ESL PowerPoint Demonstration

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ESL PowerPoint Demonstration

• The Effective Use of Presentation Software in the
  ESL Classroom
• By Daniel Craig
• University of Illinois
• ESL 401 J

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Beginning A New Presentation

• First open a new presentation, if it PowerPoint
  doesnt open one automatically.

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Now You Have a Choice

• You could have the program help you develop a
  presentation, but thats not fun.
• Choose Blank Presentation under the General
  tab.

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Click to add title

• Click to add text

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Add a Title to Your Presentation

• Now its time to add text to your presentation.
• Develop a presentation, which could be used in a
  101 class in one of the fields represented in
  your group.
• Teach a basic idea briefly (about 5-10 slides)

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Playing With Fonts (1)

• Adjusting the Font values, is the easiest way to
  make a presentation appear more interesting.
• Using the font tool bar is probably the method
  that you know the best.

• This bar allows you to change some of the
  basic formatting of the fonts.

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Playing With Fonts (2)

• The drawing toolbar on the bottom of the program
  is also helpful.

• It allows you to easily manipulate font colors
  and various drawing tools

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Playing With Fonts (3)

• Of course the most powerful tool is accessed from
  the Format pulldown menu.
• Choose Font and this will open a new window.

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Playing With Fonts (4)

• With this window you can do many things with your
  fonts.
• You can choose the font style, font size, color,
  bold, italics, and some special effects
  underline, superscript, subscript, etc.

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You Can Also Add Backgrounds

• First go to the Format pulldown menu.
• Click Background.

• Click the drop-down box on the bottom.

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Backgrounds (2)

• Then click Fill effects.
• Here is the new window you will see.

• Here you have many choices on how to fill-in your
  background. I chose the Picture tab.

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Backgrounds (3)

• If you want to insert a picture, click on the
  Picture tab.
• Then click Select Picture.
• You will then be able to choose a picture from a
  file on your computer or diskette.

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Adding Special Effects (1)

• Im sure youve seen seen interesting special
  effects on PowerPoint Presentations.
• You can add these easily and yet they add so much
  more interest to your presentation.

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Adding Special Effects (2)

• You dont have to have those annoying sounds.
  You can just use the animation.
• Press the Animation button on the tool bar
  above.

• Put the curser over a button, and you will see a
  comment pop up and tell you what that button does.

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Presentation Slide Show

• Click on the Slide Show pulldown menu.

• Then click on View Show
• This will automatically begin the slideshow,
  which will take up the entire screen.
• What youre seeing now is the slide show.

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Slide Show Navigation (1)

• You can use the left/right arrows on the keyboard
  to move forward backward.
• Or you can click on the button shown faintly on
  the bottom left side of the slide show

or click the right mouse button anywhere on the
screen to see this menu.
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Slide Show Navigation (2)

• Next and Previous are rather
  self-explanatory.
• Go will let you go to any slide in your
  presentation.

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Using the Pointer Pen

• By clicking on Pointer Options you get a nice
  little surprise.

• Using the Arrow just gives you something to
  point with.
• The Pen will let you draw on the slide show,
  which is really cool!