The purpose of these tutorials is to get you proficient in OpenOffice.org 
Impress as quickly as possible.
Impress is a powerful program – it provides the tools to let you do almost anything you can dream up. But, you don't have to master every function available to create great presentations.
You'll find that you will use certain features in almost every presentation you create, things like creating text and graphics, formatting your presentation and slides. These skills are covered in the core skills phase. 90% of the time these skills are all you will need to create a compelling presentation.
Working smarter
The next step in mastering OpenOffice.org Impress is to learn how to work more efficiently and make your presentations easier to maintain.
In the “working smarter” phase we will cover how to use templates, styles, and other tools to save time and make your slides more consistent and professional. You'll also learn the smart way to make changes and adapt your presentations to different audiences. We'll also cover how to share your slides with others, publish them to the web and print handouts.
OpenOffice.org Impress will let you add special effects such as animation, and transitions to your slides. You can add video, sound, links to web pages, graphs and charts and other cool things to your slides. All of this will be covered in the advanced tutorials.
Hands on learning approach
This workshop takes a different approach to learning than most other learning tools. We could just go from one feature to the next and show you how to use each one - but that’s boring and definitely not the best way to learn.
Instead we base the workshop on a real world example. Then we'll show you how to use Impress to solve the problem.
You'll not only see how to use a certain feature of OpenOffice.org, you'll see how features work together, and you may see new ways to work more efficiently and creatively.
This is a better approach because there’s much more to learning a new program than just knowing how to use its features.