Workshop Agenda (approximately 4 hours):

Ready?

1. Overview Presentation—An Overview of Non-Linear PowerPoint Presentations
   1. View Advance Organizer
   2. View Overview
2. Respond. Complete the Graphic Organizer showing your understanding of essential elements of a Branching PowerPoint

Set?

1. Article: Organizing and Presenting Content to Enable Online Learning
   1. Read the article.
   2. Group Discussion of article.
   3. Use the chunking form to give an example of "chunking" your content
2. Task: Think of a branching non-linear PowerPoint presentation that you would like to create. This will be the product that you will create as you progress through this online workshop. The activities in this workshop will walk you though step-by-step the process you need to follow to create this presentation. The tutorials that are included in this workshop will provide you with the skills and knowledge to be able to create your presentation in PowerPoint. When you are finished with the workshop, you’ll have a completed, well-designed PowerPoint presentation that includes branching and linking and provides your user some level of interaction with the content and control over the presentation.
3. Article: Learner Interface Design
   1. Read the article.
   2. List what big ideas you gained from the article on the Design Retrieval form.
   3. Discuss the big ideas with your group.
4. Task: Complete the template for organizing your PowerPoint presentation.
   1. Break up your content into main and sub-topics.
   2. How many main topics will you need?
   3. What are the links between slides and to outside resources?
5. Task:Sketch on paper what you think the learner interface should look like. (Remember the principles from the Learner Interface Design article) Example.

Go!

1. Task: Create your Master Slides
   1. If you don’t know how to use the PowerPoint drawing or linking tools – view the PowerPoint tutorials for each procedure that you need to know.
   2. Create the navigation buttons on your master slide. You’ll need one for each main section of content.
   3. Create any other user controls you want to provide your user. These may be created with Action buttons or you could create them with text or other shapes.
   4. If you don’t know how to use the drawing tools or you want to refresh your memory, view any of the PowerPoint tutorials that are relevant.
2. Task: Insert slides for each of your main & sub-topic areas to include the content of your presentation.
3. Task: Return to Master Slides and create links from each navigation button to the main topic slides
4. Task: Insert additional content slides to complete your presentation. Be sure to check that all your links are working properly.

Assess

1. Task: Compare your presentation to the Non-linear PowerPoint Rubric.
2. Task: Break into groups of 3 or 4 to share your presentation and to receive feedback.
   • Does the navigation seem intuitive?
   • Is it user friendly?
   • Were you able to navigate easily around the presentation?
   • Was it well organized?

Reflect

1. Task: Reflection Log—Answer the following questions after reflecting on building a non-linear PowerPoint presentation,….
   1. What are some ways that you might use this in your classroom?
   2. How could you use this with a variety of learning strategies?
   3. How might you use this to differentiate instruction?
   4. How could you use this to communicate with parents?
   5. Other thoughts?
2. Discuss your reflections with a partner.
3. Share out with the group.