pss 7 power_point

Problem Solving Session 7 Presentation Tool

MS PowerPoint 2010

• Try out MS PowerPoint 2010 to create a draft presentation for your project

• Share your ppt on slideshare.net

Today’s tasks

• Start a new PowerPoint file • Put down the project topic, name and student ID in slide 1 • Add a date to the first slide (in the subtitle area)

– Click the Date & Time button under the Insert tab – Choose Update automatically in the pop up window

Add a date

• Use the New Slide button under the Home tab to create new slides

• You can also use the Layout button to change the layout of the slide

Create a new slide

• Use SmartArt to create a flow chart to introduce the content of the presentation – Click the SmartArt button under the Insert tab

– Use the Continuous Block Process layout in the Process

group

SmartArt

– Fill in the appropriate content text into the SmartArt box – You can press Enter to add more bullets

SmartArt

• You may copy the sample PowerPoint slides from source_ppt.pptx and paste them to your PowerPoint file

Sample contents

• Change the Slide Design and Color Scheme under the Design tab

Slide Design

Select a design

Change the color scheme

• Changes in the Slide Master will affect ALL slides in the file • If we want to add an image to ALL pages, we can add it in the

Slide Master • Choose the View tab • Then click the Slide Master button in the Master Views group

Slide Master

• Don’t close the Slide Master Group

• Choose the Insert tab • Click the Picture button • Choose a picture and move it

to where you want • You may dim the picture by

right-clicking on the picture and choose Format Picture.

Insert a picture on a master slide

• Select Picture Color group, and choose Washout effect under Recolor

• You may also adjust the brightness and contrast if you want

• Close the Master View under the Slide Master group when you finish editing the master slide

Insert a picture on a master slide

• Add another SmartArt object to slide 6 • Use the layout Horizontal Bullet List under List group • The data can be found from the file source_table.docx

Complete the sample slides contents

• Copy the tables from the file source_table.docx and paste them to slides 7 and 8

• You can change the Table Styles under the Design tab

Complete the sample slides contents

Change the Table Styles Change the Table Styles on

specific rows/columns

• Choose the Insert tab • Click the Object button • Choose Create from file • Browse for the Excel file that contains the chart

– You may find some sample charts in sample-PSS6.xlsx • DO NOT check the Link option

• If the desired chart is not shown, double click on the chart and choose for another worksheet that contains the desired chart

Insert Chart from Excel

• Open the video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk

• Click the Share link • Then click the Embed button • Check the boxes for

– Enable privacy- enhanced mode and

– Use old embed code • Copy the code

Embed a YouTube Video Clip (1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk

• Go to the slide, choose the Insert tab • Select the Video button, and choose

Video from Web Site • Paste the code into the box of the pop-up window • Change the embed code

highlighted below before clicking the Insert button.

Embed a YouTube Video Clip (2)

<object width="480" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/eob532iEpqk?hl=en_US&version=2&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/eob532iEpqk?hl=en_US&version=2&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

• Insert the movie we made from the Video Editing Lab • On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the Video button

and select Video from file • Choose the video file, e.g. Sample video: RFID_sample.wmv • You may insert the movie by choose the following options:

– Insert to embed your movie into the PowerPoint file – Link to File to link the video file placed in the same folder

with the PowerPoint file

Insert a movie

• Apply transition effect to all slides under the Transitions tab

Transition Effects

Select a transition effect Apply the effect to all

slides

Change the speed

• Select any objects which you want to add animation • Click the Add Animation button under the Animations tab,

and choose the effect from the list, you can preview the effect as well

• Click the Animation Pane button in the Advanced Animations group

• The Animation pane will be shown • Adjust the timing, direction and speed by right-clicking the object on the pane

Add Animation

• We would like to create an automatic slide show that the PowerPoint slides can be run automatically

• You can also insert sound tracks to every slides for the automatic slide show

– Choose the Insert tab – Click the Audio button and choose Audio from File

– Go to slide 1 – Select the sound file, e.g. Sample file: s1.mp3 – Repeat the steps to insert audio track for other slides by choosing

corresponding mp3 files

Insert audio tracks to the slide

• Move the sound icon to the bottom right corner • Click the icon and select the Playback tab under Audio Tools • Check the Hide During Show box to hide the icon when the

slide show runs • Choose Play across slides in the Start option

• Move the sound object to the top in the Animation Pane

Insert audio tracks to the slide

• Click the Slide Show tab, and click Rehearse Timings

• The slide show will start and you click on the slide to set the timing for each slide

• Right-click and choose End Show when you finish rehearsal

Automatic Slide Show

• Click the File tab • Choose Save As and • Save your file as xxxxxxxx-PSS7.pptx

Save your file

• We may use website http://www.slideshare.net to share our PowerPoint slides

• Click the Upload button

• Then click Sign up to register for a free account

• Check your email and verify it • Click the orange UPLOAD button • Upload the .pptx file

Share the slides

http://www.slideshare.net/

• After finishing upload and conversion, click on Save & Continue your slides will be published.

• You can share it on Facebook, by email or embed it to your webpage.

• Submit the following to the BU eLearning: – Copy the Embed code to submit, and click View Presentation – Copy the URL from the browser and paste to the submission box

Share the slides & Today’s Submission

• However, the sound and video embedded in the PowerPoint cannot be played as these functions are not supported.

• To show the YouTube video: – Choose My Uploads at the top right corner – Select Edit and choose Add video – You can insert YouTube videos in the slide show

Embed Audio and Video

• You can save the theme to a file – Design All Themes Save Current Theme… – Name the theme file (e.g. Theme1.thmx)

Supplementary: Save a theme

• Once the theme is saved, it can be loaded and apply to another slides (e.g. blank slides)

Supplementary: Load a theme

• We can use PowerPoint to make a photo slide show easily • Click the Insert tab • Click the Photo Album button • Click File/Disk… to select photos • Select Theme for the photo album • You can make some changes to the photos (e.g. Rotation, brightness, contrast)

Supplementary - Photo Album

• Add a date • Create a new slide • SmartArt • Slide Design • Slide Master • Insert a picture • Insert Chart from Excel • Embed a YouTube video clip • Insert a movie • Transition Effects • Custom Animation • Insert sound tracks to the slide • Automatic Slide Show • Share the slides

Summary

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