1. How can I learn to use PowerPoint,
Internet, video, web-based course, etc. in my classroom?
An excellent place to start is in the CITI. The
CITI sponsors a series of workshops for UW—Eau Claire faculty
and staff each semester. Topics range from introductory computer
skills and word processing to web publishing to scanning and manipulating
images. For more information check out the CITI
website; or the ITM Online Help collection.
2. How can I learn
to use the technology in my classroom?
Just contact TLTDC at 836-2651; they'd be happy
to teach you.
3. What do I need
to be aware of when using PowerPoint to create 35 mm slides?
You can create 35 millimeter (mm) slides by using
a desktop film recorder or by creating a file for a service bureau.
A service bureau can transform your electronic slides into 35
mm slides. A helpful online
article lists several items to keep in mind when you create
a presentation that you intend to turn into 35 mm slides.
4. How do I make
my PowerPoint presentations available to my students before or after
I use them in the classroom?
There are several ways to make your PowerPoint presentations
available to your students. First, you can create a link to the
PowerPoint presentations from a page at your curricular website.
Second, you could save the PowerPoint presentation as a Web document
and make it available through your curricular site. Third, you
can copy the PowerPoint presentation to your department’s
space on DeptDir (the W:\ drive). The first and third options
require that your students have PowerPoint on the machine they
are using to view the file. You could also make the PowerPoint
file available as a .pdf file for viewing using Acrobat
Reader, a free, downloadable product from Adobe, Inc.
5. How can I use
sound or video in my PowerPoint presentations?
After you have learned the basics of PowerPoint
2000, you can add a little zip to your presentation. To enhance
the effectiveness of your presentation try adding sounds, music,
videos, and narration. Having some of these effects in your presentation
can capture and focus the audience's attention and enhance the
overall effectiveness. For more information go to the ITM
(Information Technology Management) website. Contact Donna
Raleigh (836-5162, draleigh@uwec.edu)
or Gene Leisz (836-6004, leiszgj@uwec.edu)
for help.
6. What do I need
to know or do to make use of streaming audio or video?
Because the campus is still in a testing mode with
Microsoft's Media Services, we are encouraging faculty who have
small audio and video clips they want streamed to bring them to
the Teaching and Learning Technology Development Center front
desk in Schofield 30 or to Lillian Hillis in CNS so that we can
continue to refine the streaming services. Both audio and video
clips can be digitized and streamed from the campus streaming
server. User’s will need Microsoft’s Media Player to
view the streams. Media Player is available in the general access
labs and on faculty and staff office machines.
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