Documenting Your Work Show us How you did it!

What is documenting your work? Documenting your work means recording the process so others can see how you did it. Sometimes you use digital photos to document the process Sometimes you use video clips to document the process Sometimes you use screen captures to document the process.

Documenting your work with Photos Use photos and callouts to explain the process. Tell us about the steps you took to reach the finished product

Videos are a great way to document your work!

Using Video Clips Open your video by double clicking on the .MOV file. Use “Alt + PrtScn” to take a screen capture of the video player. Paste the Screen Capture into your PowerPoint slide.

Adjust the size and position of the screen capture Right click on the screen capture and select hyperlink Hyperlink the video to the .MOV file in your LEARNERS DRIVE!!!

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Documenting your work with screen captures Here you can resize your photo. A good size for most PowerPoints is a width of 600 pixels or so.

We set the pixel width to 130 then clicked OK. We opened our picture in IrfanView and selected resize/resample from the image menu We set the pixel width to 130 then clicked OK.

Now our picture is a thumbnail

Documenting your Work with Callouts Yee-haw callouts! Documenting your Work with Callouts A callout is a bubble with an arrow that points to an item on your slide. Callouts are great ways to highlight specific photos/screen captures or sections of photos and screen captures. I’m a callout! So am I! Woo-hoo! Yeah callouts!

Documenting your Work with Callouts To insert a callout click shapes and then go to the very bottom and select a callout design. To insert a callout click shapes and then go to the very bottom and select a callout design. This feels weird making callouts about callouts!

Documenting your Work with Callouts To type in the callout, just click in it and start typing! To change the size of a callout, drag the boxes on the edges. To change the color, or other properties, right-click and select format shape. To change where the pointer goes, click and drag the yellow box at the end of the callout