Discuss the types of visual aids you might use in various situations.  What parameters should you consider when determining what would work best?

How can you use good graphics to focus on your presentation's content?

How can you use formatting to enhance the content of your research paper?

Virtual Presentation Assistant -- U of Kansas

Microsoft Word Editing Exercises

Good Graphics Principles

1. Guidelines for Good Visual Aids
2. Using Visual Aids

Presentations

1. Introduction to PowerPoint XP
2. Guide on the Side--It's In Your Hands
3. How to Make a Great Poster
4. Guide on the Side--Tips on Delivering Plain Vanilla Presentations

Word Processing

1. Word Processing with Word 2002 (XP)
2. Guide to Using APA Style Template in Word

Web Pages

1. Creating Web Pages Using Microsoft Word
2. Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition
3. Finding Images on the Web

Equipment & Materials in Instructional Media

1. To reserve equipment -- Click on Schmidt Library Information in the Schmidt Library home page navigation bar.  Then click on Reserve Instructional Media Equipment..

Use and communicate information effectively

Use word processors to create professional documents to convey information
 

"We hope that the quality of student presentations will improve, that their written work submitted, such as term papers and lab reports will all take advantage of the new technologies and form processing.  For instance, in Chemistry, we often times want to format a complicated equation. 

There are tools that allow that to be done very professionally.  That is what we are going to expect from our students. This is going to be the new standard in taking these skills outside of the York College experience, not only preparing them for course work, but in their presentations they'll give certainly as professionals. They will always be able to use these skills as they continue through life."

Skills

Use basic Word features

Outcomes

Apply basic Word features to create professional documents

Understand basic graphics principles

Enhance written presentations with good graphics
 

Deborah Ricker Biology Professor

"For employment purposes, I think it [ability to use computer applications] is going to be important because... employers are looking toward hiring students who have some familiarity and some ability to use these technologies. Having our students have these capabilities in their arsenals will make them much more marketable in the job force."