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Office | Comment (0)Controlling your PowerPoint presentation
Pausing your PowerPoint Presentation
Suppose you want to stop your presentation for awhile, and you don’t want your students to be staring at the same old slide, getting bored and antsy.
Press the “B” key, for black. The screen goes black and the students are more likely to look at you (where you want their attention right now.)
When you want to return to the presentation, press the “B” key again.
Or you can use the “W” key to switch the screen to white, and then back again.
Moving back to a previous slide
Suppose you were clicking along and went right past a slide you wanted to show. Do you need to go back and start over? No.
Right click on the slide, and you’ll be given a number of options for moving around your presentation:
- Previous slide
- Next slide
- Last viewed
- Go to slide – click on this and you’ll see the titles of all your slides, so you can pick one
- End presentation
Wouldn’t this be handy when students ask questions after your presentation? But you must be in the presentation for this to work. If you have ended the presentation, just restart it and right-click.
Making your PowerPoints more Active by using a Virtual Felt Tip Pen
Do you wish you could add more variety to your PowerPoint presentations? Do you wish you could add answers as if you were writing on the blackboard or on an overhead? Well you can. Here’s how:
- 1. While in the Slide Show view (when you’re presenting your presentation), right click on your slide. Then click on Pointer Options, and then Ballpoint Pen, Felt Tip Pen, or Highlighter.
- 2. Your cursor is now a pen, and you can use it for writing, underlining, circling, and all those things you do on the blackboard (or with an overhead projector).
- 3. You can change the color of your pen by right clicking again; click on Pointer options and then Ink Color, then on the color you want.
- 4. When you’re done with the presentation, you’ll be asked if you want to keep all your markups (so they show the next time you give the presentation). Probably, your answer is “No.”
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PowerPoint Resources for Teachers
Powerpoint Resources on the Internet
- o Powerpoint presentations created by teachers – maybe you could find one that’s useful
http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-la.html Has by grade level and subject
- o Microsoft Powerpoint tutorials
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/default.aspx
- o Gettysburg powerpoint. A funny reminder to avoid the banal in your PowerPoints. http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
- o Website for sharing presentations
- o Powerpoint activities (jeopardy-style games for review.)
Elementary oriented, but you may find some helpful ideas here.
http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm
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Basics of Creating a PowerPoint Presentation
Your personal cheat-sheet
- 1. Decide what you’re trying to communicate. Hint: What overheads would you use? Or if you wished you could use 35 mm slides, what would your presentation look like?
- 2. At minimum, you’ll need a title, an introduction of what you’ll cover, content, and a conclusion/wrap-up. You might want to consider, do I want to close with a question for students to consider?
- 3. When you open PowerPoint, you will be at a new, blank presentation. The first page is automatically a title page. Create a working title; you can always change it later. Click in the spaces provided to enter text.
- 4. Add a new slide; click on “New Slide” on the Home tab. . It will default to a standard slide format as shown below. You can add a title to the slide, and can add text in bullet point form. You can also add pictures (see below for more on that).
Think about what text you want to include. You can modify your format by clicking on Layout on the home tab. There are many layouts and if you don’t like one, you can change to another easily.
- 5. Think about what you want your overall presentation to look like. Click on the Design tab, and explore the basic “themes.” Play around until you find one you like. You can always change it later, and can even delete the background for individual slides if you decide you want to.
- 6. What else would you like to add? Pictures? You can cut and paste from other applications. You can also insert quite a number of different media. Click on the appropriate medium shown below and you will be prompted to enter the location for that particular item.
- 7. Bells and whistles you may want to consider include transitions from slide to slide, sounds, and “animation.”
Transitions from slide to slide are on the Animations tab. You can control speed and associated sounds of transitions here. Click on the arrow in the lower right-hand corner for many more transition options.
Custom animation, also on the Animations tab, provides many, many effects. Click first on the item you want to “animate,” then on “Custom Animation” on the Animations tab. When you click on Add Effect, you’ll have many options to choose from.
- 8. Now, test your presentation. The SlideShow tab is where you can most easily control your show. You have many options here. To see the entire show, click on “from beginning.”
Consider: how will you present your show? Consider alternatives. You could link your computer to your TV using a special cable (ask Anthony how to get one). You could use a projector tied to your computer (sign out from the library). In a pinch, you can have students crowd around your monitor.
Also, how will you make the presentation available to students who are absent? Possibilities include Handouts (Print and identify handouts. You can use Preview to see if you’re getting what you want. Click on “Properties” in the Print dialog (partly shown at left) so that you can select “print color as black and white” for slides that are easier to read.
You can also modify what’s on handouts within the View tab (click on Handout master).
Post to Edline. Edline can’t accommodate the huge files of PowerPoint, but you can Publish to a Word document (Microsoft Office button, top left-hand corner) and post the Word document to Edline, just as you’d post an assignment sheet. Note that these files are still large, due to the graphic material included, and will take awhile to load up to Edline, and also for users to download from Edline.
