Power Pointing Off The Beaten Path

PowerPointing Off the Beaten Path By: Alfred Toole, Jr.

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Program Description Are you tired of PowerPointlessness? Do you teach content that sometimes bores your students? Perhaps you just need a few more weapons in your teaching arsenal? If so, refresh your teaching during this interactive session as you're exposed to 3 interactive ways to sneak in fun with learning using PowerPoint. Teachers will start an interactive tutorial, a small mini movie, and a board game.

Contact Info: Alfred Toole, Jr. [email_address] 434-245-2720 www.portaportal.com Guest login: toolea1

At your school, Teacher rarely uses PowerPoint Teachers often use PowerPoint for review Students rarely use PowerPoint to create a project for another class Students often groan when they see PowerPoint

Black Out Reviews for Tests 4+ Computers in your room Uses Icebreakers Assesses Prior Knowedge Teaches at Risk Students 1st Year @ VSTE Uses Automatic Timer Uses Motion Paths Uses AutoShapes

Typing on a Slide AutoShapes Hyperlinks Picture Toolbar Action Setting Custom Animations Slide Master Sound

Typing on a Slide During a Presentation Go to the View menu, slide down to Toolbars , and then slide over to Control Toolbox . Click one time to display the toolbox. Click on the Text Box button (circled in red above). The mouse cursor turns into a crosshair. Click and drag diagonally to draw a text box. Must be in presentation mode and click inside the text box to type.

Changing the Font Size of the Text Box Right-click on the text box and select Properties . Select Font . After you select the Font Line , a control box appears at the right end of the font line (See Red ring). Click on the Control Box to bring up a font change menu.

Other Ways of Using Typing on the Screen

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Use With Graphic Organizers from the Diagram Gallery

1.) Which is NOT found under A ction Settings… for an A u toShape? 1) Format Object 2) Hyperlink to: 3) Mouse click 4) Mouse over

2.) Hyperlinks CANNOT be____? 1) Added to an AutoShape 2) Customized to a different color 3) Edited with a left click 4) Linked to another slide

3.) AutoShapes CANNOT be____? 1) Grouped and Ungrouped 2) Cropped and Brought to the Front 3) Resized and Formatted 4) Rotated and Flipped

4.) A sound file that usually plays in PowerPoint is____? 1) MPEG 2) MP3 3) RAM 4) WAV

5.) ____may enable you to remove the white background on Clip Art. 1) Setting Transparent Color 2) Formatting the Color 3) Cropping the Picture 4) Brightening the Picture

Examples of Student Work Romeo & Juliet Jeopardy Who wants to be a Sidewinder NFL Squares

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AutoShapes To activate the Drawing toolbar above, select View menu  Toolbars  Drawing . From the pull-up menu, choose the desired shape. When you select a shape, your cursor will become a crosshair (+) when you move it over the slide. Press and drag the cursor until the object reaches the desired size.

Formatting an AutoShape Right Click on the Object. Choose Format Aut o shape . Check out the ' Fill Effects ' options on the paintbucket menu.

Resizing and Moving Autoshapes Click on the "handles," in the same way used to format text boxes and images. Rotate the object by left clicking on the object and moving the green rotating handle. Tip: hold down the SHIFT key to move objects across a straight line.

3D & Duplicating Left click on the AutoShape From the Drawing Toolbar, Choose the 3D Style Left click on the AutoShape Press Ctrl-D Tip- Use Ctrl-D & the arrow keys to keep objects in relation to one another

Grouping AutoShapes Hold the Ctrl or Shift key down. Left click on all but one of the objects. Right click on the last one. Choose G rouping from the Drop down menu. Select G roup . To Ungroup, right click on the object. Choose Grouping from the Drop down menu. Select U ngroup . Tip: Use the Control key to select 1 object at a time in the order that you desire. Use the Shift Key to select multiple objects in a row.

Hyperlinks Active hyperlinks may take you to a different slide in the current presentation, different presentation altogether, a non-PowerPoint document, or even an Internet Web page. Run a program: this hyperlink action opens another program such as Microsoft Word or Excel.

Creating a Hyperlink Right-click on the object and select Hyperlink Select the destination or action (to link to another slide, choose “Place in this Document" and then choose the slide you want).

Click on the slanted A at the bottom of the drawing toolbar or click on I nsert  P icture  WordArt . Select a W ordArt style . In the Edit WordArt Text dialog box, replace “ Your Text Here ” with your text. Click OK and place it where you want it. Word Art

Common Ctrl Keys Undo an Action Ctrl-Z Redo an Action Ctrl-Y Cut Ctrl-X Paste Ctrl-V New Slide Ctrl-M Duplicate Ctrl-D Copy Ctrl-C Select All Ctrl-A

Other Ways of Using AutoShapes & Hyperlinks

Examples of Student Work Circuit Board Tutorial Airplane Tutorial Jeopardy Electricity Timeline

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Picture Toolbar Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture Works Cited

Image Control Menu Image Control - Provides options for changing the color and intensity of the selected graphic. Click on the text box to make it go away after it pops up Or the up Arrow to make it reappear. Works Cited Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture

Insert a Picture Menu Insert Picture - Opens the Insert Picture dialog box so that you can insert a graphics file. Click on the text box to make it go away after it pops up Or the up Arrow to make it reappear. Works Cited Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture

Crop Menu Works Cited Crop - Allows you to "cut away" part of a selected graphic. Click on the text box to make it go away after it pops up Or the up Arrow to make it reappear. Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture

Format Picture Menu Format Picture - Opens the Format Object dialog box which provides additional formatting options. Click on the text box to make it go away after it pops up Or the up Arrow to make it reappear. Works Cited Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture

Set Transparent Color Set Transparent Color - Enables you to make one color of a selected graphic transparent. Click on the text box to make it go away after it pops up Or the up Arrow to make it reappear. Menu Works Cited Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture

Reset Picture Reset Picture - Returns selected graphic to its original condition. Click on the text box to make it go away after it pops up Or the up Arrow to make it reappear. Menu Works Cited Image Control Insert a Picture Crop Format Picture Set Transparent Color Reset Picture

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Where Does Each Term Go? Menu Works Cited Set Transparent Color Reset Picture Format Picture Insert a Picture Image Control Crop 1 4 6 5 3 2

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Examples of Student Work Circuit Board Parts Airplane Parts Rocket Parts

Action Setting Mouse Over Right click on the object Choose the Mouse Over tab Select what you want to do Mouse Click Right click on the object Choose the Mouse Click tab Select what you want to do

Other Ways of Using MouseOvers

Motion Paths Right click on the object Choose Custom Animation Select Add Effect Choose Motion P aths Draw it where you want it to go

Grow / Shrink Right click on the object Choose Custom Animation Select Choose Grow/Shrink Choose Emphasis Under start, choose With Previous

Examples of Student Work Attack on Pearl Harbor Manifest Destiny Scarlet Letter 1960's to the Moon

Slide Master Click View  Master  Slide Master from the menu bar. Format it like a regular slide by selecting text formatting, bullet/lists formatting, adding background patterns and effects, and setting footers. To save the changes, click the Close button on the Master toolbar Tip- Action Settings May be added to the Slide Master.

Adding Sound From a File Click on Insert menu  Movies and Sounds  Sound from File In the Look in drop-down menu, specify the drive and folder where the sound file is located. In the file list, click the sound file you want, then click OK. PowerPoint may ask you whether you want the sound to play automatically or on mouse-click. If you choose mouse click, you will need to click the icon during the presentation to start it playing. Tip: Download and save the file on your computer, preferably in the same folder with your PowerPoint presentation.

Repeating / Looping a Sound Right click on the Sound Object. Choose Custom Animation . Click on the inverted Triangle . Choose Effects Options . On the Effects Tab, choose Stop playing after and type in a number. On the Timing tab, choose repeat and type in a number. Click OK .

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Common Ctrl Keys Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Y Ctrl-X Ctrl-V Ctrl-M Ctrl-D Ctrl-C Ctrl-A

X X X X X O O O O O How to play a sound over 3 slides How to Grow / Shrink an object How to do a Mouse Over How to Access the Slide Master How to Group Objects How to Format Auto Shapes Playable audio file in PowerPoint Shift vs. Control How to Remove the White Background

Automated Timer Sli d e Show  R ehearse Timings Click through your presentation

AutoShapes Hyperlinks Picture Toolbar Action Settings 5 Points 10 Points 15 Points 20 Points 25 Points 5 Points 10 Points 15 Points 20 Points 25 Points 5 Points 10 Points 15 Points 20 Points 25 Points 5 Points 10 Points 15 Points 20 Points 25 Points

5 Points What are 3 things that can be done to AutoShapes? Duplicated, Flipped, Formatted, Grouped, Hyperlinked, Resized, Rotated and Written Upon. Main Menu

10 Points What are 4 things that you can do when you Right Click on an AutoShape? Add Action Settings, Add Custom Animation, Add a Hyperlink, Add Text, and Change the Format Main Menu

15 Points How do you group 3 Autoshapes? Hold the Ctrl or Shift Key down Select two objects Right click on the 3 rd Choose Grouping & Click OK. Main Menu

5 Points True / False: Can Hyperlinks be added to AutoShapes? True, Hyperlinks can be added to AutoShapes, ClipArt & Action buttons. Main Menu

10 Points True / False: Hyperlinks can be edited. True, Hyperlinks can be edited by right clicking on them and choosing Edit H yperlink. Main Menu

15 Points What are 3 uses of Hyperlinks? Link to another slide in your document, Link to a WebPage, Link to another document or run another Program like Excel. Main Menu

5 Points What does the button below allow you to do? Crop a picture Main Menu

10 Points If the picture toolbar isn’t visible, how do you make it visible? Go up to V iew Choose T oolbars Choose Picture Toolbar Or Right click on the picture and choose Show Picture Toolbar Main Menu

15 Points How do you remove the White background found around some ClipArt Pictures. Right Click on the ClipArt Choose Show Picture Toolbar Choose the Set Transparent Color Click on the White Background Main Menu

5 Points What is one tab found under Action Setting that we discussed today? MouseOver & Mouse Click Main Menu

10 Points What are 2 things you can do with a Mouse Click or Mouse Over? Add a Hyperlink, Add a Highlight, Play a sound, and Run a Program Main Menu

15 Points True / False: Can Action Settings be added to the Slide Master? True, Action settings may be added to the Slide Master. Main Menu

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