Class 17 Notes

Class 17 Notes

(notes are in progress and are subject to change)

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How to Download the Trial Version of PSE6

Preview requirements for Presentation on Thursday, October 30.

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

Power Point Design

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.

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

Note to users of earlier PowerPoint versions:

The AutoContent Wizard is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Instead, you can create your presentation quickly and easily by using templates (template: A file or set of files that contains information about the theme, layout, and other elements of a finished presentation.). Office PowerPoint 2007 templates include different themes (theme: A combination of theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects. A theme may be applied to a file as a single selection.) and layouts. Templates give you a starting point and make it easier to complete your presentation quickly. You can modify a template's text and design, add a company logo, add your own images, or delete text or other content from the template.

Office PowerPoint 2007 includes built-in templates and you can download additional Office PowerPoint 2007 templates by going to Office Online Templates.

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: 17slides in computer skills assignment folder, file name: trinity, file type: .pptx)
Choose a ready-made Theme:
You like this layout
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
The new color scheme appears in the Themes window
All the other layouts will change as well:
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.

Creating a PowerPoint Presentation Using an Installed Template

Explore the installed template options - look at the photo album and the Quiz Show.

You decide that you will make a quiz show all about you using the template's True and False features

First Slide: The (your name) quiz show
Second slide - choose the template in which the answer will be True and insert your picture. The question is "This is me."
Insert another slide and this time the answer will be False - you choose the question
Insert a Simple Answer slide - Question is what is my favorite food? Type the answer
Last slide - What is the name of my dog, cat, sister - you choose. Type the names and rearrange - add appropriate clip art
Delete unwanted slides
Play slides, see how answers work
SAVE as quiz.pptx

Creating a PowerPoint Presentation From Scratch

This time you will create your own design in the folder named 17slides
First, open Photoshop Elements and make a simple logo using the custom shape tool - save as logo in the folder
file should be 2x2", use just one layer with layer styles, drop shadow, etc.
File => New => Blank Presentation
Create a Master Slide
Close Master View
SAVE AS (master, 18slides, pptx)
Slide 1 - My Academic Career
Slide 2 - classes I'm taking - layout
View the show, make any adjustments and Save as usual
From slide sorter view
- Insert slide (Common Tasks => New Slide)
- Move slide
- Delete slide

Inserting Music and videos:

Open the Guesthouse files in 17slides
Follow instructions in class
Insert shape on Master Slide Page - change to Normal view
Insert a hyperlink
Insert Rooster sound
Insert Movie
Find a new sound on the Internet
Find .wav, right click, and "save target as" in desired folder

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.

Homework:

Work on your animated GIF for your presentation (does not need to be complete until you present)

READ: Graphic Design Fundamentals ( I will be looking for these elements when I assess your presentation)

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 Tutorial on You Tube

Be planning your major PPT presentation on your preferred/selected field of study, due Thursday, October 30. Don't wait till the last minute!