Outline - PowerPoint Class
  1. PowerPoint Capabilities
    On-screen computer presentation, 35 mm slides, Black and White (or color) Overheads, Speaker Notes, Audience Handouts

  2. Speaking with an Overhead Projector
    Face the audience; looking also at monitor or slide
    Talk about the content; don't read off the slide
    In general, make what you say a bit different than what's on the slide
    Start with an overview slide, telling what the presentation's about
    Keep it simple, brief, and to the point

  3. OPEN A PRESENTATION: Office Button (open p15A-expansion)
    Note slide/outline pane, scroll bar
    Click Slide Show tab, then the options there
    Or use the F5 key - or Slide Show button

  4. Saving a presentation
    Office Button - Save as - PowerPoint Presentation
    Are you going to run it on another machine that doesn't have PowerPoint? Save as a Powerpoint Show.

  5. NEW PRESENTATION: Office Button - New
    1. Canned presentations, including designs and content (Listed under "Presentations" and others)
    2. Design Templates: The combined slide layouts (placeholders), theme colors, theme fonts, theme effects, backgrounds, styles, sometimes content. You can change each of those. (Office Button - New)
    3. Themes: The individual slide layouts (placeholders), coordinating colors, fonts, effects, and a matching background. Can be usedfor tables, shapes, and charts.
    4. Blank Presentation: you provide design and content
    5. Microsoft Video, Templates and Themes

  6. Changing text on the slides: Normal View Button, or Design Tab, Normal

  7. Inserting or deleting a slide: Home tab

  8. Making Changes to Themes: Design Tab

  9. Transitions and Animations: Animations Tab
    Transitions Group - Movement from slide to slide
    Animations Group - Movement on the slide

  10. Features: Try Slide Show -from Beginning
    Try the Restore / Maximize Window Buttons
    Check the Zoom Level

  11. Printing - Choose how to print:
    1. Individual slides - one per page
    2. Handouts for audience (several slides on one page)
    3. Notes pages for speaker
    4. Outline (text only)

  12. Project 6 - Possible Topics
    1. Procedures - How to do something
    2. General Descriptions and Overviews - 19th Century Poetry
    3. Events - e.g., Summer Vacation Trip
    4. Life Experiences - e.g., Growing up on a Farm, etc.