Power Point Story Telling

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Power Point Story Telling

• Using Power Point to learn about using PowerPoint

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Today

• Working with PowerPoint - seeing what you can do
• Design
• Animation
• Adding pictures or clip art
• Hyperlinks
• Planning a story
• Making the story in PowerPoint

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Menus
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Views
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Design

• Slide Design
• Slide Layout
• Slide Colour scheme
• Slide background

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Slide Design

• Easy to use
• Designs whole colour scheme
• Quick and easy
• Can change things as you go if you want to
• Apply to all or just the current slide

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Slide Design
Explore the possibilities
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Slide Layout

• Easy way to fit different things to the page
• Uses set layouts that can be changed
• Good place to start if you want to see how others
  organise a page

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Layout
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Layout Experiment
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Colour Scheme

• Choose a scheme you like
• Or build your own from the Custom tab

Explore the possibilities
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Backgrounds
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Format background

• Changing the background only
• Can be for one slide
• Can apply to all

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Format background

• Changing the background only
• Can be for one slide
• Can apply to all

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Format background

• Changing the background only
• Can be for one slide
• Can apply to all

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Format background

• Changing the background only
• Can be for one slide
• Can apply to all

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Format Background
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Format Font

• Format Font
• Mainly need to change colour
• Can change font, bold, italic etc as well

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Format Font

• Remember to select the text you want to change
  first
• Format Font
• Change all you want

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Animation

• Use the Slide Show menu
• Preset animations are easiest to use
• Custom animations give you most control
• Do not overuse

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Custom Animation

• Choose which part of the slide to animate
• Click Add Effect
• Choose whicheffect to use
• Click OK

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Custom Animation

• Tell it when to appear using the Start drop
  down box
• Use Property and Speed to change other things
• Explore

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Custom Animation

• Effect Options gives more control
• Text animation controls the words
• Timing sets a delay
• Effects lets you set how things come in and go out

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Adding Pictures

• Insert Picture
• From file if you want to use a picture rather
  than clip art
• Clip Art if you want the cartoon like clip art
  that comes with PowerPoint
• Explore

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Adding Pictures

• You can double click the picture symbol if your
  layout has one

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Hyperlinking

• Hyperlinks jump to other parts of the
  presentation, other documents or the internet if
  you are connected.
• Select the text or thing you want to hyperlink

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Hyperlink

• Insert Hyperlink
• Hyperlinks only work when the presentation is
  running

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Hyperlink

• The hyperlinking screen will open
• Click on the document tab to link inside this
  presentation
• Click on the Locate button

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Hyperlink

• Click on the little triangle that hides the slide
  titles
• You need to hyperlink to a slide title so every
  slide must have one
• Scroll to choose the title to link to
• Click OK
• Run the presentation to test the link

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Add a screen tip

• Select the hyperlinked word
• Use Insert Hyperlink to reopen the hyperlink
  box
• Click on Screen Tip to enter a screen tip that
  appears when the mouse is over the link

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Story Writing

• Choose a topic you know something about
• Brainstorm an alpha list to get plenty of ideas
  to use
• List letters from A to Z
• Get one fact or idea for every letter
• Some letters will have more than 1 idea
• Some will have none

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Story writing

• The start
• Something happens
• Exciting or scary part
• Ending

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Choose Your Own Adventure

• Needs more planning
• Like writing several little stories from the same
  start
• Needs an ending for each story
• Can loop back on itself to make it more
  complicated