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Welcome To PowerPoint
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Objective: For YOU to come away from this PD with something you can USE in your classes.
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What is it that we need to concentrate on?
Beginning PP Create slide/add animation & sound/add pictures Intermediate PP Printing 6 slides per page/screenshots/links
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Beginning PP Creating your first PPP Start PP Should see this
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Choose “Design Template”
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This will bring up choices of backgrounds
Find one you like Click “OK”
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Or another option You can choose “Blank Presentation” and choose a color, pattern, or picture for your background.
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Choose “Background” Choose “Fill Effects” or choose one of the colors
You can choose from Gradient, Texture, Pattern, or Picture
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If you choose “Fill Effects”
You can choose from Gradient, Texture, Pattern, or Picture
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This brings up the “New Slide” box
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
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Toolbars Toolbars can help you make your presentation more efficiently
Click “View” then “Toolbars” Be sure these are checked
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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
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Drag toolbar to the bottom
Drag others to the top
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Let’s add a title Click in the title box and type a title for your presentation
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This is 72 pt This is 66 pt This is 60 pt This is 54 pt
Be sure to make your text large enough for students to see. Keep in mind those with poor vision.
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Click here and type a subtitle, a byline, or subpoints
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To indent the points under the main point, use the TAB key
To get back to the main point level, press SHIFT TAB
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New Slide To add a new slide, click the New Slide icon in your toolbar
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Text Animation You should have clicked on the 2nd slide layout
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Find this icon somewhere in your toolbars
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The “Custom Animation” box will appear
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With your cursor in the title text box, pull down this box
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Sometimes text animation is distracting.
Only use it when appropriate
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Add Sound Pull the “No Sound” box down and choose a sound
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Choose an appropriate sound
Don’t use sound just for the sake of using sound
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The overuse of sounds can be very distracting.
Only use sounds when appropriate
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Press “OK”
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Adding a picture Let’s assume we want to find a picture from the internet
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Click images
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Let’s search for a picture of a Hershey bar
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Choose the picture you like best and right click the picture
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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”
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This will place your picture onto your slide
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On Your Own Finish this slide; create 4 more slides (total of 6)
Animate the text Add sound Add a picture
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Intermediate PP
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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.
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Choose “File”, “Print”
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Toward the bottom left, pull down that box and choose “Handouts”
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Let’s put 6 slides on our handout
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Screenshots Screenshots are pictures of what you see on your screen
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In order to copy what is on your screen, press SHIFT and the PRINT SCREEN KEY
This copies the image to your clipboard
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Go back to your PPP Right click on the slide where you want the screenshot to appear Click “Paste” Voila’
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I have right clicked and am ready to click Paste
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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
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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
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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.
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Find a website you would like to use in your presentation
Highlight the address Right click and COPY
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Type some text that has to do with the link
Kerry’s Page Type some text that has to do with the link Highlight it Right click Hyperlink
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Kerry’s Page Copy the address to the space provided or find it in the list Click OK
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My Webpage
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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
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Loop a presentation Slide Show Set up Show Loop continuously until ESC
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Finding additional backgrounds
Graphicsland InZones Website Estates Sonia Coleman
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Adding video Insert Movies and Sounds From file
Find your movie to insert into your presentation
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