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Constructing a PowerPoint 2000 Presentation About Diaspora Women Resources Web Folder: http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/powerpoint_tutorial/resources http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/ Step 1: Getting Started YOU MUST BE VIEWING THIS WEBSITE IN INTERNET EXPLORER IN ORDER TO CONTINUE! Click on Start in the lower left of the screen, glide up to Programs, select Microsoft PowerPoint, and click on it to choose the program. If you get a tip of the day, click OK. If not proceed, to the next step. On the right side of the screen, select AutoContent Wizard and click OK. Once in the AutoContent wizard, press the Next button to continue. Select the General button to narrow down the selections of templates from which to choose. Highlight Generic and click Next to continue. Choose Onscreen Presentation and click Next. Enter the information as follows: Presentation Title: Diaspora Women Click on Finish and you have successfully created a slide show. Step 2: Adding Content What appears on your screen is the title slide for your presentation. On the left side of the screen is the outline view of your presentation, which includes the nine slides you just created. We now want to add some information to our presentation. To begin, click on the number two in the outline on the left side of the screen. Now let’s add new information to the slide. If you would like to change the layout of the slide, click Format ...

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• Publié par: Ucte
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English

Extrait

Adapted by Leslie Shagon

11/4/03

Constructing a PowerPoint 2000 Presentation

About Diaspora Women

Resources

Web Folder:

http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/powerpoint_tutorial/resources

http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/

Step 1: Getting Started

YOU MUST BE VIEWING THIS WEBSITE IN INTERNET EXPLORER IN

ORDER TO CONTINUE!

Click on

Start

in the lower left of the screen, glide up to

Programs

, select

Microsoft PowerPoint, and click on it to choose the program.

If you get a tip of the day, click

OK

. If not proceed, to the next step.

On the right side of the screen, select

AutoContent Wizard

and click

OK

.

Once in the AutoContent wizard, press the

Next

button to continue.

Select the

General

button to narrow down the selections of templates from which

to choose.

Highlight

Generic

and click

Next

to continue.

Choose

Onscreen Presentation

and click

Next

.

Enter the information as follows:

Presentation Title: Diaspora Women

Click on

Finish

and you have successfully created a slide show.

Step 2: Adding Content

What appears on your screen is the title slide for your presentation. On the left

side of the screen is the outline view of your presentation, which includes the

nine slides you just created.

We now want to add some information to our presentation. To begin, click on the

number two in the outline on the left side of the screen. Now let’s add new

information to the slide.

If you would like to change the layout of the slide, click

Format

then

Slide Layout

, and the slide layout options will appear on the right

side of your screen:

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Select this layout and click

OK

.

Next, click on the word “Introduction” at the

top of the page, and highlight it. Then type

the text: “African Queens.” Click outside of

the highlighted box to accept that title.

Click on the hyperlink (Egyptian Queens)

(

eqyptianqueens.jpg

). Right click on the

image and choose

Copy

. Go to your

PowerPoint slide and right click and select

Paste

. The picture will automatically be

pasted to the graphics box on the right side

of the screen.

In the left-hand box make up some text to

accompany the picture. For example,

"Egypt’s long legacy of powerful queens is

often celebrated in artwork such as this

contemporary tapestry."

Repeat these steps to create slides 3, 4,

and 5 using the following files for images:

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Slide 3

Slide 4

Slide 5

Title: African Woman

Farming

Title: Mothers and

Children

Title: You Choose

Graphic:

womenfarmers.jpg

Graphic:

womenand

children.jpg

Graphic: You Choose

maize

healer

warriors

workers

Layout: title, image and

text

Layout: slide with title

Layout: a blank slide

Slide 6

Slide 7

Slide 8

Title: Contemporary

Swazi Rug

Title: Contemporary South

African Dancers

Title: You choose

Graphic:

swazirug.jpg

Graphic:

contemporarydancers.jpg

Audio: You choose

audio 1

audio 2

Graphic: You choose

maize

healer

warriors

workers

Audio: You choose

audio 1

audio 2

Layout: title, image and

text

Layout: slide with title

Layout: a blank slide

Step 3: Adding Sound

You will notice that slides 7 and 8 include sound clips. To insert sounds into your

presentation, first right click on the link above that contains the sound clip (either

audio 1 or audio 2). On the menu, click

Save Target As

.

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Designate a place to save your sound clip (for example,

desktop, H: drive, etc.), and click the

Save

button. Then

go to the slide into which you would like to incorporate the

sound. At the top of the screen, click

Insert

,

Movies and

Sounds

. Then click

Sound From File

. Find the sound clip

you just saved, highlight it, and click

OK

. PowerPoint will

then ask you if you want the sound to play automatically. If

you would like the sound to play automatically, click

Yes

. If

you would like the sound to only play when you click the

sound icon, click

No

. Repeat this process for any audio

clips you would like to include in your presentation.

Step 4: Saving the Presentation

Now we are going to create a directory on the root of your computer and save

your presentation there.

Go to

File

and select

Save As

. Scroll down and click

C:

. Then click the

Create

New Folder

icon.

Name the folder after yourself, type the name of the presentation, and then click

Save

.

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Step 3: Getting Pictures off the Internet & Inserting Them in Your

Presentation

Minimize your presentation by clicking on the second button to the left of the

X

in

the upper right hand corner of your screen.

Go to:

http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/pics.html

Once the first image is fully loaded, right mouse click on the image and select

Save Image As

. Save as

Asante Queen

in the folder you created on your C:

drive.

Return to your PowerPoint presentation by clicking on the PowerPoint tab at the

bottom of your screen.

Go to Slide 8 and select an appropriate layout (one in which it is possible to

include both text and graphics). Then insert the picture of the Asante Queen. The

graphic is in the folder you created earlier.

Reposition and resize as needed. Also, add this narrative in the text box:

Asante Queen Mothers share power with their sons. As

Co-regents, both male and female are very powerful."

Step 4: Adding Visual and Audio Effects to Your Presentation

Click on

Slide Show

on the menu bar, and

Slide Transition.

On the right side of the screen, a

Slide Transition

box appears. Scroll to the top

and select

Blinds Horizontal

and

Medium Speed

. Under the heading

Modify

Transition

,

click on

Apply to All Slides

.

You may also add audio effects to your presentation from this screen. Under the

heading

Modify Transition

click the dropdown list labeled

Sound

. This list gives

you a multitude of options for adding sound effects to your presentation, such as

applause and drum rolls. Simply click the sound you would like to incorporate into

your slide show. If you would like to incorporate that effect into all of your slides,

click the

Apply to All Slides

button. If you do not click

Apply to All Slides

, the

sound effect will only be inserted on the slide that is currently on your screen.

Step 5:

View Your Presentation

Click on

Slide Show

, then

View Show

. Right mouse click to advance the slides.

If time permits, your instructor will show you how to do the following:

•

resizing the image

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•

inserting text using the drawing bar

•

formatting text with the format bar