Assignment 4: Power Point Project (July 3 & 7)

Power Point is an excellent program for presentating some instructional material, or for making a presentation at a professional meeting, or to a group of parents or your fellow faculty members.

July 3: 45 minutes

The instructor will demonstrate briefly the capabilities of Power Point.

Remainder of class: Work on the following Power Point Project

1. Either by yourself or with one or two others (your choice), pick a topic appropriate for the grade level or subject you teach, or plan to teach, or to the position you hold or plan to hold.

2. Develop a Power Point project relating to the topic you choose.

3. After you have done a very small amount of development, save your work. You must use "Save As" on the "File Menu" the first time you save a program. With the "Save As" command you will be prompted for a name for the program.

4. Continue developing and polishing this project for the remainder of the class.

5. Keep notes on difficulties, discoveries, surprises, and successes which you have while working on the project, and which you think might be helpful to others in the class.

6. Note: Each time you make a change, save your changed program to your disk. Otherwise, you may possibly lose some of your changes. Use the "Save" command every time after you save the first time using the "Save As" command. This will save the changed program in place of the previously saved program.

July 7

Demonstrate your project for the class on the big screen projector. Include in your demonstration any comments you have relating to difficulties, discoveries, and successes, and which you think might be helpful to others in the class.

Instructions on Power Point

Starting Power Point

1. Double click on the Power Point icon. (In our classroom, this icon is in the Power Point folder, which is in the Microsoft Office folder.)

2. Click on "Template." You can experimenmt with the Wizards later, if you like, but for right now, please stick to :Template." Note: If you are going to work on a project you have already started, click on "Open an Existing Presentation."

3. Click on "OK."

4. Choose the way you want your slides to look.

5. Click on "Apply."

6. Choose the type of layout you want for each slide. (You can change this from slide to slide--21 to choose from.)

7. Click on "OK." (This brings up the first slide.)

8. For each slide, go to the "Tools" menu and choose "Transition."

9. Choose the type of transition you want and choose the speed. Also choose whether you want to advance the slides automatically or by a mouse click.

10. Click on "OK." (This brings back the slide.)

11. Click on the slide to begin developing the slide.

Size and Color of Type

The size of the type is determined by the a and the a buttons near the top of the screen. The color of the type is determined by the button with the colors and the A on it.

New Slide

To get a new slide, click on the "New Slide" button at the bottom of the screen.

Layout

To change the layout of a slide, click on the "Layout" button at the bottom of the screen.

Drawing

To draw on a slide, use the drawing tools along the left side of the screen.

Listing Items One at a Time

1. For each slide, go to the "Tools" menu and choose "Build."

2. When the dialog box comes up, click on the items you want, and choose the type of effect you want.

3. Click on "OK." (This takes you back to the slide.)

Showing Your Slides

Go to the "View" menu and choose "Slide Show."