How to put the “Power” in Your PowerPoint Tabitha Long ITRT Russell County Schools

Why use PowerPoint? Organize your thoughts Organize the material Link text, photos, videos, etc. Easy way to supply students with notes IEP Blog, Wiki, Moodle Absences

Classroom Setup Classroom set up is important in the PowerPoint design –Lighting –Student seating –Room size

PowerPoint Basics: Fonts 18 point 20 point 24 point 28 point 36 point 40 point

PowerPoint Basics: Fonts AVOID USING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE IT’S MUCH HARDER TO READ AND OFTEN CONSIDER ‘YELLING’

PowerPoint Basics: Color Dark letters against a light background work. Dark letters against a light background are best for smaller rooms and for teaching.

PowerPoint Basics: Color Many experts feel that a dark blue or black background works best for talks in a large room. Light letters against a dark background also work.

PowerPoint Basics: Color Avoid red-green combinations because a large fraction of the human population is red-green colorblind. Lots of people can’t read this – and even if they could, it makes your eyes hurt. If you want to try something different – be sure to see what it looks like with the projector BEFORE you actually use it.

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PowerPoint Basics: Color Different slide designs can be used. You can obtain these from: PowerPoint program Design Ribbon in PowerPoint 2007 Theme Section Internet nt_templates.htm nt_templates.htm Click Download, then Save, then click Open to open the template in PowerPoint

PowerPoint Basics: Layout Keep layout and style as consistent as possible. 6x6 Presentation Rule: No more than six words per line No more than six bullets per slide Use Different Slide Layouts Located on Home ribbon Slide section

PowerPoint Basics: Layout The reason for limiting text blocks to a few lines is that when the text block goes on and on forever, students have to make a huge effort to read the text, which will keep them from paying attention to what you are saying. Every time you lose their focus, learning suffers!

PowerPoint Basics: Layout It is often effective to “unveil” a list point by point. How To: Highlight text you want to “unveil” Click on Animations ribbon Custom Animations Add Effect Entrance

PowerPoint Basics: Layout Do not overuse animations Do NOT use screeching sounds as text enters!

Do not cram too much into a slide.

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Remember PowerPoint is teaching “tool” Slides are to assist with teaching Not replacement for you.

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Who Has Had This Day???

Advanced PowerPoint Inserting Pictures from Files or Other Sites Pictures can be a very effective method of explaining a concept. Google Image Search Sources for copyright free pictures: Pics4Learning Images -

Advanced PowerPoing Inserting Pictures from Files or Other Sites To insert a picture: 1.Be sure you have saved the pic 2.Insert ribbon 3.Picture 4.Select the picture to insert Resize or move the picture to suit your presentation.

Advanced PowerPoint Adding a label to a picture You can add a text box and arrow to label items in the picture. You may need to order the items in Custom Animation

Example Adding Label & Custom Animation See Handout

Puzzled About Interdependence? Oh, New York, can I have some of your green apples to give to my teacher? Sure, I’ll trade you some oranges for your apples. Then we both get what we need. Yes, Florida…As long as I can have some of your orange juice for my stuffy nose. It’s too COLD for them to grow here! For interdependence, each party depends on the other for something it needs but cannot make itself. They fit together like a puzzle: neither can be whole without the other piece. Text Box Callout Shape Clipart

Advanced PowerPoint Grouping See Handout

Advanced PowerPoint Adding Hyperlinks You can add a hyperlink to text, an object, or a picture. You can link a web page, another page in the PowerPoint or another document. See handout Example

Advanced PowerPoint Insert Video See Handout 1.Be sure you have saved the movie/video you want to use 2.Click Insert ribbon 3.Click “Movie” in Media Clips section 4.Click “Movie from file” 5.Locate the movie file you want to insert

Advanced PowerPoint Speaker’s Notes You can add notes as “memory” joggers Can be added in Normal or Notes Page view Print “Notes Pages” to use when presenting Click the Microsoft Office button Click Print In the “Print What” section, choose “Notes Pages”

Subject-specific PowerPoints Google Advanced search –Enter topic and select PowerPoint as the file type

Game Templates for PowerPoint Jeopardy PowerPoint Templates are a great way to review Search the web for topic specific jeopardy PowerPoints Other game templates – see handout Sign up if you would like me to you game templates

Be careful, PowerPoint can be very Powerful but it can cause Poisioning!

Integrating with SmartBoard Any file (PowerPoint or others) can be but into a Smartboard Notebook file using either: Insert option from Notebook Or Print to Notebook SmartBoard