1. 11 Preparing a Linguistics Presentation with MS Powerpoint I Mutsumi Ogawa - mogawa@essex.ac.uk LG400 Week 8

2. 22 General Information  Course homepage  http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg400 http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg400  Updated after session runs  Email: mogawa@essex.ac.ukmogawa@essex.ac.uk 2

3. 333 Outline of session  This session will give you the basics of setting up your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 such as:  Introduction to MS PowerPoint  Inserting a new slide  Manipulating Slide Layout and Slide Design  Adding Speaker notes and printing them  Inserting Linguistics Objects (trees, IPA fonts, examples etc)

4. 4 About Powerpoint 4

5. 5 Inserting a new slide  Type Ctrl-M for inserting a new slide after your current slide Or  In PowerPoint 2007, select the HOME tab, then click on New slide button 5

6. 6 Inserting Slide Layouts  Click on the arrow next to the NEW SLIDE button  A list of choices will appear  Select the appropriate layout (a combination of images, text boxes, smart art objects etc) 6

7. 7 Inserting a slide design  Click on the DESIGN tab  Click on one of the themes available under the THEMES section  More templates are available under FILE > NEW  Page setup for custom slide size (e.g., poster presentation) 7

8. 8 Working with slide templates 8 Design > Themes Design > Themes > Background Styles > Format Background

9. 9 SmartArt  Insert > SmartArt  SmartArt Tools  Design: Colors, Layouts, Line Colors  Format: Shapes, Word styles,

10. 10 Working with slide transitions 10

11. 11 Adding speaker notes  Click on the VIEW tab, then select NORMAL VIEW. This should give you the standard view of working in Powerpoint.  At the bottom of your screen, there is some space for the speaker’s notes.  These notes cannot be viewed by your audience when you present your slideshow, so you will need to print them to read from them  Click on the VIEW tab, then select NOTES VIEW. This will get you to the speaker notes view, where you can edit your notes more comfortably and print your notes 11

12. 12 Inserting Linguistics Objects Follow the same method as with inserting objects in Word 2007:  Trees  Avms  Examples  Tables  Graphs 12

13. 13 Next session  Preparing your Presentation with Powerpoint II Use Animation for effective presentation Reuse slides Useful functions in Slide show (Presenter View, Rehearse timings, Pen and highlighter, Shortcuts) Tips on creating a successful and engaging presentation 13