COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDY GROUPS



The Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP) in New York City, is training most of their coordinators in the uses of computer technology in the study groups they lead. The program has been well received; people even request repeating the program and many have commented that it has improved the quality of the classes.

PowerPoint/Web
This mini-study group offers 2 sessions of instruction in the use of PowerPoint and one session on the basics of blogs, website design, and the use/enhancement of images from digital cameras. Participants will learn how to create PowerPoint presentations, find and download images from the Internet, and add appropriate extras like sound and animation.

Participants must have some proficiency in using Microsoft Word and must have the PowerPoint software on their home computers. (If they have Microsoft Office 2003, it includes PowerPoint).

Note that the entire class will work only on PC's in a New School computer lab. While the Mac version of PowerPoint differs somewhat, all the important concepts can be learned on a PC.

TEXT: Handouts and useful websites will be provided at minimal or no cost.

Both Lucy Wollin and Joan Iaconetti helped coordinate the first Technology Study Group this past summer, and look forward to offering it again. Lucy writes a respected food blog, and Joan has created several extensive websites for herself and others.

Note: Coordinators teaching a course in Spring 2008 and planning to use PowerPoint in their class will be given priority as long as they mention this in their email. All other reservations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.

Participants must have some subject in mind for a PowerPoint presentation to work on during the sessions. The topic doesn't matter -- it can be making a presentation from class notes, adding art work from the Web or working on their planned Study Group for Spring 2008. But they must decide on a subject before coming to the first class.

To sign up, members have to first answer these questions:

  1. Do you use a Mac or a PC?

  2. Are you at all familiar with PowerPoint? (If not, no problem.)

  3. Do you plan to coordinate a class in Spring or Fall 2008 and use PowerPoint for it?

  4. My subject for my PowerPoint presentation will be: (If you know it already, please list it. You can change your mind later if you like.)


 



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