To go back.

At any time, you may press the “Esc” button at the top upper leftside of your keyboard to get out to move many slides backwards or forwards.

Remember: keep pressing the screen to move forwarda point at a time.

Edward De Leon

Notes:PowerPoint allows the instructor to bring in text in bullet forms or

brief statements for those students, who

cannot write as fast.

It also allows the point to sit there,

to ponder, if you will,

for the student.

The point/bullet can be introduced with

fanfare or just presented, and the instructor goes from there.

Your PC should look some like this

Go to the Start Button

Up to Programs then over to Microsoft PowerPoint

This first prompt slide asks you to select a preset Design Template,

Or, if you prefer, Blank presentation

PowerPoint has many design templates to select from, plus a preview

This is just one of PowerPoint slides templates

NOTE: If you select a template, it will be the same for your whole presentation.

Or select Blank presentation.

The rest of this presentation is on blank slides

I recommend this because I can choose backgrounds

You’ll get a screen like this: this is the working board

This shows youwhich slide you’re in.

These pull down menus are important to insert objects andto add other neat things.

So, I urge you to take five minutesto go to each menu.

Also, this task bar allows you tomanipulate text—take five minutes here too.

These icons lets you manipulate the slides—take five here.

This icon when clicked will start the slide show.

Let’s begin by adding a new slide

You may hit the icon or the Insert pull down menu.

It’ll ask youfor Autolayout.

Always choose this one.

If you need more slide view area, move the bars over and down withwith the mouse pointer

Or, use these icons to see the slides in various forms and layouts

Ok, a blank slide.

Let’s start adding stuff.

Descriptive Essay

click

I did this writing with the Text icon

I did this writing with the Word Art icon.

When you select the object, this box appearsto adjust it some more

You may want to insert clip artfrom your computer;

Use this icon.

Let’s insert a picturego to the Insert menuyou may have some objectsin Clip Art … or From File …—like a CD of art works.

Chose file …I have a CDin the (D:)

You many gothrough the list

of art objects—it gives a preview

Then hit Insert

It’ll look like this on your slide, however, if

you want it tobe a background instead

you need to select it in the Format menu.

Let’s make it a Background …

When you hit Background …You’ll get this optionGO to the down arrow

Then hit Fill Effects …

This is a neat place for backgrounds of all sorts and designs

Gradient,Texture, and Pattern are fun if you don’t want a picture.

But I want a picture--I hit Picture.

Here hit Select Picture …

Go to the same place, like before.

Select and hit Insert

It wants to confirm your choice.

Hit OK

Now, this is important. Do you want it on allyour slides or justOne?

I do them one at a time so I hit Apply.

And viola!

Hit screen to go on.

Hit the Text Box to add text

Position the Text bar anywhere.Preferably in light spaces if you’rewriting in black.

If you prefer to use text instead. . .

The Descriptive Essay

You notice some problems in the dark portion.

Use a different text color if it’ll help.

The Descriptive Essay

You may want the slide to come in a certain mannerFor this, use Slide Transition

Here, you are offered ways to slide your slide into the next position.

Select one--the Effect picture of thedog will show you howit will appear.

Or, you could Bold it or enlarge the letters

Let’s make the text animated

High light it.

…and select one of the options

You saw how I added pictures

Guess what, you can add sound (wav files) and movies (very short ones work well).

From a CD

This is a sample from the computer’s files

To insert a short movie clip from a CD do this.

Place the CD in the drive

Select the movie clip you want and hit OK

To add text from you disk or desktop click the

Start and open Word.

You have opened Word—you should know the rest.

When you have call up your document, high light all the document.

When you high lighted and copied it, hit PowerPoint on the task bar

Good description uses specific details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.Sight Sound Taste

Color? Loud/soft? Good? (What does “good” taste like?)Shape? Piercing/soothing? Bad? (What does “bad” taste like?)Size? Continuous off/on? Bitter/Sugary? Metallic?Patterns? Pleasant/un- Burning/Spicy? Shiny/Dull? Does it sound like . . . Does it taste like . . .Does it looklike anythingelse? 

Smell TouchSweet/Sour? Hard/Soft?Sharp/mild? Liquid/Solid?Good? (Like what?) Rough/Smooth?Bad? (Like rotten?) Hot/ColdNew? (New what?) Dry/oily?Leather TexturesPlastic Does it feel like …Does it smell like… Thinking critically to find a main impression. Focus: Think about you topic, and what its most intense quality is. Ask:

What do I think of first when I think of this topic?What are the first words that come to mind about it?What is the quality that best characterizes the topic to me?What do I want my readers to think about my topic?Can I think of sensory details that create that quality?Can I write a paragraph about that quality?

This is the rough copy.Here you start cutting andmoving text around

You can just pastelike I did here. Or . . .

Open a text block window to place the text in.

Good description uses specific details that

appeal to one or more of the five senses.

Sight Sound TasteColor? Loud/soft? Good? (What does “good” taste like?)Shape?Piercing/soothing? Bad? (What does “bad” taste like?)Size? Continuous off/on? Bitter/Sugary? Metallic?Patterns? Pleasant/un- Burning/Spicy? Shiny/Dull? Does it sound like . . . Does it taste like . . .Does it looklike anythingelse?

Once you have the text arranged the way you want to present it, let’s make it come in at different times instead of all at once.So you may talk about one point more than another.

High light the text, like here.

You may chooseicon already to go. Or…

Select Custom Animation

Here you select

I chose the text to Fly. How . . .?

From the

Make sure you checkthis box to make the textfly in a line at a time.

Lets say you want to change the order of bringing some point before another—use this. Highlight which you want first or second or third and move it with the Move arrows.

Good description

uses specific details that

appeal to one or more of

the five senses.

Sight Sound Taste

Color? Loud/soft? Good? (What does “good” taste like?)

Shape? Piercing/soothing? Bad? (What does “bad” taste like?)

Size? Continuous off/on? Bitter/Sugary? Metallic?

Patterns? Pleasant/un- Burning/Spicy?

Shiny/Dull? Does it sound like . . . Does it taste like . . .

Does it look

like anything

else?

This is very basic. You canExperiment.

Suppose you see something on the Web, but don’t like howit’s presented—you could copy and paste just enough to talk about it in class

Minimize this window and open the Web.

You see PowerPoint is still running.

Open Explorer or whatever browser.

As you can see the web is running too with PowerPoint, and I’m searching for informationon Description.

Use a search engine

Before I go any further, some information is copywrited.

You may not use it.

This site offers little to no help, dependingon what you want.

When you finish with the web, go back to PowerPoint.You may leave the web running to go back and forth, too.

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.stm

Suppose you have a presentation on, for example, sentence structureand you want to show more examples

Create a link on PowerPoint.

All I did was use a text box and wrote in the web address.

WWW.CNN.COM

Then I added a single space at the end to make it hot.

WWW.CNN.COM

http://209.192.157.149/main/econ3e/downloads/down_ppv.html

This is a site to down load a power point viewer, oryou may go into any search engine and type:

free power point viewerEither way, if you don’t have Power Point on your computeryou still need at least the viewer to see the slides if the presentation is emailed to you.

Use this to transport your short presentation via emailusing this option.

It would be handy if you have all your text you wish to present in MS Word, so

you would be able to just

copy and paste it to the slide.

       From there,

you can divide the text further, into

bits or

chunks of information.

       Bring in as much, or

little, to

keep the pace of your lecture going.

I have found out that

I can keep my students focused if

I keep bringing in bit and pieces

while I am talking.

       I put myself in

between the screen and

the projector,

for emphases—

it looks like I am on top of the information.

Quite dramatic.

      

By having pictures as background, I make little jokes about it.

        I remark about this is my backyard referring to a scenic picture.

        I would say, “This is my summer house on the cape.”

 

        This keeps my students active.

I bring in points to discuss after

I got their attention.

 

Presenting information in this fashion is,

I feel,

21st century teaching.

You should hear my students comment on my slides shows.

It really beats the overheads!

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