Class 18 Notes (notes are in progress and are subject to change)

Class 18 Outline

• learn PSE tools, continued - animating a gif
• use PPT design templates
• design your slides from scratch
• insert music and videos
• graphic design fundamentals for presentations
• folder is 18slides

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Hands-on: Animating a GIF File Using Photoshop Elements 6

"Build" an animation that you can use in your PowerPoint presentation

FYI - All My Faves

Prezi

Report on PSE6 Download

Presentation Guidelines for Thursday, November 3rd

Good Examples from Former Students

Graphic Design Fundamentals:

If you can master these fundamental concepts, your graphical treatments — from PowerPoint slides to Microsoft Word documents to company brochures — will greatly improve. And even if you will never be the one actually making (designing) the documents, you will be able to better judge what is good visual communication and what is not.

http://www.eirikso.com/2006/06/22/how-to-make-illustrations-even-if-you-cant-draw/

• We will be looking at how to use design templates, and how to design your slides from scratch. We will practice  with the Guest House files.

• You have been asked to made a presentation to a group of high school students who have been accepted to Trinity, are here on a college visit, and have not chosen a college yet. It's midnight and you have to give the presentation at 9am. You decide to use a built-in Theme and work in Outline View to edit the content
• Launch PowerPoint and choose New>Blank Presentation
• SAVE AS (Save in: 18slides in computer skills assignment folder, file name: trinity, file type: .pptx)
• Choose a ready-made Theme:
• You like this layout
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• But you want to make a quick adjustment to make the slide look more like Trinity Colors so you change the fuchsia to maroon. You go to Create New Theme Colors
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• The new color scheme appears in the Themes window
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• All the other layouts will change as well:
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• Add the following slides:
  • Slide 1: Your name, computer number, and class time - add this at the end and rearrange the slides
  • Slide 2  title: Why Choose Trinity with bullets: 
        Finding the right college
        A student's point of view
  • Slide 3 title: What to Look for with bullets:
        Academics
        Extracurricular Activities
        Residential Environment
        Intangibles
  • Slide 4 title: Academics
• You could continue...
• SAVE

Now change to outline view (tab on upper left)

• Make changes to the content using the outline view
  • Add items to the list
  • Change the order of items on the list
• Make changes now based on how the slides look
  • First change back to slide view
  • Choose 1st slide by clicking on icon
  • Go to Themes and try out several to make sure you have the one you like
  • SAVE
• Animate Slides simply
  • 
• Add speaker notes
  • Go to 1st slide (click icon)
  • Click to add notes
  • 
  • View => Notes Page to edit notes
  • 
  • Add notes to yourself such as:
    Congratulations on being accepted to Trinity...
    Ask students where they are from...
    Ask how students learned about Trinity...
  • You could scroll down to second slide and continue...
  • SAVE
• Go back to outline view and look through your slides
• To view show: Slide Show on menu => View show.
  (Click slide show icon on status bar to view the show. You will begin show with slide selected.)
  • Left click or space bar advances the slides.
  • Esc key gets you out of this view
• Consider SAVE as Web Page 
• Get some rest. If you have time in the morning, you can add animation and transition effects.

Slide Master/Inserting Music and Videos

• Open the Guesthouse files in 18slides
• Create a Master Slide
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• Close Master View 
• Follow instructions in class
• Insert a hyperlink
• Insert sound and video files
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• Insert Movie
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• Find a new sound on the Internet
• Find .wav, right click, and "save target as" in the same folder  as your presentation

FYI: Inserting pictures into Slide Presentations

PowerPoint works a lot like Word. Once the picture is on the slide, it doesn't matter where it came from. You can copy and paste a picture to your presentation. However, you should be sure that you see the picture and not a link to a website with the picture. You can use the Insert >> Picture from file to insert a picture that you already have saved.

• How to download picture from Internet
  • Surf to picture on the Internet
    • right-click on button
    • save picture  (browse to desktop, you can always move the picture later, if desired)
• How to insert downloaded picture to slide
  • Insert=>Picture

You can also use an animated GIF that you create, but you must "View Show" before it animates.

Death by Powerpoint

Homework:

1. Read the following links that are on the class web page. After reading the articles, make a blog entry with your reaction to the articles and advice for your classmates on their PowerPoint presentations. Make a list of five guidelines that YOU think are important - including what you find annoying about bad PowerPoint presentation.

Top Ten Slide Tips
Recommendations for Faculty on PowerPoint (presentation to TU Teaching and Learning Committee, also presented at EDUCAUSE Conference)
Really Bad Power Point - and How to Avoid It

PowerPoint on You Tube

2. Text: Chapters 12 & 13 (499-564) Creating Presentations

3. Be planning your major PPT presentation on your preferred/selected field of study, due Tuesday, November 3rd. Don't wait till the last minute!

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