PowerPoint Presentations

For this round of classes, I decided I wanted to do something different. After having taught An Invitation to Intimacy fourteen other times, I once again tried to think of something “new” to bring to this set of students.

After evaluating my skills, I realized I had learned how to do some PowerPoint a year ago, but had not done much with it. So, after some time refreshing my memory and learning some things I had not known before, I began with lesson one.

It certainly took longer than I had expected to format the information into slides, but after numerous efforts, I created my first PowerPoint presentation for An Invitation to Intimacy. I have to say, it went very well. It was visually interesting and having facts and powerful statements up on the big screen was an even more effective way of helping these women comprehend the information being presented.

You see, once the presentation is created, it can be saved as a PowerPoint file to your computer. Then you simply launch the file, hook your computer up to a projector with a gadget called a dongle which is simply a small piece of hardware that connects on the side of a laptop or desktop computer. (It’s the place on the side of a laptop that has two rows of holes. Contact me if you would like a picture.)

Once you have your computer hooked up to the projector, you just need a screen or a big wall for viewing. It’s really quite easy. It just takes a little bit of setting up.

Since that first week, I’ve been creating a PowerPoint presentation for each week. I’m all the way through week 6 and plan to continue with the rest of the lessons.

In the future, I would like to make these available for leaders to purchase so the lessons can be presented in a more powerful way. Being a visual learner myself, I find that even now I am better able to retain more of the information I’m sharing with others than I probably did in the past.

I’ll let you know later this summer, or simply check back under the leader resources for availability. Like me, you might even find that the PowerPoint presentations will take the place of the leader’s guide.