Power Point Tutorial Power Point is a powerful presentation program but a relatively easy system to use. The menu of functions is much the same as in MS Word and some people even call Power Point “Glorified Word”. The following tutorial should provide you with the basic understanding and guidance to create a Power Point presentation of you own.

Getting Started We recommend that you print out the slides in this tutorial and then use them as a guide to do construct your own Power Point presentation. Go to “File”, Select “Print”, then under “Print What”, select “Handouts”, and under “Slides Per Page”, select “2” and then “OK” The above will allow you to print two slides per page while printing in a size that is easy to read. On most computers, Power Point is found as an Icon on the Desk Top or as a Program accessed by clicking on the start button. Click on “Start” Click on “Programs” Click on “Microsoft Power Point” The screen should look like the one in the next slide.

This is the screen that you will see when you open up Power Point Go to file and select New On the right hand side, Select “From Design Template” Go to the next slide in this presentation

Select a template Recommend that you start with “Blends” Click on it to select it.

This is the blends template We recommend it because the white background prints as transparent (no color). This saves your ink cartridge since a colored background would require the entire background to be printed in color for a transparency or hard copy printed on a color printer and it would print as a black background on a non-color printer (using up your black ink). Next, you will select a slide layout. Go to the next slide.

The next step is to select a Slide Layout I recommend that you start with the title layout. Click on it to select it.

This is the title layout. Click within this box and type a title Click within this box and add your name and a date Go to next slide to see sample results

Go to a “New Slide” and select the “Bullet” layout.

The slide should look like this. Go to next slide

Type your “Overview” statement here Type your Overview subtopics here Bullets Note the “bullet” format Click your mouse after the bullet symbol ( ) and start typing. Hit “Enter” key to begin new bullet.

While preparing your presentation, you have been in the presentation “draft” mode. To see your presentation full screen without the menu bars, you need to move to the “Slide Show” mode. To do this, you can go to “View” on the menu bar and select “Slide Show” or you can click on the slide show icon.

Using special effects- Slide Transitions and Bullet Animation Hopefully, you have noticed that the slides in this presentation have “transitioned” in from different perspectives rather than just appearing immediately. You can select how your slides “transition” in your presentations as follows: (go to the next slide)

Selecting a Transition Go to “Slide Show” on the top menu and select “Slide Transition”. Go to the next slide to see the transition choices.

Transition Selections For this slide, we have selected “Blinds Vertical” as our transition type. Note that you can also select the speed of the transition as well as how the transition occurs such as when you click the mouse or automatically after so many seconds which you also select. Click “Slide Show” to finish your selection and see the effect.* * How you “select” your transition may vary depending on which version of MS Office you are using but variation should not be significant. Go to next slide for “Custom Animation”.

Notice that there are five bullets on this slide. During the presentation, you may want them to come up one at a time instead of all at once. To have them come up one at a time: Go to the top menu and select “Slide Show” . Next, select “Custom Animation” Go to next slide

Using “Custom Animation First click on the bullet area vs. the title area Next, select “Add Effect”, then “Entrance”, and “Fly In”

1 2 3 4 5 This is the transition slide. After first mouse click After second mouse click After third mouse click 4 5 After fourth mouse click After fifth mouse click

My First Power Point Presentation Using Technology in the K-12 Classroom Educational Theorists Support of Technology Use Educational Technology Software Programs Technology Applications for the Classroom Assessment of Technology in the Classroom Try it, click your mouse five times

At this point, you have learned enough basics to do a Power Point presentation. Practice creating a New Slide, play with different Slide Layouts, change the size and color of the text/font and do some transitions and bullet animations. We will cover two more functions: Clip Art Hyperlinking Go to next slide

To insert clip art into your presentation, select “New Slide” from the top line menu and then select a new layout. Scroll down the “Slide Layouts” until you get to “Other Layouts” and select the one with text on one side and clip art on the other.

Your slide will look like this. Next, double click on the clip art symbol as directed. Go to the next slide.

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The clip art menu will appear The clip art menu will appear. Search or scroll down the right hand side until you find a selection that you like. Select it by double clicking on it. Go to next slide.

Now that you have your picture, just add the accompanying text. Go to the next slide for hyperlinking.

A Short Tutorial on Hyperlinking Hyperlinking allows you to link, during your presentation, to another file on your computer or to a specific location on the Internet and then return to your presentation. To set up a hyperlink, you highlight a word or a sentence that will serve, when clicked on, as the link to the file or Internet location. Go to the next slide

A Short Tutorial on Hyperlinking Setting up the hyperlink First may sure that you know the location the file or Internet Web site to which you want to link. For example, the Louvre Museum in Paris Next, select the word or sentence that you will use as the hyperlink.

Highlight the word/words and then place your cursor on the highlighted area and right click your mouse. The menu above will appear, click on “hyperlink. Go to next slide

This screen will appear. Type the Internet Web address here This screen will appear. Type the Internet Web address here. Go to the next slide.

Type in the Web Site, e.g. http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm and click “OK”. Go to the next slide

The highlighted hyperlink will be automatically changed in color and underlined to signify that it is a hyperlink. Go to the next slide

To test or use the hyperlink, first you must change from the draft mode to the “Slide Show” mode. Next place your cursor on the hyperlink words and double click. Go to the next slide.

….and you are immediately connected to the Web Site (note: you must have Internet access on the computer used for your presentation). You can surf the Louvre web site or click to a specific area. When finished, simply exit the site and you will be returned to the Power Point presentation at the point you left it.

This ends the Power Point Tutorial. Return to Unit 2 or continue to the Technology and Literacy Presentations