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Preview requirements for Presentation on Tuesday, April 1.

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:

• 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
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• 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 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
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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 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. Be wary about copying and pasting a picture to your presentation from the Web. It may be a link to the 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

Homework:

Part 1. Read the links for today 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.

Part 2. See Major PowerPoint Presentation description below. Begin planning and researching your topic using the search techniques you learned from Benjamin Harris and Chris Nolan. Make a blog entry describing briefly the topic you have chosen. Be prepared to make your presentation on Tuesday, April 8th.

Major PowerPoint Presentation

Complete Power Point presentation and be ready to present it on Tuesday, April 1. See guidelines, below:

Using Microsoft PowerPoint, create a presentation with 4 or more slides to explain a concept in your area of major academic interest. This is a presentation that will show prospective students why your chosen area is worthy of pursuit. Topics could include such things as:

• scientific process
• historical event
• biography of a world figure
• work of literature or art
• etc.

For example, if your area of interest is Organic Chemistry, you might do a four-slide presentation on the importance of the discovery of DNA and how that discovery has changed today's world.

Your presentation should include:

• Title slide
• Title slide should have
  • an appropriate title such as the name of the Website or the subject
  • your name, computer number and class time 
• graphics - if you use clip-art, make it yourself, you may use images from web, screen captures of Web, photos, etc. being sure to following copyright laws and material you learned from Diane Graves.
• a hyperlink to a Website  you used in your research
• complete notes for each slide to indicate additional information you would present verbally with the slide (2 minute presentation)
• a bibliography slide listing your source correctly cited (MLA style shown below)
• use additional features as dictated by your topic
• Excellence of design

The file containing your presentation should be:

• named presentation
• file type .ppt or.pptx
• inside "Presentation" in the a folder named 19slides in your computer skills group folder.

Be prepared to make a two minute presentation of your topic on Tuesday, April 8.

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