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 * Team Purple's PowerPoint Tutorial Wiki **

**Authors: Donna Hall, Tina Kanipe, and Melissa Padgett**

//Grand Canyon University//

//TEC 539//

Microsoft Office's PowerPoint software helps users bring creativity and visual impact to presentations. PowerPoint uses a graphical approach to presentations in the form of a slide show. PowerPoint is one of the easiest computer programs to learn and is one of the first programs chosen worldwide for presentations. Students and teachers can use PowerPoint to create high-quality presentations with stunning graphics. Once teachers become comfortable working with PowerPoint, using this software can have an immediate and effective impact on the classroom. PowerPoint can be used in the classroom to organize information in the form of lecture accompanied by graphics. The different tools within PowerPoint allow teachers to create visually enhanced presentations for class. The ability to insert images and animation effects prove to be an effective way to engage students in learning. Additionally, PowerPoint can be an effective tool for assessing student learning. Students can use PowerPoint to create presentations that demonstrate connections between prior and new knowledge. Our wiki page is designed to help users understand how to create and edit a PowerPoint presentation. The tutorials within this wiki page will cover the following: creating a new PowerPoint presentation, adding slides, selecting a theme, personalizing the theme, inserting images, inserting graphics, adding animation effects, adding sound, adding hyperlinks, and adding video clips. The tutorials may be viewed by clicking on the name of each author. All tutorials are in an audio visual format designed to help new users develop a greater sense of how to work with the PowerPoint software. This new knowledge and understanding can then be used to produce work for the classroom.