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Introductory Module

Practice Powerpoint

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Highlighting

When an important term or concept is presented in one of my powerpoint presentations, it will be in bold, underlined, blue text.

For instance, blogs will be used to share information with the whole class and journals allow each of you to communicate only with me.

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Key to symbols

Throughout your powerpoints, you will encounter the following symbols:

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Important!

There are a few concepts that will be EXTRA important for you to remember as the course proceeds.

These concepts will be accompanied by the megaphone symbol.

In presentation mode, there is a sound associated with the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.

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Journal assignments

Each point within a powerpoint at which it would be appropriate to answer one of your Journal questions, you will see the clipboard and pad symbol.

At this point I will also give you the question itself and the tag that should be associated with your answer.In presentation mode, there is a sound associated with the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.

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Questions/problems

Throughout the powerpoints I will provide questions or problems for you to work out on your own.

These will be flagged with the question mark icon.

In presentation mode, there is a sound associated with the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.

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Notes page

Some slides will have information on the associated Notes page. The musical notes icon will indicate you should check the Notes.The Notes can be accessed by

clicking on “Normal” in the View menu to reveal the notes below each slide, orclicking on “Notes Page” in the View menu to see only the slide and its notes.

I will also provide an MS Word document with the text of all notes, listed by slide number, for those of you who can only view powerpoint documents in slide show mode.

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Pencasts

Whenever there is a link to a pencast tutorial for the material on a slide, you will see the SmartPen icon.

For instruction on accessing, viewing, and manipulating these pencasts, click on the “Help with TECHNOLOGY” course menu button, then click on “Course-Specific Help.”

Scroll down to “LiveScribe.”Download Pencast-how-to.pptx and view the presentation.

Practice pencast

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Videos

There will be some videos (and possibly some animations) related to the powerpoint material.Their availability will be indicated by the video icon and a link for the video itself.

Since variations in systems and browser set-ups can affect your ability to view certain videos, you will need to let me know individually if you are having trouble.

Practice video—click on the image to start