Welcome

To

PowerPoint

Objective:

 For YOU away from this PD with something you can USE classes.

to come in your

What is it that we need to concentrate on?

 Beginning PP

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 Create slide/add animation & sound/add pictures

Intermediate PP

 Printing 6 slides per page/screenshots/links

Beginning PP

 Creating your first PPP  Start PP  Should see this

 Choose “Design Template”

 This will bring up choices of backgrounds  Find one you like  Click “OK”

Or another option  You can choose “Blank Presentation” and choose a color, pattern, or picture for your background.

 Choose “Background”   Choose “Fill Effects” or choose one of the colors You can choose from Gradient, Texture, Pattern, or Picture

 If you choose “Fill Effects”  You can choose from Gradient, Texture, Pattern, or Picture

 My experience has been to choose either of the first two layouts. This will give you fewer headaches.

 This brings up the “New Slide” box

Toolbars

 Toolbars can help you make your presentation more efficiently   Click “View” then “Toolbars” Be sure these are checked

 If toolbar boxes appear, click and drag the boxes to the top or bottom so you won’t have to move them all the time

 Drag toolbar to the bottom  Drag others to the top

Let’s add a title

 Click in the title box and type a title for your presentation

 This is 36 pt This is 40 pt Be sure to make your text large enough for This is 60 pt

This is 66 pt

This is 72 pt

 Click here and type a subtitle, a byline, or subpoints

  To indent the points under the main point, use the TAB key To get back to the main point level, press SHIFT TAB

New Slide

 To add a new slide, click the New Slide icon in your toolbar

 You should have clicked on the 2 nd slide layout Text Animation

 Find this icon somewhere in your toolbars

 The “Custom Animation” box will appear

 With your cursor in the title text box, pull down this box

 Sometimes text animation is distracting.

 Only use it when appropriate

 Pull the “No Sound” box down and choose a sound

Add Sound

 Choose an appropriate sound  Don’t use sound just for the sake of using sound

 The overuse of sounds can be very distracting.

 Only use sounds when appropriate

 Press “OK”

Adding a picture

 Let’s assume we want to find a picture from the internet

www.google.com

Click images

 Let’s search for a picture of a Hershey bar

 Choose the picture you like best and right click the picture

 Choose “Copy”  Go back to your PPP to the slide where you want to put your picture  Right click on the slide (not inside one of the text boxes)  Choose “Paste”

This will place your picture onto your slide

On Your Own

 Finish this slide; create 4 more slides (total of 6)  Animate the text  Add sound  Add a picture

Intermediate PP

Printing 6 slides/pg

 I used PP everyday in my classroom. When I had to be absent, I would make the PPPs in advance and make handouts to give to the students.

 Choose “File”, “Print”

 Toward the bottom left, pull down that box and choose “Handouts”

 Let’s put 6 slides on our handout

Screenshots

 Screenshots are pictures of what you see on your screen

 In order to copy what is on your screen, press SHIFT and the PRINT SCREEN KEY  This copies the image to your clipboard

 Go back to your PPP  Right click on the slide where you want the screenshot to appear  Click “Paste”  Voila’

 I have right clicked and am ready to click Paste

 You may have to resize your screenshot after it is pasted onto your slide    Find the “handles” on the corners of the picture frame Click and hold down Move the mouse to make the picture smaller

Why would I want screenshots?

 You can show your students exactly what to do/where you are in a program  Gives visual cues as to where they should be

Links

 Making links to web addresses  This will allow you to have a little control of where you want your students to go on the net.

 Find a website you would like to use in your presentation  Highlight the address  Right click and COPY

 Type some text that has to do with the link    Highlight it Right click Hyperlink Kerry’s Page

Kerry’s Page  Copy the address to the space provided or find it in the list Click OK

My Webpage

 http://www.clark.k12.ky.us/trt/k erryelliott/

Use CD music for presentation  Insert  Movies & Sounds    Play CD Audio Track Choose the proper track Check the “loop” option if you want your music to loop

Loop a presentation  Slide Show  Set up Show  Loop continuously until ESC

Finding additional backgrounds     Graphicsland InZones Website Estates Sonia Coleman

Adding video  Insert   Movies and Sounds From file  Find your movie to insert into your presentation