General forums
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| Course News and Announcements | The News and Announcements forum is for your efacilitator to send you messages, updates, clarifications and reminders. The announcements go to everyone on the course and they are automatically copied to your email. Although this is a forum, it works like a one-way channel for your efacilitator to... |
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Learning forums
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| Topic 1 | Icebreaker: Who am I? | Using PowerPoint, create one slide with information about yourself. Use words and pictures to share who you are, what makes you unique and what your interests are. Add a background color. Experiment with word art. Save your slide as a picture to your computer and then upload it to this forum. ... |
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| Share your best and worst PowerPoint experiences | There's a ton of advice to be had on PowerPoint, but nothing makes a point quite as well as real life. Even with the best advice, it's hard to know what's going to work…or isn't, until you're in the middle of the presentation.
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| Topic 2 | Topic Two Reflection |
What challenges did you ... |
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| Topic 3 | Topic Three Reflection |
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| Design tips for creating quality interactive PowerPoint slides |
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| Topic 4 | Topic Four Forum: Preparing for facilitating a training session using PowerPoint |
What are your biggest concerns? Do you feel ... |
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| Topic 5 | Training Session Reflection and Self Evaluation |
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| Topic Five Forum: What I still want to say about PowerPoint! |
How hard was it to learn all the technical aspects of PowerPoint? How will you use PowerPoint in the future? What did you learn... |
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| Resources | Portfolio Forum |
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| Q & A Forum | Forum to place course related questions on "How do I ..." "I need help with..." |
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| Social Forum |
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Tell us your best and/or worst PowerPoint story. It doesn't matter if ...
Take a few moments to reflect on your experiences acquiring MS PowerPoint skills. This was a self guided week. You had to learn the skills on your own using online tutorials and by conducting Internet research. Did you receive support from a class mate? From your mentor?
Take a few moments to reflect on your experiences with planning and developing Power Point slides and preparing for your learning session. This week you learned about quality, interactivity and design best practice.
Join or start a discussion on the preparation needed for facilitation using your set of PowerPoint slides you designed. Have you organized everything you need in advance? Do you have a technical person to help you or can you manage everything yourself?
Take a few moments to reflect on your experiences with facilitating a training session. 
In this forum you can start discussions and react to other participants postings on any course related aspect you might have wanted to mention in regards to PowerPoint.
This is your private portfolio forum. You will receive badges for completing the four major tasks and assignments as outlined below. 
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The Social Forum is a space for you to interact in a social and informal way. Use this forum anytime you need a break from the course activities, to meet up, hangout and chat, make connections and share interests.