PowerPoint, or text

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PowerPoint, ortext multimedia in class

• Eva M. Fernández
• Queens LOTE Consortium
• Linguistics Communication Disorders
• Queens College CUNY
• LOTE_at_qc.edu

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Main Features

• Create SLIDES
• projected from PC
• printed as transparencies
• printed as hand-outs
• uploaded to web server
• Integrate text and multimedia content
• Deliver presentations
• in formal or informal settings
• in classrooms or conferences

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A Glorified Word Processor?

• Yes but,
• PPT (and other similar software titles)ISNT
  (arent) JUST FOR MANAGING TEXT
• to use Microsofts jargon
• you can easily organize, powerfully illustrate,
  and professionally deliver your ideas PPT gives
  you the tools you need to communicate with
  impact
• found somewhere on the Microsoft.com website

you can easily organize, powerfully illustrate,
and professionally deliver your ideas PPT
gives you the tools you need to communicate
with impact
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Word Processors Word, WordPerfect, Wordstar,

• entering large amounts of text
• printing text, or displaying it on a small
  computer screen
• so
• small fonts, aligned left, portrait orientation
• can manage incorporation of multimedia objects,
  but cant display them well
• keyboard commands for entering and formatting
  text, but not for presentations

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Presentation Software PowerPoint, Freelance,
Corel Presentations
?

• Designed for making slides
• default font sizes are big
• default alignment and spacing of text varies,
  depending on slide layout
• default image is oriented as landscape
• ideal for overhead projectors
• with data projectors,takes advantage of screen
  size

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Presentation Software PowerPoint, Freelance,
Corel Presentations

• Designed for running slide shows
• features to maximally use screen when running a
  presentation
• keyboard commands to simplify presentation tasks
• browsing from slide to slide
• changing color of screen
• using / hiding pen or pointer

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Presentation Software PowerPoint, Freelance,
Corel Presentations

• AND you can associate a slide with notes, an
  outline, etc.
• simplifies making handouts and summaries
• helps organize ideas
• improves efficacy of presentation

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Presentation Software PowerPoint, Freelance,
Corel Presentations
?

• FINALLY, you can save presentations as HTML
  files, to upload to the web
• for asynchronousdelivery of lectures / talks
• or even for synchronous delivery
• features to set upOnline Broadcasts

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How Does It Work?

• A PPT file a sequence of slides
• screens with text and/or multimedia content
• each associated with an outline (generated
  automatically) and notes (generated by author)
• Multi-panel user interface
• workspace (slide)
• outline or thumbnails of slides
• notes
• scrollbars, menus, toolbars

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Multipanel (Normal) View
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Slide Sorter View
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Design Features

• ENTERING TEXT DEFAULT LAYOUTS
• Disadvantage
• reduces creativity?
• Advantages
• generates outline automatically
• makes global changes easier

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Design Features

• TEMPLATES
• Slide background and text designs, color
  schemes, animation schemes
• Disadvantages
• induces wasting time?
• may add to slide clutter problem
• Advantage
• cool and fun and possibly effective?

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Drawing Animating

• Some Examples

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Autoshapes
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Simple Complex
coordinate S ? S CONJ S
simple S ? NP VP
S
S
S
S
CONJ
NP
VP
subordinate S ? S
S
S
S
S
CONJ
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An architecture for bilingual cognition
JOINT MEMORY STOREevents lived in Lx or
Lymaterial learned in Lx or Ly
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Here is a red kite and a green kite.
They have different color tails.
18 What color is the tail of the kite that has
a bow on it?
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Images

• Prefab Clipart or Your Own Snapshots

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Charts Graphs
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ON-LINE READING TIMESMONOLINGUALS BILINGUALS
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The United States

• A place with numerous linguistic minorities
• Take Queens County, for example
• 44 of the population speaks a LOTE at home (1990
  US Census)
• Of this 44, MOST are BILINGUALS
• Figures overlook people who speak LOTEs, but
  dont use them at home

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Grade
Grade
Hits
Hits
Figure 5 Hits to homework areas against final
grade, r (74) .150, p .10
Figure 6 Hits to test areas against final
grade, r (74) .300, p
Grade
Grade
Hits
Hits
Figure 7 Hits to lecture notes areas against
final grade, r (74) .015, p .10
Figure 5 Hits to miscellaneous admon. tools
against final grade, r (74) .276, p
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Organization Charts Diagrams
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Figure 1. Correspondences between bilingual and
monolingual behavior in sentence processing,
categorized as language-independent and
language-dependent. Sx indicates set of
strategies associated with Lx.
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Equations
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Linear Correlation Coefficient (r)
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Buttons Hyperlinked to URLs

• Internet
• local files
• local or remote executables
• etc.

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QC ONLINE / BLACKBOARD

• the class website is accessible only through QC
  ONLINE (Blackboard 5)
• to access it, you must

1. activate your account
http//vanguard.qc.edu
2. login to QC Online and edit your personal
information
http//online.qc.edu
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Sounds Moving Images
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BORROWING use of a word or phrase from Lx within
Ly utterance

• Ya no están, están en special

Ahí para comprarlo para este weekend pa este
weekend

• mot juste, gap in lexicon, etc.
• phonological morphological integration into
  host language
• notice, both borrowed words are from English

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Saving Work -)

• Save Save As
• presentation (.ppt)
• show (.pps)
• outline (.rtf)
• set of images (.gif, .jpg, .tif, etc.)
• Save As HTML
• Record save online broadcasts

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Saving Work -)

• Embedding true-type fonts
• Embedding versus linking associated files
• Pack and Go function

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Running a slide show

• the full screen view
• keyboard v. mouse
• black-outs, white-outs
• navigating through slides
• the mouse as pointer or pen

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Keyboard shortcuts

• Advance to next slide
• space, N, right or down arrow, enter, page down
• Return to previous slide
• backspace, P, left or up arrow, page up
• Go to slide number
• enter
• End show
• esc, ctrlbreak

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More keyboard shortcuts

• black-out B
• white-out W
• show / hide arrow pointer A
• pointer-to-pen ctrlP
• pen-to-pointer ctrlA
• hide pointer button ctrlH
• erase drawing E

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Printing Slides

• As overheads
• on plain paper
• on transparencies
• As handouts
• the gray-scale print-out
• the black-and-white print-out
• the outline print-out
• the handout print-out

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Running an Effective Show

• Prepare your slides
• Slide Show ? Set Up Show
• remember to embed fonts
• save as .pps, rather than .ppt
• Rehearse!
• practice the talk
• practice the timing

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Running an Effective Show

• Technical considerations
• how to order the equipment
• how to save your files
• how to set up the equipment
• troubleshooting

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Running an Effective Show

• Design considerations
• consistent use of text amount, size, positioning
• conservative use of images
• as many as will illustrate your point(no more,
  no less)
• sparing but purposeful use of animation
• quantitative information is often best presented
  graphically
• avoid three-dimensional graphs (hard to read)

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THANKS!? Please addressquestions and comments
to LOTE_at_qc.edu

• Eva M. Fernández
• Linguistics Communication Disorders
• Queens LOTE Consortium