Mastering PowerPoint

Mastering Power Point for Dynamic Presentations

Training Goals and Objectives

The goal of the training program is to provide the participant with the ability to design, create, and present powerful power point presentations.

Training Audience, Format, and Content

This course is intended for any level of sworn law enforcement including but not limited to officers, military personnel, administration, and first line supervisors. The participant will learn basic and intermediate levels of designing and preparing a power point presentation.

This course is most successful when taught and received with audiences of 40 attendees or fewer.

This can be customized to your agencies needs and is a 2-day course. The course is designed to be conducted from 0800 to 1600 hours daily.

Complete General Course

Ethics regarding instruction
Importance of Audio/Visual aids in instruction
Beginnings of Power Point
Selections of Topics
Basic outline
Creation of basic presentation
Development of “slides and design”
Types of files recognized
Importing photos, sounds, video
Enhancement of presentation
Presentation of participants power points

Daily content and course schedule:

Day One:

Ethics regarding instruction
Importance of Audio/Visual aids in instruction
Beginnings of Power Point
Selections of Topics
Basic outline
Creation of basic presentation
Development of “slides” and “design”

Day Two:

Types of files recognized
Importing photos, sounds, video
Enhancement of presentation
Participants Selections of Topics
Participants Basic outline
Presentation of participants power points

Student Pre–requisites: none

Maximum Enrollment: Determined by the accessibility of computers for participant use

Student Evaluation: The evaluation process will consist of classroom participation, design of presentation, and participation in practical exercises.

Limitations/Special Needs:

Audio/visual to include power point projector
Computers (desktop/laptops with Microsoft Office and PowerPoint installed) provided each participant

Student Materials

Student materials will involve copies of the handouts. A wide range of digital video and power point presentations will be used in the training session, and the instructor will come prepared with everything she will need to make this an informative, fast-paced learning experience.