Power Point Story Telling

Using Power Point to learn about using PowerPoint

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

Menus

Views

Design

• Slide Design

• Slide Layout

• Slide Colour scheme

• Slide background

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

Slide Design

Explore the Explore the possibilitiespossibilities

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

Layout

Layout Experiment

Colour Scheme

• Choose a scheme you like

• Or build your own from the Custom tab

Explore the possibilities

Backgrounds

Format background

• Changing the background only

• Can be for one slide • Can apply to all

Format background

• Changing the background only

• Can be for one slide • Can apply to all

Format background

• Changing the background only

• Can be for one slide • Can apply to all

Format background

• Changing the background only

• Can be for one slide • Can apply to all

Format Background

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

Format Font

• Remember to select the text you want to change first

• Format … Font• Change all you want

Animation

• Use the Slide Show menu

• Preset animations are easiest to use

• Custom animations give you most control

• Do not overuse

Custom Animation

• Choose which part of the slide to animate

• Click Add Effect• Choose which

effect to use• Click OK

Custom Animation

• Tell it when to appear using the “Start” drop down box

• Use Property and Speed to change other things

• Explore

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

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

Adding Pictures

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

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

Hyperlink

• Insert … Hyperlink• Hyperlinks only work

when the presentation is running

Hyperlink

• The hyperlinking screen will open

• Click on the document tab to link inside this presentation

• Click on the Locate button

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

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

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

Story writing

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

Stingray is born

Food short - need to move to new area

Large hungry shark appears

Hides in sandy bottom

till safe

Stingray is born

First food

Meets cranky crab

Explores local area

notices pollution

fewer other species

food short

getting hungry

decides to move to new

area

not sure which way to go

strange territory lost

& alone

rocky coast - no place to

hide

Large hungry shark

chase

goes around rocky headland

sees sandy bottom

dives for bottom &

covers with sand

eyes just above sand

shark chases tuna

hides in sandy bottom

until safe

Learns that hiding is better than running for a stingray

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