#TechTipTuesday – Convert Word to PowerPoint
Every Tuesday I share a Tech Tip on our social media pages to assist our staff in their use of technology as it relates to their role.
One thing that I always struggled with in the classroom was student PowerPoint presentations. When offered the option of how students want to share their learning with others it was often a PowerPoint. Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing inherently wrong with a PowerPoint; for many students it is a comfort medium. However, there are always those students who could spend WEEKS of class time on the design of the slides and not focus on the content. Given that the classes I taught were predominately Social Studies and Science, it was the content that I needed to assess.
Now that I have moved over to the Division Office PowerPoint is back in the picture again; this time in the form of stakeholder presentations. Many of the documents we create are quite long but need to be summarized and shared with our Board, principals, staff members, public, etc: budget summaries, policies and procedures, staff support documents, community reports. We essentially do the work two times while creating a formal report and then the accompanying presentation.
Once again, Office 365 to the rescue! Users can know export a Word Document as a PowerPoint which means your information is reviewed and a PowerPoint is created automatically. For students, they can now focus on summarizing the content that they know without the distraction of template design. For staff, they can improve their efficiency by creating a secondary report automatically. See this tip in action in the video below: