[Baynet] Infopeople's Intermediate PowerPoint workshop

[Linda Rodenspiel]

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Title:  Increasing Your PowerPoint Skills (Intermediate Level)

Dates and locations:

Monday, April 17, San Francisco Public Library
Friday, May 19, Los Angeles Public Library
Friday, June 16, Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill
Monday, July 17, Cerritos Public Library
Friday, August 11, California State Library

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at
http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Workshop/257

Fee:  There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop.


PowerPoint has become the tool of choice for designing, developing and 
delivering presentations. This powerful application, if used appropriately, 
can greatly enhance the effectiveness of visually presented information in 
a variety of settings.

If you already know PowerPoint basics and you're ready to move to the next 
level, this workshop will help you create more engaging and dynamic 
presentations by using more advanced PowerPoint features and applying 
effective presentation design guidelines.


Workshop Description: This one-day, hands-on workshop will explore 
intermediate level PowerPoint skills such as working with templates, using 
multimedia objects and custom animations, adding interactions, and 
publishing completed presentations. Workshop participants will receive a 
full instruction set, tip sheets, and templates so that they can re-create 
all of the PowerPoint effects presented during the workshop.

Pre-workshop assignment: Two weeks prior to each workshop, participants 
will be asked to submit via email one PowerPoint presentation that they 
have created so that the instructor can tailor course activities to build 
on the skills you have already learned. Send PowerPoint presentations to 
Martín Sanabria at martinjss at hotmail.com.  Participants are also encouraged 
to bring to class a topic of interest for which they will be developing a 
presentation.

Preliminary Course Outline:

Applying Effective Presentation Design Guidelines
--Readability, visual clarity and consistency
Getting the Most out of Working with Text and Graphics
--Advanced text editing techniques
--Drawing and graphic techniques
Working with Templates and Slide Designs
--New ways of using templates
--Modifying backgrounds, color schemes, and slide masters
Working with Custom Animations and Interactions
--Animate text and graphics to enhance your presentation
--Hyperlinks and action buttons
Working with Multimedia Objects
--Sound
--Video
Publishing and Distributing Presentations

Workshop Instructor: Martín Sanabria. Martin currently works as an 
Instructional Designer for Genentech, Inc., a biotechnology company based 
in South San Francisco. His present work entails the development of 
training courses for a variety of audiences. He also designs and develops 
online training courses. Martin has done extensive work with various web 
development applications that are used in the area of Computer-Based Training.

Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an 
interest in designing more effective PowerPoint presentations through the 
use of intermediate level PowerPoint features and techniques.

Prerequisites: To be successful in this course, you must already be 
comfortable using PowerPoint to create, edit and format a basic 
presentation, including:

Adding, modifying, and deleting slides.
Applying basic design templates to presentations.
Formatting content (adding, modifying and deleting text and graphics).

Other Logistics:

*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM;  instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM.

*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople 
Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions.  Infopeople does 
not validate or pay for parking.

*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch.  Since some training 
locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople 
recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.

To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information 
about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople 
Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop

If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please 
contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at 
assist at infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685.