multimedia

The following instructions can be used for any discipline and just about any assignment whose end result would include the presentation of gathered information. The details would be set by the teacher (book report: plot, setting, characters, theme, and point of view would each have one slide with no more than 6 bulleted items per slide). [|to watch video click here]

Create a PowerPoint Presentation
1. Launch **PowerPoint**©. 2. Make sure the **Common Tasks** toolbar is open by going to **View** then **Toolbars** and placing a checkmark next to **Common Tasks**. 3. Choose **Blank Presentation**. 4. Select **Title Slide** and click **OK**. 5. Choose **Apply Design** from the **Common Tasks** toolbar. 6. Select the design most appropriate for the presentation then click **Apply**. 7. Add the title to the slide. 8. Add the subtitle or author's name. 9. Choose **New Slide** from the **Common Tasks** toolbar. 10. Choose a slide format that will suit your needs. 11. Enter data onto the slide. 12. Repeat steps 9 - 11 until all slides in the presentation are completed. 13. Scroll up to the first slide. 14. Go to **Slide Show** and select **Custom Animation**. 15. Click on the portion of the slide that you want to animate (title, text, object, etc 16. Click on the Add Effect button. Go to Entrance then More Effects. 17. Move the Add Entrance Effect dialog box to a corner so that you can preview the effects on your slide. When you click on an effect you will be able to see what it looks like on the slide. Click on Ok when you find the effect that you want. 18. You can set it to start on a mouse click, automatically with the previous effect, or automatically after the previous effect. You can also change the effect, modify the speed of the effect, or remove the effect. 19. You will notice that a number has appeared next to the slide component that has been animated. That number corresponds with a box to the right of the slide that describes the animated component. 20. Click on that box and a list arrow will appear on the right side of the box. Click on that arrow and choose Effect Options. 21. Click on the Effects tab to add sound, define actions after the animation occurs (I don’t mess with this option), or animate all at once, by word, or by letter and define the time between letters or words. 22. Click Ok to set those effects. 23. Click the Play button to see an example of the animation that has been set for the slide. 24. Click on the second object and repeat steps 15-22. 25. Go to Slide Show and then Slide Transition. 26. Choose a transition animation. 27. Select **Automatically,** and remove the check from **On mouse click**. 28. Click **Apply to All Slides**. 29. Go to **Slide Show** and then **View Show** to run the presentation and see how it looks. 30. To adjust the time that each slide stays on the screen, follow these steps: 31. Go to the slide that needs the timing adjusted. 32. Go to **Slide Show** then **Slide Transition** and increase/decrease the number of seconds and then run the presentation again. The change will automatically be applied to the selected slide, __so do not click on **Apply to all slides**__. 33. Repeat steps 31 and 32 for each slide that needs to be adjusted. Make sure you do not click **Apply to all slides**.