Often one hears the words 'Death by PowerPoint' but in fact this programme has a HUGE variety of wonderful uses that you may not know about. There are many exciting ways to conduct presentations - Keynote and Prezi just to name two. In this first webinar we introduced some of the amazing things that can be done with PowerPoint other than just being used for presentations. A subtitle for this webinar could be 'Ten things that you can do using PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation'.

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1. Create a newsletter

6. 1. Choose ‘Insert
shape’. They’ll be a
dark colour like this
2. Choose
‘Format…
Shape Fill…
No fill’.
They’ll
change to
white
3. Choose
‘Insert
textbox’
Choose the
font and its
Size and
write.
5. Remove
borders
‘Format…
shape
outline…no
outline’
4. Insert a
picture

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8. 2. Create a story using
PowerPoint

9. Part 1: Kirdup and Geocro in South Africa
Part 2: Brandon in Canada
Part 3: Alan, Jero and Nico in Argentina
The Tooth Fairy
A collaborative story between three nations
2. Make an e-book

10. Part 1: The Loose Tooth

11. One day a little girl was playing in the garden. Her name was Taylor and
she was playing with her cousin Kirsty. You see, Taylor had a wiggly tooth,
and it was really bothering her, a lot. All of a sudden, POP! Out came the
wiggly tooth!!
"Hooray!" said Kirsty. "At last your tooth has come out. You will have to put
it under your pillow so that the tooth fairy can come and get it and leave
you some money.“
"Oh really?" said Taylor clapping her hands with excitement.

13. 3. PowerPoint can be uploaded
to many free e-book platforms –
Slideboom, Slideshare,
AuthorStream, Youblisher.com
etc

14. Upload PowerPoint to SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net

15. Upload PowerPoints to Slideboom
http://www.slideboom.com

16. 4. You can upload a PowerPoint
to My Brainshark for amazing
student projects

17. Upload it to Mybrainshark for
amazing student projects
http://my.brainshark.com/How-to-use-Mybrainshark-557312354
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2012/08/30-
days-of-webtools-23-mybrainshark.html

19. 5. PowerPoint can be used for
embedding movie clips and
showing them

20. A place for showing movie clips

21. 6. You can make a fun game
using PowerPoint

22. Make a game
http://www.screenr.com/cyOs

24. 7. Use the Mouse Mischief to
add many student mouses to
working on the PowerPoint

26. This slide allows learners to each select an answer from
the options given.

27. Here learners draw lines on the picture using their
mouses.

28. These learners are using one computer and two mouses to work
collaboratively on a picture.

29. 8. You can insert all kinds of
documents into a PowerPoint
presentation

30. Insert all kinds of documents
*To do this go to Insert/Object/Create from File/ Browse/Open/Give icon

31. 9. You can upload a PowerPoint
presentation to Google Drive to
get a web address… or to
SkyDrive…or Dropbox…or
Box.net to get a URL!

32. Upload PowerPoint to Google Docs
• Upload PowerPoint to Google Docs
• Embed it in a blog or wiki as a presentation
from Google Docs

33. 10. Turn your PowerPoint into a
movie that can be uploaded to
YouTube

35. Thank you!
This presentation and recoding
with be placed on the SchoolNet
blog. Join us again next week
for Part 2.