Transcript How to Put Custom Sounds in Your Custom Animation Drop

Intro to PowerPoint
See How Easy It Can Be to Produce a
Quality Presentation!
Your first Experience?
If you are new to PowerPoint here’s just a
couple of things to remember.
• Everyone has to start somewhere and
nothing can be gained by giving up.
• There are many who have gone through this
before you, and luckily, we can all benefit
from their hard work.
Are you ready?
• Today’s kids are ready. Are you doing your
best to provide them with the materials they
need in the formats they desire?
Know Your Audience
• Your presentation can be very
powerful, but don’t overdo it
• Try and break your material into
digestible nuggets
• The software can help you make the
material flashy, but only you can
make it real to the students
Think, Explore, Decide
• Once you have a general idea for your
presentation, your first step can always be to
search for pre-existing materials.
• The internet affords us the luxury of instant
collaboration!
• A simple search of Google can provide a
veritable treasure chest of excellent
presentations on just about any topic!
• Click on the web for a big head start
A Little Effort Can Go a Long
Way
• Join us for an introductory
lesson
• Turn on your creative juices
• Become familiar with the
PowerPoint environment
• Become acquainted with
toolbars that can be used to add
pizzazz to normally boring
presentations
Here We GO!
• Once you have your topic, and some
ideas….
• THE SKY IS THE LIMIT
• Where you go from here is up to you, but
we will try and provide you with some ideas
that have worked for us
Simply Add Spice to Your Notes
What is a cat ?
• You can either present
your information as
notes or add
reinforcing add-ons!
Or Go All Out
• Either way, you’ll need to know some of the
basics…
• In order to be able to do cool stuff like….
3.
2.
1.
Big Explosion
Creating Special Effects Can Be
As Easy As
Or Be Creative With the Slide Show>
Custom Animation>Effects Choices
Now You
Now You
See It
The Menu Toolbar
• File>
• Edit>
• View>
New - to open PowerPoint template
Object - to recolor a clipart picture
• Insert>
Picture, Clipart, AutoShapes,
Sounds, Media, Movies, Play CD,
or Record Sound, Slides from Files
Toolbars - to open toolbars that
don’t appear in the program
• Format> Background, Bullets, Slide Color
Theme, Slide Layout
• Slide Show>Actions Buttons, Custom Animation, Slide
Transitions, Record Narration, Rehearse
Timing
Using Templates
• To use a Template, you can open it before starting
your presentation (File>Open)
• You can also apply a Template by selecting
Format> Apply Design Template.
• Navigate to the Template folder and
select the template you wish to use.
• As you add new slides,
they will be automatically
formatted with the
Template theme.
Using Backgrounds
• You can add a Background to one or all of your slides or
add different backgrounds throughout your presentation.
• To add a Background to your slide, click Format>
Background to bring up the Background dialog box.
• Click the down arrow (highlighted with red), then choose
fill effects.
• Select the Picture tab, then click the
select picture button
to navigate to the Background folder.
The Drawing Toolbar
Free Rotate:
Shadows
Rotates Objects
Text Color
Line
Arrow
Circle
360 degrees
WordArt Fill Line Style
Text Box Line
Color
Rectangle
ClipArt
Draw Options:
AutoShapes:
Grouping, Order, Lines, Connectors, Shapes,
Align/Distribute, Arrows, Flowcharts,
Rotate/Flip
Callouts, Action Buttons
Dash
Style
Arrow
Style
3D
Action Buttons Are Great
Enhancers to a Presentation
• To create Action Buttons, click on
AutoShapes on the Drawing Toolbar,
then select Action Buttons.
Action Button Options
•There are many different Action Buttons to
choose from.
Custom
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Sound
Movie
Document
•The next activity will deal with the
Sound Action button.
Using Action Button to Open
Sound Files
• Action Buttons are not
only used to navigate
from slide to slide, but
can be used for many
other functions. This is an
example of an action
button that when clicked
on, opens a audio sound
file.
Using Action Buttons,
AutoShapes, and Creativity Can
Spruce Up a Presentation
Elephant Sound
Donkey Sound
Creating A Customized Action
Button
• First create or insert the button you wish to
use (the button shown on the previous slide
is included on the CD).
• Click on the button to select it, then click
Slide Show on your Standard Toolbar, then
select Action Setting .
• Navigate to your folder where
your sound is located and
select it.
Adding AutoShapes
• You can add shapes by clicking on the
AutoShapes button on the Drawing Toolbar
and selecting the shapes submenu
• You can also Open the AutoShapes dialog
box by clicking Insert>Picture>AutoShapes
More
AutoShapes
Lines
Connectors
Basic Shapes
Block Arrows
Action Buttons
Callouts
Stars and Banners
Flowchart
Appearance of Clipart/Removing
White Background
• To remove white backgrounds in clipart,
first select the picture by clicking on it.
• Display the Picture Toolbar
(View>Toolbars>Picture).
•Click the Set Transparent Color button (outlined in red),
then click in the white are of your picture. Wa-lah!!!
The picture blends in much better now.
Changing Clipart Color
• It doesn’t take much to make me happy, however there are
times when I would like to change the look of my graphics.
• Select the clipart picture you want to use. I am going to give
a new look to the construction worker shown below.
• While your clipart is selected, click Edit, then select Picture
Object. This will break your picture apart to color.
•Click Yes when prompted to convert to Microsoft
Office drawing object.
Fill Color Options
• Click on the Fill Color arrow to display
the fill color options menu.
• Click on Fill Effects to give your
clipart a different color, gradient,
texture, pattern, and picture fills.
I definitely
need a new
look!!!!
Customized Clipart
• Fill Options Used:
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Pattern Fill on Shirt
Texture Fill on Pants
Changed Color on Shoes
Gradient Fill on Hat
Gradient Fill on Newspaper
Changed Eye Color to Blue
• Yes, you can even make your
brown eyes blue!!!!
Ooh, la-la!!
That’s a whole
lot better!!
Using a Picture Fill With
WordArt
WordArt Picture Fill
• Click on the WordArt button on the Drawing
Toolbar.
• At the WordArt Gallery dialog box, select the
style you want to use.
• Click OK to close the WordArt Gallery dialog box.
• Click on the WordArt to select it.
• Click on the Fill button on the Drawing Toolbar.
• Select the Picture tab.
• Click the browse button to navigate to the folder
where your picture can be found (I used the
American flag for my picture fill).
Combining Animated Graphics
and Sound
Inserting Cute Animated
Graphics is as Easy as Clicking a
Mouse
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http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/ani1.html
http://www.animationgrove.com/
http://d21c.com/AnnesPlace/School.html
http://www.artie.com/gif-anim.htm
http://www.redmond.k12.or.us/patrick/renz/filecabinet3
.htm
• http://www.rats2u.com/
• http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/animate.html
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Sound Files
There are several different sound files that can
be used in PowerPoint:
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Midi-a standard for representing musical
information in a digital format which can only be
placed in PowerPoint through the Insert Menu on
the Standard Toolbar (Insert>Sound>From File)
(The song on this slide is a midi file)
File Icon:
– Wav-is an audio file format that is commonly
associated with a voice component (song, sentence,
etc.) Can be placed in slide through the Insert Menu
or Slide Show>Custom Animation Menu.
File Icon:
(The next slide contains a wav file)
Adding Custom Sounds Makes
Presentations Unique
• Through the Slide
Show>Custom Animation
menu, inserting sounds can
be a snap.
• Just click other sound
from your drop down
menu, and you now have a
sound that is not normally
found in PowerPoint. Cool
huh!!!!
How to Put Custom
Sounds in Your Custom Animation
Drop Down Box
•From the Menu Toolbar, select Slide Show>
Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation
dialog box shown below:
Examples of Custom Sounds and
Custom Shapes Coupled with
Custom Sounds
You can cut off ever hair in
my head, but I aint telling
you ding, didly, ding, didly,
ding, dang, dong!!!
What’s
A COWBOY
another name
for a young bull?
Enhancing Presentations Using
Web Authoring Software
• Macromedia Fireworks
– Lets users import files from all major graphics
formats and manipulate both vector and bitmap
images to quickly create graphics and
interactivity
– Touch up photos with Replace Color and Red
Eye Removal tools
– Creates animated graphics with little effort
Enhance Presentations Using
Movies Created in Flash
• Two of the most powerful features in Flash:
– Motion Tween Objects to create movement
– Shape Tween Objects to change objects from one shape
into another, also called morphing
Instructions for Placing a Flash
Movie in PowerPoint:
• Click File on the Menu Toolbar in Flash,
and click Export Movie
• Make sure you select Windows AVI as the
file format
• Click Insert on the Menu Toolbar in
PowerPoint>Movies and Sounds>Movie
from File
Now That You’re An Expert…
• Well maybe not an expert quite yet, but we hope
that you can at least see the potential for adding a
personalized touch to present to your students
• As you can see, there are more ways to customize
and spice up your presentations and more details
than we can possibly cover in the time allowed
• Please use this information to go forward and use
your creative side to bring some “animation” into
your life.
There Is Room For Everyone…
• Whether you just want to:
• find some of the wonderful resources that are out
there…
• Build on or enhance your presentations….
• Or, Become An Artistic Master…
PowerPoint, sometimes in cooperation with Flash, and Fireworks can provide you
countless ways to drive home the information that our students need in a way that
they enjoy
If you have Questions for Us
• JUST KIDDING!!!!
• We’re all just an Email away.
Presenter E-mails
• Janann Nicholson
[email protected]
• Sandee Fleming
[email protected]
• Jonathan Decker
[email protected]
Thanks For Attending
ENJOY the remainder
Of the presentation and your day