Course Structure
MS WORD
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
Word processors have a variety of uses and applications within the business world, home, and education. Business Within the business world, Microsoft Word is a highly useful tool. Typical applications include:
- memos
- letters and letterhead
- legal copies
- reference documents
MS EXCEL
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
- Excel makes calculations of complex formulas easy;
- Excel works great as a primary reporting tool; and
- Excel is used extensively by just about everyone at work.
MS POWERPOINT
A software package designed to create electronic presentations consisting of a series of separate pages or slides.
Presentation structure:
- INTRO SLIDE:
- Title of presentation, date, presenter name
- OUTLINE SLIDE:
- Key points of what you will talk about
- Then follow the structure you’ve laid out
- Start broad, finish specific
- Rank Information (What NEEDS to go on the slide)
- Simplify
- CONTENT SLIDES:
- Cover detailed information based on your outline
- As many slides as you need, as many as 1-2 per minute
- Remember Powerpoint is more visual than verbal: “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
- FINAL SLIDE:
- Audience will likely take away the last thing you say
- So make a point to have the last slide be meaningful
- Provide contact information for follow-up?
- Pose a question for discussion?
- Finish with a joke/or light-hearted conclusion?
- At the very least put a blank slide at the end
- provides a non-distracting placeholder for discussion
- prevents clicking through back to Powerpoint application
- Slide types:
TEXT:
- Highlight your presentation, don’t create a substitute for it
- Bullet points, not complete sentences
- 4-6 points per page
- No large blocks of text, audience stops listening and reads
- Consider showing one point at a time, using animation
- helps the audience focus on what you are saying
- IMAGES:
- Avoid clip art, everyone has seen it before, lacks emphasis
- Images should be good: not pixilated, out of focus, too dark
- Cropped to remove distractions
- GRAPHS/DIAGRAMS:
- Make them as simple as possible
- To be grasped in just a few moments, not studied at length
Basic Internet
The Internet, sometimes called simply “the Net,” is a worldwide system of computer networks – a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers).