Using outlines to organise information
Level of difficulty: Intermediate
As an educator you teach your learners to organise information that they have collected for a research topic. Learners can export their ideas from a Microsoft Word document to create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
An outline is a easy way to collect information and organise it so that it can be used to create a document in Microsoft Word, or to create a PowerPoint presentation. You could collect ideas from a group discussion/brainstorm, or you could collect information which you find through research.
It is a good idea to use outlining so that your students do not plagiarise information from other sources. Let them do their research and collect their ideas in an outline, using their own words. The outline helps them to concentrate on ideas and the structure of those ideas, rather than on less important aspects such as graphics, animations, etc.
Create your own outline - one which you will find useful. Alternatively, follow this example. To do so you would typically work through the following steps:
