Introduction
You can use PowerPoint to create quick, professional looking diagrams to explain concepts. You could use it to create a graphical representation of:

• a course outline

• a process

• building relationships

• overlapping relationships

• concentric relationships

• hierarchical relationships like organization charts

Directions

Create the diagram
Open PowerPoint and choose Insert / Diagram from the menu.
The list of diagram types displays.
Click the type of diagram you want to use.

When the diagram appears, click on it and label its parts.

The Diagram Tool Bar also appears.

To add more shapes of the same type to the drawing....................Click the Insert Shape button .

To change colors or font sizes....................Right click the shape and choose Format/ Autoshape

To create various shadows and colors.....................Click the AutoFormat graphic on the Tool Bar

Create an image file of the diagram

You can create an image from the PowerPoint slide in a number of ways:

1. Display the image and use a screen capture program (like SnagIt) to capture it as a jpg.
2. In PowerPoint choose File/Save As. Choose jpg as the file type.
    PowerPoint will ask if you want to export just the current slide or every slide. Click
    Current Slide Only. The slide will be exported as a single graphic.

You can import the graphic into BlackBoard using the instructions at http://www.dwc.edu/library/blackboard/add_images.shtml

Examples
A course outline created using the the Organizational Diagram.

 A description of a cycle from Diane Ackerman's book An Alchemy of Mind.