Documenting Your Work

Show us How you did it!

What is documenting your work?

• Documenting your work means recording the process so others can see how you did it.

• Sometimes you use digital photos to document the process

• Sometimes you use video clips to document the process

• Sometimes you use screen captures to document the process.

Use photos and callouts to explain the process.

Tell us about the steps you took to reach the finished product

Documenting your work with Photos

Videos are a great way to document your work!

Using Video Clips

Open your video by double clicking on the .MOV file.

Use “Alt + PrtScn” to take a screen capture of the video player.

Paste the Screen Capture into your PowerPoint slide.

Adjust the size and position of the screen capture

Right click on the screen capture and select hyperlink

Hyperlink the video to the .MOV file in your LEARNERS DRIVE!!!

Learners Drive

Learners Drive

Here you can resize your

photo. A good size for most

PowerPoints is a width of 600 pixels or so.

Documenting your work with screen

captures

We opened our picture in

IrfanView and selected

resize/resample from the image

menu

We set the pixel width to 130

then clicked OK.

Now our picture is a thumbnail

Documenting your Work with Callouts

•A callout is a bubble with an arrow that points to an item on your slide. •Callouts are great ways to highlight specific photos/screen captures or sections of photos and screen captures.

I’m a callout! So am I! Woo-hoo! Yeah callouts!

Yee-haw callouts!

Documenting your Work with Callouts

To insert a callout click shapes and then go to the

very bottom and select a callout

design.

To insert a callout click shapes and then go to the

very bottom and select a callout

design.

This feels weird making

callouts about

callouts!

Documenting your Work with Callouts

To change the size of a callout, drag the boxes on the edges.

To change where the pointer

goes, click and drag the yellow box at the end of the callout

To type in the callout, just click in it and start typing!

To change the color, or other

properties, right-click and select format shape.