1. Training Room 1

1.1. Time to Practice 1

Information Processing 1070

Training Room 1: Creating a PowerPoint® 2007 Presentation

 

Time to Practise 1

 

Instructions

 

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At this stage in your life, you may be starting to think about your future and the possible career paths you wish to take. Knowing what you are good at and what you are interested in goes a long way to helping you make career decisions. As you gain more life experience and develop new skills, it is a good idea to assess your career goals and possible career pathways.

 

For this activity you will use the ALIS website to create or update a personal inventory of your skills, interests, values, and attributes in order to make informed connections to possible occupational choices. Communicate the findings of your investigation by creating a PowerPoint presentation that you will use to practise the skills you learn throughout the course.

 

In this exercise you will apply all of the knowledge and skills covered in Training Room 1. There are two parts to this Time to Practise activity:

 

Part 1—Career Connections Investigation

 

Step 1: Go to the ALIS website “Self-Assessment Tools.”

 

Step 2: Complete at least three of the ALIS self-assessment tools.

 

Step 3: Using the search tool on the ALIS website, find the “My Personal Inventory” worksheet. Summarize your findings using the worksheet.

 

Step 4: Using the search tool on the ALIS website, find “OCCinfo” to view over 500 occupational profiles to match your personal inventory.

 

Step 5: Choose three careers that interest you. Print or summarize important information from the profile sheet. You will use this information in Part 2 of this exercise.

 

Step 6: Be sure to spend some time exploring the ALIS website. There are a number of related activities that are worthwhile to guide you on your career pathway.

 

NOTE: If you have already researched careers in another Information Processing course, you can use your research from that course for this activity. Locate your research from the other course, and then revisit the ALIS website and explore different activities to reassess and update your “My Personal Inventory” worksheet and career research.

 

Training Room 2 teaches you how to copy and paste text. If you already know how to copy and paste, you can copy and paste text from your document into the text placeholders on the PowerPoint slides that you will create in Part 2 of this activity.

 

Part 2—Creating a Basic Presentation

 

Once you have information from your career connections investigation, you will create a basic presentation that you will modify and enhance as you work through the other training rooms of this course. In Time to Practise 1, you will begin building a basic presentation by entering information from your career investigation into the slides. Your presentation at this point should be basic with no formatting or enhancements.

 

Step 1: Open PowerPoint and create a Blank Presentation. Title your presentation “Career Connections.”

 

Step 2: Add slides to your presentation that have the following information on them:

  • outline slide to provide an overview of the presentation

  • personal inventory slide to summarize your personal inventory results from the self-assessment tools on the ALIS website and the “My Personal Inventory” worksheet

  • three occupational profiles slides to profile three careers that interest you

  • connections slide to make connections from your personal inventory to your career choices; this slide will address why you are interested in or suited to these careers

  • reflections slide to communicate what you see as the positive and negative aspects of the job

  • reference slide to cite your source(s)

  • closing slide to tie up your presentation

Step 3: Save the presentation, naming the file “career,” in your INF1070 folder.

 

 

Checkpoint

 

Ask yourself the following questions:

  • Can I identify and navigate the PowerPoint 2007 screen and access commands in the Ribbon and the Office button?
  • Was I able to create, enter data into, and save a new PowerPoint presentation to document my findings from my career research?

Once you are finished Time to Practise 1 and have saved your work, talk with your teacher regarding assessment.

 

Use the Software Skills Checklist, available in the Toolkit, to check off the skills you have learned in this training room and that you are confident in demonstrating. Remember to save the Checklist to your computer so that you can keep it up-to-date.

 

If needed, revisit Training Room 1 to review any of the skills in which you had difficulties. If you are comfortable demonstrating the skills presented in this training room, continue to Training Room 2.