Bellingham School District
Revise--personalize--the Bellingham.ppt slide show.
A unique version of the Bellingham PowerPoint presentation
Include printout of notes page with details about the slides.
PowerPoint Basics Tutorial
Save in your H: drive—Your teacher may ask you to run the slide show OR demonstrate your knowledge of PowerPoint features
PROCEDURE:
Open Bellingham.ppt in S: TechConn/ Presentation*. Save a copy to your H: drive, adding your name in the file name, and open it. You will learn about PowerPoint as you make changes and add functions to this presentation.
- Explore Views in PowerPoint
- Briefly hold mouse pointer over icon to see the name of each view
- Click each
of the view icons to see different ways to work with
the presentation:
- Normal View – the work zone
- Outline View – change the text that appears on slides
- Slide View – work on a close-up of one slide. Select by clicking on the numbered slide icons on the left
- Slide Sorter View – thumbnails of all slides: drag and drop slides to change sequence
- Slide Show – use arrow keys, mouse clicks, or Enter to run the show, Escape to end
- Apply a different Design Template
- Select one of the slides numbered 2-7
- Go to Format>
Apply Design Template
- OR right click in the slide (not text box) for popup menu
- OR click the Common Tasks button at the right end of the formatting toolbar
- Select a design name and see it in the display window. PowerPoint offers over 40 designs!
- Choose a design that suits the Bellingham subject matter and click Apply
- PowerPoint changes every slide in the presentation to the design you choose
- Note the different color scheme of Slide 1 (applied to this slide only, for contrast & variety)
- Explore Slide Color Scheme
- Open
the Slide Color Scheme window (Format menu OR right
click)
- Take time here to experiment. Depending on the chosen Design Template, there are from 3 to as many as 8 different schemes using various sets of colors. Suggestion: to see the designs with the most schemes, try Citrus, Global, Soaring, or Sumi Painting
- The PowerPoint default—Apply to All—gives one scheme to all slides. If you click Apply, the selected color scheme is applied only to the selected slide
- Task for this section:
- Choose and apply a new Color Scheme for Bellingham.ppt
- AND
select a contrasting color scheme for one or two of the slides
- Choose related scheme colors—e.g., light and dark backgrounds of same colors
- SAVE your results
- Explore and change each slide in the presentation. Replace content if you wish, but keep 8 slides with similar features.
Notes:
- Changing the Design Template affects slide layout. Fix problems as you work on each slide: move, resize, etc., to balance layout.
- Features in slides may overlap. A right mouse click brings up a menu for the area you point to. If the menu you need doesn't pop up, move your mouse and click in another area.
| Slide |
Explore menus and toolbars |
Change... |
| 1 - Title Slide |
— Format> Font — Insert> Picture> AutoShapes, OR View> Toolbars: check Drawing — Slide Show> Custom Animation |
Title - add italics, shadow Banner – try a different AutoShape & add animation |
| 2 - Transportation List |
— Format> Bullets — Drawing toolbar> Rectangle, Line Style, Shadow, & 3-D
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Bullets – try another style Draw a border around the list and change border appearance If bulleted text is covered by shading layer, click Draw> Order> Send to back |
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3 - Getting to Work Chart |
— Right click in chart area: Chart Object> Open> Right click again for options:
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Show data in a Pie Chart and show data label and percent Add animations – Introduce by Category
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4 - Arts & Entertainment |
— Insert> Hyperlink — Insert> Picture> From File — View> Header and Footer: check Footer box, and paste the permission statement into the text box. Be sure to click Apply (to this slide only) |
Link the text to the Internet sites:
Find & insert museum photo from presentation folder*: WhatcomMuseum.jpg Paste the permission into the footer of this slide. (Open Copyright.doc in the presentation folder*. Find and Copy the museum permission statement) |
| 5 - Temperature Table |
— View> Toolbars: check Tables and Borders to use the toolbar — Work with:
— OR select table, right click, and choose Borders and Fill...: click on diagram to apply borders — Insert > Picture> AutoShape (or use Drawing toolbar) |
Add shading to rows for contrast of high & low temperatures. Work with the warm ( red, yellow, orange) and cool (blue, green) colors in your color scheme Change borders —color, width, and/or style Hint: diagonal lines (////) around the table show that a cell, row or column is selected. To select the whole table, click on the border again so that it is surrounded by dots (....) Add an arrow pointing to one data item |
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6 - Events |
— Insert > Picture> From File — Slide Show> Custom Animation — Choose Slide Show view to see the animation effect — View> Header and Footer: check Footer box, and paste the permission statement into the text box. Be sure to click Apply (to this slide only) |
Find & insert event logos (presentation folder*):
Drag & resize images to fit below names Add a different animation for each logo Paste the permission into the footer of this slide. (Open Copyright.doc in the presentation folder*. Find and Copy the logo permission statement) |
| 7 - Recreation |
— Insert > Picture> Clip Art — Slide Show> Custom Animation |
Replace with list of your choice Replace with Clip Art of your choice Use animation to sequence how words and images appear |
| 8 - Final impression |
— Slide Layout – Large Object – make it fill the slide by pulling corners. Note: Bellingham Bay photo used with artist permission. It could not be cropped to fit slide proportions, so background fill was used — Draw - Order - Choose Send to Back if one image covers another |
Replace with photo and message of your choice Change Word Art style and make sure it is visible against background |
- Final step: work with the Slide Show menu. Add these features:
- Slide Transitions
There are many ways to add Slide Transitions. The Slide Sorter View is one way. This graphic shows dropdown selection boxes for Slide Transition Effects and Animation Effects. Slide 2 is selected, and currently the boxes show No Transition and No Effect. Click the dropdown arrows for options.
- Action Buttons
Select a slide, then choose Slide Show> Action Buttons
After you Select a button, a plus sign + appears—place it where you want the button, click to add it, and pull its handles to the size you want. The Action Settings menu will appear with navigation choices for your button.
- Timings
Choose Slide Show> Rehearse Timings AND > Set Up Show. The dialog boxes offer choices.