1. Practice power pointIntroductory Module

2. HighlightingWhen an important term or concept is presented inone of the power point presentations, it will be inbold, underlined, green text. Like thisFor instance, blogs are used to share informationwith the whole class and journals allow each ofyou to communicate only with the instructors.2 3. Key to symbolsThroughout your power points, you will encounterthe following symbols: 3 4. Important!There are a few concepts that will be EXTRAimportant for you to remember as the courseproceeds.These concepts will be accompanied by themegaphone symbol.In presentation mode, there is a sound associatedwith the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.4 5. Journal assignmentsAt each point within a power point at which it wouldbe appropriate to answer one of your Journalquestions, you will see the clipboard and padsymbol.In presentation mode, there is a sound associatedwith the symbol if you mouse over the symbol.5 6. Questions/problemsThroughout the power points we will providequestions or problems for you to work out on yourown. The answer or worked-out problem will be onthe notes section of the same slide.These will be flagged with the question mark icon.In presentation mode, there is a sound associatedwith the symbol if you mouse over the symbol. 6 7. Notes pageSome slides will have information on the associatedNotes page. The musical notes icon will indicate youshould check the Notes.The Notes can be accessed byclicking on Normal in the View menu to reveal the notesbelow each slide, orclicking on Notes Page in the View menu to see only theslide and its notes.We will also provide an MS Word document with thetext of all notes, listed by slide number, for those of youwho can only view power point documents in slideshow mode.7 8. PencastsWhenever there is a link to a pencast tutorial for thematerial on a slide, you will see the SmartPen icon. Practice pencastFor instruction on accessing, viewing, and manipulatingthese pencasts, click on the Help with TECHNOLOGYcourse menu button, then click on Course-SpecificHelp.Scroll down to LiveScribe.Download Pencast-how-to.pptx and view the presentation.Links to Pencasts will also be available in the PowerPoint and Related Materials folder for each module.8 9. VideosThere will be some videosPractice videoHover yourcursor over the image and(and possibly someclick on the triangle.animations) related to thepower point material.Their availability will beindicated by the video iconand a link for the video itself.Since variations in systemsand browser set-ups canaffect your ability to viewcertain videos, we will alsoinclude links to the videos inthe Power Point and RelatedMaterials folder for eachmodule. There IS a brief drop-out of sound at about43 secondsits not your computer! 9