How to Use PowerPointMicrosoft Office

Why Use PowerPoint?

PowerPoint is a program that allows you to share your projects with others using graphics, sound, text and movies. PowerPoint connects each page together to form a slideshow. You’re watching a Powerpoint slideshow right now! It’s a little plain at the moment, but soon you’ll see how PowerPoint can create a dynamic presentation.

Before you Begin

Before you can put your PowerPoint slideshow together, you will need to have done all of your research. You will also need to have a plan.

The plan is called a storyboard. A storyboard is a sequence of slides with notes.

Slide #2

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Kid Pix drawing of Christopher Columbus

Let’s Get Started

2) Click on the Start Button on the task bar at the bottom of you screen. Find the PowerPoint icon.

3) At the New Slide window, select Title Slide, then OK.

1) Click on a blank spot on your computer’s desktop. Go to file, new folder to create a folder. Name the folder after your project (ex. Integers). From now on, everything you gather, create, or need for your project will go into this folder.

Toolbars

There are a couple of toolbars that will help make your job a little easier; Formatting and Drawing.

To display these toolbars, go to View, Toolbars. Choose Formatting and Drawing.

View-Toolbars-Drawing

Formatting - Fonts • Choose fonts that are

easy for the audience to read from anywhere in the room.• Choose fonts that have upper- and lowercase letters.• Use font size, bold and italics to emphasize or de-emphasize information• Be consistent; stick with one or two fonts throughout your project.

Arial

Century Gothic

Geneva

Georgia

Helvetica

Tahoma

Times New Roman

Brush Script

Curlz

Desdemona

Gill Sans

Harrington

Lucida Handwriting

Onyx

Good Fonts Bad Fonts

Formatting - Colors

Black on white

Good Bad Choose colors that contrast. Dark on light or light on dark shows up best. Choose colors that suit your project. For example, a yellow font on a black background would be good choices for a project on space.

Black on yellow

Maroon on peach

Lt. Blue on black

Honeydew on olive

Plum on gray

Midnight on pale blue

Gray on white

Turquoise on lime

Lt. green on gray

Black on indigo

Banana on tan

Salmon on red

Grape on plum

Formatting - Slide DesignsFormatting - Slide Designs

Slide designs enhance the look of your slides. Choose slide designs that are suited for your project. A slide design not only sets the background, it also sets fonts and font colors. You can change them as you wish. This slide design is called “Ripple.”

When a slide design is chosen, it can appear on every slide or just the slide you’re working on. To select a slide design, go to Format, Slide design. Select a slide design from the list. Choose Apply to all slides or Apply to the current slide. Click Apply.

Format-Slide Design

Available Slide Designs

Formatting - Solid and Other Backgrounds

Don’t like the choices of the slide designs? You can choose a solid color, texture or gradient background instead. Go to Format, Background. • Solid background - At the background window, choose the color pull-down menu and More Colors. A window of crayon colors will appear. Choose the desired color.• Gradients and Textures - At the background window, choose Fill Effects. The fill effect on this page is a texture called blue tissue paper.• Select Apply to All if you want all slides to be the same color or Apply if you only want the current slide to be that color.

More Colors Fill Effects

Title Slide

INTEGERS MA.7.1.3: Describe situations represented

by integers and absolute value.

By: Mr ImamuraMath PeriodCurrent Date

A title slide is like the cover of a book. It contains 1) the title of the project, 2) the authors’ names and 3) sometimes a photo or illustration. The title is usually in a large font with the authors’ names slightly smaller.

Google Images is a great source for acquiring clip art and photos. Go to www.google.com. Select Images, type the topic name (ex. Integers), and search. Click on the desired image to view the website it came from. Drag the image from the website to the folder on your desktop. Copy and paste the URL of the website to your CREDITS slide.

Save…Save…Save

Every time you remember, save your project to your project folder. This is to assure that your hard work is recoverable in the event of a computer crash. It’s a good idea to save after creating each slide. A PowerPoint project uses a lot of computer memory and sometimes the computer freezes. Save often and you won’t regret it.

INTEGERS MA.7.1.3: Describe situations represented

by integers and absolute value.

By Mr ImamuraMath PeriodCurrent Date

Consistency

Fonts, colors and backgrounds should not overpower your project. Instead, it should enhance it. Be consistent when choosing fonts, colors, slide designs and background colors; each page should look fairly similar. It’s the information on the page that should stand out. Notice how every slide in this slideshow has a heading at the top, center. The font is always Times and the size is 44 point. The information text boxes are also in Times. To make your slides consistent, after you’ve created a good slide, select Insert, Duplicate Slide. The duplicate slide will be identical to the one before it. Change the information on the duplicate slide.

Credits Page

Credits

1) Image on Title Slide http://www.karlscalculus.org

2) Definition http://freemathhelp.com/glossary/glossary.php?word=Integer

The credits page is the last page of your project but create it early. As you use books, magazines, and other resources, enter the bibliography on the credits page. A credits page is especially helpful when you acquire information from a website. Simply copy the URL and paste it to your credits page.

Math Project – Format

The slides between the title slide and credits slide contain the meat of your project. The general format of your math project should include the following slides: Definition, Example, Drawing, or Formula, Question, an Solution to Question.

Title Slide

Definition

Example / Drawing/ Formula

Question

Solution to Question

Credits Page

Text Boxes

Information on your slides will showcase all of the research that you’ve done. To create a text box, use the Insert, Text Box. On the slide, right click and drag to make a text box. Choose a font from the formatting toolbar. Type the text.

To resize a text box, click on the edge of the text box. Point to a dot, also called a handle, then resize. To move a text box, click on the edge of the text box and drag it to the desired location. Insert-Text Box

Graphics

Graphics are visually appealing and support the information in the text boxes. You can state that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to Hispaniola but having a map to go with your text gives your audience a better understanding of his journey. The map below came from Google Images. Don’t forget to give credit to the website that you acquire internet images from on your credits page. To capture the image with a frame, double click the image and change the line color from no line to the desired color. Graphics can also be obtained from Autoshapes in the Drawing toolbar.

5 – (-5) = 10

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Photos

A photo is also a great way to add to your PowerPoint slideshow. The group shot shown here is a team of students who dressed up for the Greek Olympics. To add a photo to your project, use a digital camera to take a picture. Connect the camera to your computer using a USB cable. Your computer should automatically open and detect the camera’s connection. Click download to transfer the photos from the camera to your file folder on the computer, or just click and drag the photo into your presentation.

Creating Fractions

INSERT – OBJECT – MICROSOFT EQUATION 3.0

To create a fraction, click and drag on the fraction displayed on the toolbar.

Creating Exponents

To create exponents, simply type the equation, but make the exponents and base the same text size. (example 22 + 2 = 6, type in as 22 + 2 = 6)

Type in the following equation:

22 + 2 = 6

Use the curser to highlight only the exponent value “2”.

Next right click on the mouse and select the Font command.

The box to the right will appear. Place a check mark in the box titled Superscript. This will change the number to appear as an exponent.

End Product: 22 + 2 = 6

Other considerations

Transitions - On the formatting palette, view the different transitions. A transition is what the slides will look like when they change from one slide to the next. Choose a transition that you like.

Audio – If you would like to add audio to your presentation, use the Insert-Movies and Sounds command. Find the file (song/clip) you wish to insert.

Video Clips – If you would like to insert a video clip in your presentation, use the Insert-Movies and Sounds command. Find your file and insert.

Putting it All Together Once all slides have been

created, you’re ready to put it all together. On the bottom, left corner of the PowerPoint window, there are different views: Normal, Outline, Slide, Slide Sorter and Slideshow. Choose Slide Sorter View. Go to Edit, Select All to highlight all slides. Go to View, Formatting Palette.

Outline View Slide View Slide Sorter View Slide Show

Slide Sorter View

View Your Slideshow Select Slideshow View from

the bottom, left corner of your project window. Click the mouse to view the slideshow. To exit Slideshow View, press Escape. As you view your slideshow, practice speaking like you would in front of an audience. Look for mistakes and ways to improve each slide. Go to Normal View to make changes as needed. Next up, a sample slideshow on INTEGERS by Mr. Imamura!

Normal – Slide Sorter – Slide Show

INTEGERSINTEGERS

By: Mr. ImamuraMath PeriodCurrent Date

MA.7.1.3 – Describe and solve situations MA.7.1.3 – Describe and solve situations represented by integers and absolute values.represented by integers and absolute values.

DEFINITIONDEFINITION

INTEGERINTEGERA number in the set of positive and negative A number in the set of positive and negative whole numberswhole numbers as well as zero {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2} as well as zero {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2}

POSITIVE NUMBERPOSITIVE NUMBER (natural number) (natural number)Any integer greater than zero {1, 2, 3, 4}Any integer greater than zero {1, 2, 3, 4}

NEGATIVE NUMBERNEGATIVE NUMBERAny integer less than zero {-4, -3, -2, -1}Any integer less than zero {-4, -3, -2, -1}

GENERAL RULESGENERAL RULESAdditionAddition– If similar signs, add and use the same sign.If similar signs, add and use the same sign.– If different signs, find the difference of the two values If different signs, find the difference of the two values

and use the sign of the larger value.and use the sign of the larger value.Similar Similar 3 + 4 = 7,3 + 4 = 7, -3 + -4 = -7-3 + -4 = -7DifferentDifferent 3 + (-4) = -1,3 + (-4) = -1, -3 + 4 = +1-3 + 4 = +1

SubtractionSubtraction– Add the opposite of the second number. Add the opposite of the second number. – Then follow the rules of addition above.Then follow the rules of addition above.

3 – 4 = change it to 3 + (-4) = -13 – 4 = change it to 3 + (-4) = -13 – (-4) = change it to 3 + (+4) = +73 – (-4) = change it to 3 + (+4) = +7

GENERAL RULES (continued)GENERAL RULES (continued)

Multiplication and DivisionMultiplication and Division

Table below applies to both operations.Table below applies to both operations.

Positive (x or ÷) Positive = PositivePositive (x or ÷) Positive = Positive6 x 3 = 18, 6 x 3 = 18, 6 ÷ 3 = 26 ÷ 3 = 2

Positive (x or ÷) Negative = NegativePositive (x or ÷) Negative = Negative6 x (-3) = -186 x (-3) = -18 6 ÷ (-3) = -26 ÷ (-3) = -2

Negative (x or ÷) Positive = NegativeNegative (x or ÷) Positive = Negative-6 x 3 = -18-6 x 3 = -18 -6 ÷ 3 = -2 -6 ÷ 3 = -2

Negative (x or ÷) Negative = Positive Negative (x or ÷) Negative = Positive - 6 x (-3) = 18- 6 x (-3) = 18 -6 ÷ -3 = 2-6 ÷ -3 = 2

QUESTION #1QUESTION #1

UH started a play on their own 35 yard line UH started a play on their own 35 yard line but were pushed back 5 yards. On what but were pushed back 5 yards. On what yard line are they now?yard line are they now?

35 + (-5) = 30 yard line35 + (-5) = 30 yard line

Started from Started from Lost on playLost on play Currently atCurrently at

QUESTION #2QUESTION #2

#2. Last week John had $0 when he #2. Last week John had $0 when he borrowed $50 from his parents. This week borrowed $50 from his parents. This week John borrowed an additional $35. Right John borrowed an additional $35. Right now how much money does John have? now how much money does John have?

-$50 - $35 = change to below -$50 - $35 = change to below -$50 + (-$35) = -$85 dollars -$50 + (-$35) = -$85 dollars

Week 1 Week 2Week 1 Week 2 $ owed for both weeks $ owed for both weeks

CREDITSCREDITS

Image on Title Slide Image on Title Slide http://www.karlscalculus.orghttp://www.karlscalculus.org

DefinitionDefinitionhttp://freemathhelp.com/glossary/http://freemathhelp.com/glossary/glossary.php?word=Integerglossary.php?word=Integer