PowerPoint Offers:

Word Processing

Outlining

Drawing

Graphing

Presentation Management Tools

Beginning a Presentation

Click green Start Button.

Select: All programs

Select: Microsoft PowerPoint

New presentations

Select: Blank Presentation

REMEMBER: SAVE YOUR PRESENTATION TO AHARD DRIVE AND A FLOPPY FREQUENTLY.

Selecting Slide Layout & Font Color

Under apply slide layout:

Select top right-hand box

In text box type: Beginning PowerPoint

Change your font color

Select: Format

Select: Background

Choosing a Background

Pull down arrow menu.

Under standard color, choose a color.

Click: Apply (for single slides), ORApply to All (to keep all slides same colors).

Adding a Fill Effect

Select: Format

Select: Background

Choose: Fill Effects.

Choose: One Color. Select from pull down menu.(You may also choose two colors or preset colorsand you can make the color darker or lighter.)

Select: Shading Styles (choose among six.)

Other Fill Effect Choices

Choose among:

Texture,

Pattern, or

Picture.

Sample each.

Alternative Slide Design

Go to Format.

Select: Slide Design.

Choose among the many slide design templates available for use.

WARNING! BE SURE TO USE THE PULL DOWN MENU NEXT TO EACH TEMPLATE AND SELECTAPPLY TO SELECTED SLIDES OR YOUR ENTIRESLIDE PRESENTATION WILL CHANGE.

Choices While Creating Slides

At left side of your current working slide you will see:

Thumbnails or Outline of your slides.

Thumbnails: Shows thumbnails of the slides you have created.

Outline: Lists your slides by slide titles.

Working Slides View Choices

Below your thumbnails (or outline) are three small Icons which show:

1. Normal View (how your working slide and thumbnails or outline appear now, or

2. Slide Sorter View, or

3. Slide Show (from current slide).

Inserting Clip Art

Insert Menu:

Select: Picture, then choose Clip Art.

On search bar that appears in your right column,type: santa, then click Search button.

Click on first Santa icon.

Resize on your slide.

Clip ArtThere are two main ways to find clip art:

1. Clips on your computer (a clip art from a disk needs to have been added in order for you to find many examples, OR

2. Clip art from online sources.

Save your presentation, minimize it, then open yourbrowser (Internet Explorer).

Then, return to clip art and select Clips Online.

Downloading Clip Art

Clicking Clips Online (with browser on) will take you to Microsoft Office Online, Clip Art files.

Search for and select two or more examples of turkey.

Accept Microsoft Office’s conditions are download.

Go to Insert, Picture, Clip Art, then From File.

Select Microsoft Clip Organizer.

Insert clip art.

Clip Art

You may resize by placing cursor on the middle ofyour clip art and dragging it to where you want it, thenpulling at the outside corners of the clip art.

A pop up menu will appear. You may further changeyour clip art with it.

INSERTING SOUND

Go to the Insert Menu:

Select: Movies and Sound.

Select: Sound from Clip Organizer.

Choose first music box, select, and place speaker icon where you want (it won’t play until you select view slide show.

View Slide Show

To view your entire slide show,

Select:

Slide Show Menu

View Slide Show

Stop by clicking cursor in lower left corner and thenSelecting end show, or go back by selecting Previous.

PowerPoint Sites

PP Tutorials

www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm

PP Rubric Sites

www.artteacherconnection.com/pages/powerpointrubric.htm

www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/pptrubric.html

Photo Albums

www.brainybetty.com/powerpointpsshow.htm

www.microsoft.com/Education/PPT2003Tutorial.aspx

PowerPoint SitesPP Ideas

www.presentationhelper.co.uk/powerpoint_ideas.htm

www.issen.org.uk/news_powerpoint_ideas.htm

PP Game Shows for the Classroom

www.monroe.k12.la.us/~mhen/PowerPointProjects.html

Clip Art and Sound Sites

http://208.183.128.3/tutorials/pptr/resources.html

www.csc.calpoly.edu/~ebrunner/Sounds/PowerPointSound.html

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppsound.html