PowerPoint Assignments 02-05: (plus more help with PowerPoint)

In order for you to receive credit for the PowerPoint section of this class you will need to create at least four (4) additional different PowerPoint presentations. You should have already completed the first PowerPoint lesson.

¨      Of the four presentations, two (2) must be timed lasting no longer than two (2) minutes in length. Furthermore, the timings must be sufficient for a person to read without feeling rushed.

¨      Of the four presentations, two (2) must have some sort of graphical element added. At least two (2) graphical elements per presentation.

¨      All the presentations must have some kind of transition between the slides.

¨      All the presentations must have different backgrounds from each other. For example, all the slides in presentation #2 can be the same. They just can’t be the same as in presentations #3-5.

¨      Each presentation will be graded on a 100 point scale.

¨      Each presentation must have a minimum of eight (8) slides each.

¨      Each presentation should have at least two (2) different fonts each.

¨      All grammar, punctuation and spelling need to be checked. (standard 5 point penalty for each infraction)

Some ideas for presentations:

Ø      Things new students to the school should know and why.

Ø      Things sevies should know and why.

Ø      Book report – include characters and characterization, plot, setting, point of view, mood, tone, style and opinion.

Ø      A Poem.

Ø      Slides for a TV style quiz show giving question, multiple-choice answers and the final answer.

Ø      Presentation for some class project such as results from a science lab or the final calculations for a math problem or concept.

Ø      An imaginary sales meeting.

Ø      List of presents for Birthday or Christmas and the reasons why you should receive them. (“Because I’ve been good” should not be on every slide and is not a sufficient enough reason.)

Ø      Leading a meeting.

Ø      An imaginary business progress report. (You could use information from either your 3-fold flyer or newsletter)

Ø      A comic book.

Note: It is possible to copy graphics from Microsoft Word into PowerPoint.  

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Some terminology you should know.

ü      Slide: An individual screen in a slide show.

ü      Presentation File: The file you save to disk that contains all the slides, speaker's notes, handouts, etc. that makes up your presentation.

ü      Object: Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips. You can refer to a clip art object, a text object, a title object, a drawing object, etc.

ü      Slide Show: A series of slides displayed in sequence. A slide show can be controlled manually or automatically.

ü      Transition: A special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show. For example, you can fade in from black, or dissolve from one slide to another.

Info on Toolbars: (some of these might apply to PowerPoint 97)

v      The Standard Toolbar is located at the top of the PowerPoint window, below the menu bar. It has buttons for common tasks such as saving, printing, checking spelling, and inserting charts and tables.

v      The Formatting Toolbar is located just below the standard toolbar. Most of its buttons are for formatting text. Use these buttons to change the font type or size, make text bold or italic, indent text, and insert bullets.

v      The Drawing Toolbar is located at the bottom of the PowerPoint window. It has tools for drawing shapes, adding lines and curves, and inserting text boxes and WordArt. It also has buttons for manipulating and formatting the objects you draw.

v      The Common Tasks toolbar is initially a floating toolbar. That is, it isn't anchored to an edge of the PowerPoint window. Use this toolbar to create a new slide, change the layout of a slide, or apply a design.

Note: If you can't see the Common Tasks Toolbar, you can make it appear using these steps: Click the View menu, point to Toolbars, then click the check box beside Common Tasks. A check mark indicates that a toolbar is activated.

Moving the toolbars to new locations
All PowerPoint toolbars can be moved or docked to any side of the PowerPoint window. As well, docked toolbars, including the Standard Toolbar, the Formatting Toolbar, and the Drawing Toolbar, can be converted to floating toolbars.

A move handle on the left or top of the toolbar indicates that the toolbar is docked. A title bar indicates that the toolbar is floating.

Here's how to move one of the toolbars to a new location:

1. Click the move handle on a docked toolbar, or click the title bar on a floating toolbar.

2. Holding down the mouse button, drag the toolbar to the new location.

Docking a toolbar
Try docking the Common Tasks toolbar to the top of the PowerPoint window. This will give you more working area on your PowerPoint window.

1. Click the title bar on the Common Tasks toolbar.

2. Drag the toolbar upwards, until the toolbar outline snaps into place along the edge of the program window.

If you see move handles on the toolbar, you know it is successfully docked.

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Slide: An individual screen in a slide show.

Presentation File: The file you save to disk that contains all the slides, speaker's notes, handouts, etc. that make up your presentation.

Object: Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips. You can refer to a clip art object, a text object, a title object, a drawing object, etc.


  Slide Show: A series of slides displayed in sequence. A slide show can be controlled manually or automatically.

Transition: A special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show. For example, you can fade in from black, or dissolve from one slide to another.

The Standard Toolbar is located at the top of the PowerPoint window, below the menu bar. It has buttons for common tasks such as saving, printing, checking spelling, and inserting charts and tables. 

The Formatting Toolbar is located just below the standard toolbar. Most of its buttons are for formatting text. Use these buttons to change the font type or size, make text bold or italic, indent text, and insert bullets.


 


 

The Drawing Toolbar is located at the bottom of the PowerPoint window. It has tools for drawing shapes, adding lines and curves, and inserting text boxes and WordArt. It also has buttons for manipulating and formatting the objects you draw.

The Common Tasks toolbar is initially a floating toolbar. That is, it isn't anchored to an edge of the PowerPoint window. Use this toolbar to create a new slide, change the layout of a slide, or apply a design.

 

Note: If you can't see the Common Tasks Toolbar, you can make it appear using these steps: Click the View menu, point to Toolbars, then click the check box beside Common Tasks. A check mark indicates that a toolbar is activated.

Moving the toolbars to new locations
All PowerPoint toolbars can be moved or docked to any side of the PowerPoint window. As well, docked toolbars, including the Standard Toolbar, the Formatting Toolbar, and the Drawing Toolbar, can be converted to floating toolbars.

A move handle on the left or top of the toolbar indicates that the toolbar is docked. A title bar indicates that the toolbar is floating.  


 

Here's how to move one of the toolbars to a new location:

1. Click the move handle on a docked toolbar, or click the title bar on a floating toolbar.

2. Holding down the mouse button, drag the toolbar to the new location.

Docking a toolbar
Try docking the Common Tasks toolbar to the top of the PowerPoint window. This will give you more working area on your PowerPoint window.

1. Click the title bar on the Common Tasks toolbar.

2. Drag the toolbar upwards, until the toolbar outline snaps into place along the edge of the program window.

If you see move handles on the toolbar, you know it is successfully docked.

 

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