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Click here to download a pdf with screenshots of step by step instructions on how to create an enhanced podcast with Garageband from a PowerPoint Presentation.  This hand out includes:

• Creating a New PowerPoint Presentation File
• Guidelines for Creating the PowerPoint Presentation
• Saving and Printing the PowerPoint Presentation
• Converting the PowerPoint Slides to Images
• Starting Garageband and Configuring Audio Input on the Mac
• Recording Your Narration in Garageband
• Importing the Images of the PowerPoint Presentation Slides into Garageband
• Exporting a Podcast Ready Copy of Your Presentation from Garageband.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
dotyblancet@cortland.edu

Impatica for PowerPoint makes it easy to create narrated presentations and deliver them to essentially any Internet device without plug-ins. Impactica’s high quality, cutting-edge compression capabilities make it capable of delivering your presentation to virtually everyone, even users with dial-up by compressing typical PowerPoint HTML files by up to 95%.

If you are interetsed in using Impatica for PowerPoint please go to http://www.cortland.edu/ir/impatica/ and fill out the form for installation instructions and the license key.

Below is a video for users of the old version of Impatica on how to convert a narrated PowerPoint with Impatica and then upload it to WebCT. The conversion process is almost identical for the new Impatica and PowerPoint applications

We now have several PowerPoint template designs with the new Cortland logo and bridge graphics available for download on the Communication Guide website – http://www.cortland.edu/commguide/brand/ppt.html

You can incorporate any or all of these PowerPoint file as design themes in PowerPoint 2007 and apply them to existing presentations, or create new ones.

Click here to download instructions on how to download and install these template designs as design themes in PowerPoint 2007.  Please note, if you are going to use the new Cortland approved fonts, you will need to download and install the fonts from this page – http://www.cortland.edu/fonts/ (Instructions for downloading and installing the fonts are included on the page).

Though the Technology Trainer may lack the comedic timing of this guy, the TTC does offer a “Death by PowerPoint” workshop. Check the TTC website for this month’s schedule.

If you need more information, please contact:

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
dotyblancet@cortland.edu
http://library.cortland.edu/ttc/training_center.asp

Below you will find links to many useful text based (with screen shots) tutorials  on Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 

PowerPoint Background Information

• The Office 2007 Environment
• PowerPoint Terminology
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• The PowerPoint Views

PowerPoint Basics

• Basic PowerPoint Tasks
• Making Your Presentation
• Working with a Slide Master
• Working with Text
• Working with Bullets and Numbering
• Printing Your Presentation
• Viewing Your Presentation Outline
• Working with Handouts

Working with Objects

• Modifying Objects
• Using Color
• Using Fill Effects
• Working with Images
• Using Animation
• Creating an Organization Chart

Customizing PowerPoint

• Customizing Slide Elements
• Using the Slide Sorter View
• Customizing a Master Slide
• Working with Design Themes
• Capturing Images, Sounds, and Movies
• Using Sounds and Video

PowerPoint Diagrams

• Working with SmartArt: An Overview
• Working with SmartArt
• SmartArt Formatting Options
• Animating SmartArt

More PowerPoint Features

• Charting Information
• Adding Links
• Making Your Presentation Portable

Viewing Online Presentations

• The Environment
• Creating a Web Presentation
• Working with Online Presentations

Inserting Clip Art

• Overview of Clip Art
• Using Clip Art
• Importing Clip Art from the Web

Using Microsoft Office Help

The following tutorials from Florida Gulf Coast University contain screen shots with step by step instructions.

Microsoft Word 2007 – http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2007/Word/index.asp

Getting Started
Working With Documents
Customize the Word Environment
Editing a Document
Formatting Text
Formatting Paragraphs
Styles
Adding Tables
Graphics
Proofing a Document
Page Formatting
Macros
Table of Contents
Creating Web Pages
Lists
References and Citations
Track Changes

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 – http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2007/ppt/index.asp
Getting Started
Customize
Creating a Presentation
Working with Content
Formatting Text
Adding Content ( Bulleted and Numbered Lists, Nested Lists, Formatting Lists, Adding Video, Adding Audio)
Graphics
Tables
Charts
Slide Effects
PrintingTips

Microsoft Excel 2007 – http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2007/Excel/index.asp
Getting Started
Customize Excel
Working with a Workbook
Manipulating Data
Modifying a Worksheet
Performing Calculations
Macros
Sort and Filter
Graphics
Charts
Formatting a Worksheet
Developing a Workbook
Page Properties and Printing
Customize the Layout

Microsoft has created many self paced online tutorials for both the Office 2007 and Office 2003 application suites.  These are text based tutorials that include images with an audio narration, and are categorize by application and function.  The tutorials can be viewed at  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/FX100565001033.aspx .

The Office 2007 rollout has begun! With the new Office suite, comes new file formats which result in backwards compatability issues with previous versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Fortunately, there is a free tool from Microsoft that will allow previous versions of these programs to open, edit, save and create files using these new formats.For more information, and a link to download the compatibility pack, visit Microsoft’s website at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx�