And much more The possibilities are endless. Anyone with basic PowerPoint skills can use this book to create powerful educational material for themselves, their colleagues, their students, or their own children.
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Very good for one specific aspect.......2006-11-11
This book is an excellent resource if you want to learn how to use Visual Basic to write interactive quizzes in PowerPoint.It is definitely aimed at educators. There are better books out there for learning PowerPoint, but this book is definitely outstanding in this one area.
The Power of a Programmer (without being one).......2006-07-17
If you're like me, experienced with PowerPoint, but not a programmer, then taking a trip into the world of vba scripting with David Marcovitz's "Powerful PowerPoint for Educators" makes it easy and enjoyable. This book is like having a conversation with the author who has "been there and done it" in terms of developing script that is practical and useful in so many PowerPoint projects you may need to develop. Among other objectives, I had the need to incorporate an interactive leadership style self-assessment in my cbt of the same name, and thanks to David's book I was able to let the user make his/her selections (as well as change them too), track scores, and then take those scores on to subsequent slides to discern the meaning of each of them (not to mention printing as well as saving those scores based on user preference). And of course, all along the way, I learned a great deal about other scripting options that proved useful in this application as well as for future projects.
If you're at the stage where you need to use vba scripting, this is the book that should be your primer. It will take you where you need to go!
Improperly Titled.......2006-07-11
This book is not really properly titled -- it should be "Using Scripting to Make PowerPoint Interactive." The author makes it clear (part way through the book) that he is not writing this for people with programming knowledge -- all he intends for you to do is copy the scripts he provides and use them as he intends. He even discourages the reader to read what little is written about programming.
In addition, the $45 price tag is ludicrously high. This book is worth $19.95 tops.
Only book on VBA devoted to PowerPoint.......2004-04-29
Every computer coordinator and interested computer teacher, anyone who does instructional presentations / training, and college level professors who are accustomed to using PowerPoint and those constructing online programs for medical CEU programs, now using such programs as Agility Presenter or Appraiso would benefit from this book. This method of using VBA with PowerPoint truly allows for authentic, interactive, memorable, meaningful, and fun e-learning with a program many trainers already use. Sure you can do this with Flash, but most instructors in other fields than computer technology really don't have time for that learning curve. Maybe the computer teacher has time, but not the social studies teacher nor the medical professor teaching second year medical students interview techniques, for example. As an instructor it would be great to provide an additional e-learning module on CD that you created with PowerPoint and VBA. It will leave a lasting impression.
I have searched many a thousand paged books for dribs and drabs of VBA on PowerPoint. This book immediately gives you useful, real world problems and gets right to the point in about 180+ pages and contains more information than many thousand page books that cost considerably more. The author also provides a Web site with actual samples of the programs that work in case you run into difficulties.
I went on a newsgroup site to ask a VBA question about PowerPoint before Amazon sent my book. Normally I receive answers that are completely beyond anything I need or want. It just so happens that the book's author answered my question and helped me solve my problem and told me about his book, at which point I realized I had recently ordered it. I often rate books, but I rarely write reviews. This one deserves all 5 stars and then add five more! I can't say enough about it. It is one of a kind.
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Basic Presentation Skills
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Author Gary Kroehnert follows up his two training best-sellers with a fun, relaxed, cartoon-filled book on the stressful topic of presentation skills. Its simple, clear principles and techniques cover many topics not addressed in competing books, such as "principles of adult learning and retention", "group presentations," "taking questions from the audience," "games, simulations, and role-plays," "using a microphone," etc.
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Basic Business Communication: Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation with Student CD-ROM/PowerWeb, and BComm Skill Booster
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Lesikar and Flatley's, Basic Business Communication (BBC): Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation, has long been known as a solid introductory business communication book that gets to the writing skills sooner than most other texts and gives students true 'how-to' skills in all areas of business communication. It has solid examples, and is both consumer-and service-oriented. Its strength has also been its use of margin notes, cartoons and photos that relate to the concepts and use of cases. Recent editions have established BBC as truly cutting edge; it was the first text in the market with PowerPoint as part of its package, the first to have an online chapter, and with the 9th Edition is now the first to offer writing tips and templates for PDAs (personal digital assistants).).
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Basic Business Communication: Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation (Cram101 Textbook Outlines - Textbook NOT Included)
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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
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Useless.......2007-01-23
I bought this product expecting summaries and plain english explanations of the concepts in the book it is meant to accompany, but all I got were quoted definitions of words. I believe this book is just an attempt to get customers to subscribe to the online service (which costs money), but these Cram101 cons aren't getting another penny of mine.
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Basic Letter and Memo Writing (Communication and English Series)
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This widely-used, activity-oriented favorite teaches basic principles of business writing, as well as approaches to letter and memo writing.
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how to write business memos.......2000-02-08
please help me the guidelines to feedback the memos. and get me some free samples of memos]
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The ability to communicate effectively is critical for student success in today's business environment. The new edition of this "back to the basics" text was specifically designed to help students develop their communication skills. The authors offer complete coverage of fundamental business English topics and concepts, with extensive practice and end-of-chapter review. Three chapters focus on essential oral and nonverbal communication skills. Facing-page models, a hallmark feature of this text, provide students with good and bad examples of business writing. This new edition also integrates technology throughout, using numerous Internet activities combined with a dedicated chapter on technology issues. Updated information on business and casual dress for interviews and electronic resumes helps students prepare for the realities of today's workplace.
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Basic.......2004-05-25
Book is very simple. If you have any exposure to the business world, this will be easy ad simple to understand. Good points and gives simple business communication tips.
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One of the most important requirements of leadership is effective communication. The idea that some people are natural leaders and that others will never learn to show good leadership is nowadays outdated. It has been replaced by the conviction that leadership and communication skills can be learnt.
Providing a thorough introduction to skilled interpersonal communication, Communication in Organizations consists of three parts. Part I introduces basic communication skills, and makes a distinction between regulating skills, listening skills and sender skills. Part II considers a number of different dialogues: the interview used to gather information, the selection interview, the employment interview, the performance evaluation interview, the personal problems interview, handling complaints, breaking bad news, and the sales interview. Part III is dedicated to conversations in more complex group situations, discussing decision making, conflict management, negotiations, and giving presentations.
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150 Best Companies for Liberal Arts Graduates: Where to Get a Winning Job in Tough Times
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Uncanny Advice.......2000-06-01
The book was extraordinary in assistance with finding my current job. Graduating from a liberal arts college, I was at first nervous about finding a career. With the knowledge gained from this book, I realized the possibilities were endless.
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