Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Learning how to think outside the box to solve problems and how to express ideas in a creative way.• Understanding the importance of teamwork and how the diversity of skills is the key of s team’s success.• Knowing how to create printed stories with illustrations.• Understanding how to use Microsoft PowerPoint advanced features to create presentations.• Understanding how to use Microsoft Word advanced features to format and work with long documents.• Understanding how to use Microsoft Excel Advanced features to format, sort and filter data and perform calculations.• Understanding how to create various publications using Microsoft Publisher.

Outcomes

• Developing students’ creative abilities and thinking skills through a group of printed and computer based activities.• Learning how to create presentations, practice public speaking and present information and ideas using digital and printed methods. • Learning how to communicate and collaborate with others and be an effective team player to get the required projects and tasks done.• Enhancing students’ imagination by creating printed stories.• Learning how to create and format long documents and how to create school researches in different ways.• Learning how to create formatted and sorted spreadsheets, perform logical and mathematical calculations and how to find data based on certain criteria.• Enhancing students’ designing skills by creating different marketing publications.

Course Contents

Creative thinking• Learning how to look at things in a new way to perceive patterns that are not obvious.• Knowing how to convey ideas creatively by using computer applications and printed methods.Presentation Skills• Knowing how to present ideas and information in an interesting way using printed and digital methods.Team Building• Learning how to work in a team and collaborate with others effectively through a group of printed and computer based projects.Storytelling• Writing stories and sharing them with others.Microsoft PowerPoint• Knowing how to hide slides and duplicate them.• Knowing how to view presentations in color, grayscale or black and white.• Understanding how to work with slide master view.• Understanding how to insert charts in presentations to illustrate and compare data.• Knowing how to use WordArt feature to insert decorative text in PowerPoint presentations.• Working with hyperlinks and actions.• Knowing how to insert date & time, slide number and