the most effective presentations and projects for different age groups.

In addition, this handy resource includes sample customizable presentations and interactive games and activities that are available for free from the companion website.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117940 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780787997175
• Condition: NEW
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From the Back Cover
PowerPoint(r) For TeachersDynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects Grades K-12

PowerPoint for Teachers is written especially for teachers like you, who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance your presentations, teach your students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.

No matter what your level of expertise--just getting started or seasoned pro--PowerPoint for Teachers gives you the step-by-step information youneed to introduce PowerPoint into your classroom and offers a great selectionof creative projects for your students.

PowerPoint for Teachers includes the dos and don'ts for best results and shows you how to use PowerPoint most effectively for classroom presentations

demonstrates how to use PowerPoint to create interactive applications-- including clickable maps, interactive quizzes, and games--all through simple steps, with no programming knowledge needed offers tips on how best to teach PowerPoint to your students

contains suggestions for creating the most effective presentations and projects for different age groups.In addition, this handy resource includes sample customizable presentations and interactive games and activities that are available for free from the companion website.

PRAISE FOR POWERPOINT FOR TEACHERS

"As the complexity and sophistication of educational technology increase exponentially, it is easy to overlook the simple but still powerful teaching tools available to us all. Finkelstein and Samsonov do us a service in reminding us of just how useful and flexible PowerPoint can be as a powerful, creative, and user-friendly interactive teaching tool. With this book, any teacher interested in bringing technology into their teaching can do so, and to their students' benefit."

--Dr. Robert Slater, professor, Educational Administration and Human Resources,Texas A&M University

"This how-to guide on the use of PowerPoint helps educators move into more visually oriented, interactive levels of teaching, where students are more likely to remember and use what we have taught them. I'd recommend every teacher add these simple technologies to their repertoire of teaching strategies."

--Christopher Jones, chairman, department of education, Maharishi University of Management

About the Author
Ellen Finkelstein, is the best-selling author of numerous computer books, on AutoCAD and PowerPoint, including AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 Bible from Wiley.Pavel Samsonov, Ph.D., has been teaching PowerPoint in educational settings (to both students and teachers) since 1997. Currently he is anassistant professor at the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Samsonov teaches both graduate and undergraduate classes in the field of educational technology.

Customer Reviews

Powerpoint for Teachers book review
I found this book to be a very helpful reference tool. I work in two elementary schools as a Literacy Coach. My days consist of presenting reading ideas in faculty meetings, teaching reading objectives and reviewing test taking strategies in grades 3-5. I was already familiar with PowerPoint basics. I have put together several presentations for faculty meetings using a standard PowerPoint format. This book refreshed my memory on how to enhance my presentations by adding video clips, sound, etc... It also showed me step by step how to create PowerPoints to use with students in the classroom for building background knowledge, test reviews, etc... In order to get the attention of today's students, technology is a must. This book helps the teacher stay current.

Practical and Fun Book
I am a 10-12 educator with experience in PowerPoint and computers, so it seemed like it was time to expand my ideas and my experience. This book did that. I skipped the chapters for the "newbies" but noticed that the presentation was easy to follow; I appreciated this when I got into the programing part!

I went right to linked slides--making slides with answer buttons that give you a "well done" or "do over" slide. I made a fun presentation on the primary colors of light for my Desktop Publishing class. The students had to pick the primary and secondary colors, read explanations, and see examples. They told me that they liked it. One boy (a WOW gamer) commented, "I get to guess the colors! Cool!" They all liked the independence it gave them--being able to go through the presentation on their own.

My next project was the graded test. Ms. Finkelstein says to give this chapter a generous amount of time; I support that view. However, I liked this part the best. It was a very one-thing-at-a-time explanation. Thank goodness. Lots of titles and subtitles for easy back and forth reading. So I made my multiple choice test on American Transcendentalism! The students liked that, too.

The authors have good chapters on interactive presentations and non-linear organization; these ideas transfer to all lesson-planning. My next dive will be into menu-based projects. I look forward to that!