Institute for the Study
of American Language and Culture,(ISALC)
Lewis & Clark
College
These PowerPoint presentations are produced by intermediate
level students at the Institute for the Study of American Language
and Culture (ISALC) at Lewis and Clark College. Students taking the
Communications Skills class choose a campus office or department in
which they are interested, and conduct an interview of personnel in
that department. Students take notes and photos during the interview,
which they then incorporate into PowerPoint presentations. Students
later use their PowerPoint slides as visual aids when they present
oral reports of their campus visits to their classmates.
This page serves as a resource to introduce new ISALC students
to campus services and departments at Lewis & Clark. In addition,
students can look at these PowerPoint presentations as samples of the
work they will be producing when they complete their Campus Visits
project in the Communications Skills
class.
Student PowerPoint
Presentations and Campus Locations
Look at the purple numbers
next to the campus offices. To locate the office, find the
corresponding number on the campus map: Interactive
campus map - Point with your mouse and see a description of the
building.(Need 4.0 or higher browsers + large screen) OR
Standard
campus map (Names of buildings and departments listed below the
map).
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Teaching Materials -
Introducing Students to PowerPoint
Intermediate level ESL students learn the skills needed to make
PowerPoint presentations in approximately two hours in a computer lab
setting. Here is one technique for teaching these skills.
- Create a sample PowerPoint presentation on a topic of your
choice. It works well to make it similar in format to the
presentations you want your students to create. For this project,
we created a presentation about our language program, the ISALC.
Our presentation consists of eight slides with three photos. Let's
call this presentation, "Copy Me." Click here
to see "Copy Me" on the Web. Click here
to download and view "Copy Me" in PowerPoint.
- Create a PowerPoint presentation covering the basics of how to
make a PowerPoint presentation. Let's call this presentation, "How
To." You can can see the instructions we used for our project.
Click here to see our "How To"
on the Web. Click here to download and
view our "How To" in PowerPoint. (content of our "How To" is
courtesy of Greg Kaminski and Debbie Anholt).
- Print out and give students a hard copy of "How To" and tell
them this is their guide to using PowerPoint. (It's a good idea if
students read this the night before as homework). Print out and
give students a hard copy of "Copy Me" in two different formats,
one printed using the "Handouts-Six Slides Per Page" option so
they can see what their product will look like, and the other
using "Outline View" (.pdf
version) (.html version ) so
they will have the information they need to type in. If you
downloaded "Copy Me" and "How to" in Steps 1 and 2 above, you can
print these handouts now from your computer.
- Give your students the image files they will need to create
"Copy Me." Click here to see each of the three graphics files our
students used. Image 1,
Image 2, Image
3, After clicking on a link, the image will appear. To
download the file to your computer, click on the image and hold
the mouse button down (Mac) or right click on the image (P.C's).
Depending on whether you are using Netscape or Internet Explorer,
you will choose "Save image as. . . " or "Download image to disk."
The image files will download to your computer and you can give
them to students to insert into "Copy Me."
- As a whole class demonstration, open the PowerPoint
presentation, "Copy Me" and do a slide show. Tell students that
their task is to create a PowerPoint presentation exactly like the
one they see.
- Tell students that their "Copy Me" handout shows them how the
presentation should look and also (the outline version) gives them
the text they will need to enter. Remind them that they have the
image files they need.
- Using the "How To" handout as a guide, work with the students
as they begin to create their presentation. Students will type in
the text they need from the "outline" version of the "Copy Me"
handout. Create the first couple of slides with the students and
then they can go on their own.
- The teacher may also want to actively help students when it
comes time to make "transitions" between slides and "animations"
(to make text "fly" onto the slide, point by point).
- When students have finished, they can spellcheck and proofread
their work. They can do a final check of their presentation by
looking at it on the monitor and/or printing out a copy and
comparing it to the "Copy Me" handout.
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Benefits and Challenges of
the Project
Benefits
- Students become acquainted with campus personnel, department
locations, functions, and services.
- Students call for appointments, arrange and conduct
interviews, take digital photos.
- Students take notes during the interview; prepare concise,
logical outlines from the information.
- Students learn to create presentations in PowerPoint.
- Students gain experience in oral presentations.
- Students use a large screen projection system as a visual
aid.
- Students listen to, take notes from and ask questions about
classmates' oral reports.
- Reports are better organized, more interesting, and
professional looking with PowerPoint.
- Students are more motivated to present and to listen with
PowerPoint visual aids.
- Teachers gain expertise in teaching PowerPoint.
- Campus Visits reports become accessible as a program
resource.
Challenges
- Scheduling conflicts: department staff, computer lab, digital
camera
- Over-reliance on visual aid
- Technical difficulties during presentation
- Lost/damaged presentations
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ISALC, Lewis
& Clark College
TESOL
2000 - Perspectives on CALL for Project-Based Learning
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Updated: 5/23/02
