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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"PowerPoint"”.
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The Pitfalls of Powerpoint
The use of PowerPoint has embedded itself in many facets of American culture. From the classroom to the boardroom, "Can you get the lights?" now calls the class or meeting to order. In education, PowerPoint slides indicate what information is important and will appear on the next test. Context is …
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The PowerPoint Society: The Influence of PowerPoint in the U.S. Government and Bureaucracy
… software of presentation genre: Microsoft PowerPoint. This style of presentation has become the norm of communication, and in doing so, has replaced other methods of discursive and presentation. The art of the brief and in particular, the art of the PowerPoint has become a new standard of …
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Using gesture recognition to control PowerPoint using the Microsoft Kinect
… and gesture recognition system used to control a PowerPoint presentation using the Microsoft Kinect. This system focuses on the identification of natural gestures that occur during a PowerPoint presentation, making the user experience as fluid as possible. The system uses an HMM to classify the …
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REPLACING POWERPOINT WITH EXTENDED REALITY FOR MARINE CORPS PLANNING, CONCEPTS OF OPERATIONS, AND AFTER ACTION REPORTS
… the combat arms on the desirability of current PowerPoint and sand-table briefing methods versus briefings in a digital 3-dimensional environment with extended reality (XR). The alternatives presented in the survey were based on extensive market research conducted for this project in the …
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Teaching Two Children with Autism to Follow a Computer-Mediated Activity Schedule Utilizing Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation Software
Children with autism typically exhibit deficits in behavior and also in visual processing. Development and implementation of visually-cued instructional procedures, combined with electronic technology, have been used successfully to teach children with autism complex behavior chains. This study …
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Changing the way we build games: a design-based research study examining the implementation of homemade powerpoint games in the classroom
… the three justifications for the use of homemade PowerPoint games in the classroom: constructionism, microthemes, and question writing. A review of the literature for the justifications found that the game project, as implemented in previous studies using homemade PowerPoint games, did not align …
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Implementing DSMES for Type II Diabetics in a Rural Clinic
… the participants viewed an educational PowerPoint on DSMES. Following the PowerPoint, they completed a post-survey assessing their acquired knowledge and willingness to implement DSMES in practice. Results. The project was implemented at a clinic in Clovis, NM. Based on the responses …
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Globalization: Cultural Impacts and Implications into the Twenty-First Century
… Global Culture Professional Development Seminar: PowerPoint Presentation: The Global Classroom
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Utilizing Learning Theories in Development of Pelvic and Urological Anatomy Curriculum for Clerkship Students
… is the primary dissertation file. A supplemental PowerPoint file ("Pelvic Anatomy Slides FINAL.ppt") is also available and may be viewed individually.
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Pedagogical artifacts in teacher-initiated response pursuits: a conversation analytic study of interaction in the French foreign language classroom
… artifacts, specifically chalkboards and PowerPoint slides, in French foreign language classrooms. Based on a corpus of 29 hours of university-level French foreign language classes, the analyses provide an emic account of how teachers employ pedagogical artifacts in the course of …
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Increasing the rate of patient education regarding maternal postpartum complications in hospital affiliated outpatient obstetric/gynecologic clinics
… in mothers prenatally. An educational PowerPoint was developed to introduce and reeducate staff on the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Post Birth Warning Signs handout, and why it should be utilized in clinics. Copies of the PowerPoint and the …
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Preoperative Education: A Patient-Centered Care Approach
… per patient educated, the need for creating a PowerPoint presentation with voice over in the Arabic language to be viewed on a laptop with earbuds during the group educational session was identified. Following a microsystem assessment and root cause analysis, using Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model, …
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An Examination of the Impact of Attending an Electronic Technology Rich Program on the Teaching Styles of Senior Student Teachers
… and software applications such as Word and PowerPoint. While the two software applications least likely to be used by senior student teachers were spreadsheet applications such as Excel and databas applications like Access. The infusion of electronic technologies into lessons and curriculum …
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Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Numbers? An Exploration of Understanding and Recall of Data Presentations
… empirically-supported graphical displays in PowerPoint presentations such as one might see at a research conference. Classroom groups of beginning and more experienced statistics students (<em>n</em> = 194) were randomly assigned to watch one of two scripted PowerPoint presentations; one …
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Argument as design: a multimodal approach to academic argument in a digital age
… three digital domains, namely video, comics and PowerPoint. Grounded in a theory of multimodal social semiotics, this study posits that argument is a product of design, motivated by the rhetor's interest in communicating a particular message, in a particular environment, and shaped by the …
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Multimodal animation control
… be used in a number of applications ranging from PowerPoint presentations to simulations to children's storytelling tools.
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The Dark Side of Computer-Age Communications: Misguiding Our Way to Knowledge
… cognitive and sociological value of Microsoft PowerPoint, Google, blogs, Facebook and mobile phones and the resulting impact they are having on our social and mental construct by the very nature of their configurations and the ways in which users are exploiting their capabilities.</p>
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Google Earth in the Middle School Geography Classroom: Its Impact on Spatial Literacy and Place Geography Understanding of Students
… group students ( n = 44) used two-dimensional PowerPoint images to complete activities, while experimental group students (n = 40) were immersed in the three-dimensional Google Earth world for activity completion. Research data was then compiled and statistically analyzed to answer five …
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The effects of digital audio on social presence, motivation and perceived learning in asynchronous learning networks
… -recorded voice messages and narrated Microsoft PowerPoint presentation - used in several NJIT courses conducted via ALN. The perceptions of communication media were measured from two different user perspectives: active use when the subjects created their assignments using prescribed …
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Instructor authoring tool : a step towards promoting dynamic lecture-style classrooms
… slide-generation process, the use of Microsoft PowerPoint as a basic tool, enabling real-time feedback of student performance on exercises, the leveraging of past student mistakes and misunderstood concepts in enhancing teaching, and the support of an automatic tutoring system to be implemented …
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