The wurster, the better

We covered:

1. How can you view your presentation?
• Normal
• Slide
• Outline

2. Animation
3. Transition
4. Adding clipart, digital images, sound bytes, video clips
5. Rehersing your presentation
6. Event Buttons
7. Masters

• Title
• Slide
• Notes
• Handouts

8. Printing your presentation – choosing different things to print

I think the use of the overhead projection system helps with the class a lot. What do you think?

Here are some of the things we covered:

1. What is a presentation? It is a set of slides (not pages) that you would use typically to project on a screen to use while you are giving a talk to a group of people.
2. When would you use a presentation?
• when you are giving a talk to a church group or other organization, for example
• if you are a teacher, to help you with teaching your students a particular topic
• in a business environment, to help an employee learn something about the employee benefits that the company has
• if you are participating in a product show or exposition, you might want to make a kiosk on which to explain what your product does
• help someone learn about a particular topic by making an interactive presentation, allowing the user to make choices while viewing the presentation
3. Different views of your presentation.
• normal
• outline
• slide sorter
• slide show
4. Slide layouts.
5. What can be put on a slide? Different kinds of objects:
• text
• clipart
• pictures (from your digital camera or from files you may have found on the Internet)
• audio clips
• movie clips
6. Design is very important in a presentation so that your audience is attracted to what you are trying to tell them.

7.

1. Getting Started with a Presentation

a. Opening a presentation

b. Opening an existing presentation

c. Changing your view of a presentation

d. Saving your work

e. Exiting

2. Slides

a. Creating slides

b. Changing the order of slides

c. Rearranging text using the Outline view

3. Using Templates

a. Applying a new template

4. Using Masters

a. Editing the slide master

b. Editing the handout master

c. Editing the notes master

d. Overriding the master style on a single slide

5. Adding Text

a. Introducing text boxes

b. Aligning paragraphs of text

c. Finding and replacing text

d. Spell checking

6. Making the Text Look Presentable

a. Formatting text

b. Numbering lists

c. Bulleting text

7. Getting Visual

a. The drawing toolbar

b. Drawing lines

c. Drawing by using AutoShapes

d. Adding WordArt

e. Adding ClipArt

8. Manipulating Your Multimedia

a. Adding movies and motion clips

b. Adding sound

9. Making a Graph

a. Creating graphs

b. Using tables

10. Planning the Presentation

a. Adding action buttons

b. Adding slide transitions

11. Showing Off Your Work

a. On your computer

12. Publishing Your Presentation

a. Printing audience handouts

b. Publishing on the web

Creating an outline in MS Word is pretty simple. Under the View menu, select Outline. When I did this at home, I found that this feature was not yet installed on my computer. I clicked the OK button to install. It required my application CD.

Once the installation was complete, I selected View-Outline. An empty document was created with the Outline toolbar activated. I created an outine. I saved the file (just a simple Word document). Then I opened the file in MS PowerPoint. Presto! A presentation was created. All I had to do was to apply a design to it to change it from black and white to something more pleasing for the eye.

Give it a try. You’ll find it is easy.