2. To go back.

3. At any time, you may press the “Esc” button at the top upper left side of your keyboard to get out to move many slides backwards or forwards. Remember: keep pressing the screen to move forward a point at a time.

4. Edward De Leon

5. Notes: PowerPoint allows the instructor to bring in text in bullet forms or brief statements for those students, who cannot write as fast. It also allows the point to sit there, to ponder, if you will, for the student. The point/bullet can be introduced with fanfare or just presented, and the instructor goes from there.

6. Your PC should look some like this Go to the Start Button

7. Up to Programs then over to Microsoft PowerPoint

8. This first prompt slide asks you to select a preset Design Template, Or, if you prefer, Blank presentation

9. PowerPoint has many design templates to select from, plus a preview

10. This is just one of PowerPoint slides templates NOTE: If you select a template, it will be the same for your whole presentation.

11. Or select Blank presentation. The rest of this presentation is on blank slides I recommend this because I can choose backgrounds

13. You’ll get a screen like this: this is the working board This shows you which slide you’re in.

14. These pull down menus are important to insert objects and to add other neat things. So, I urge you to take five minutes to go to each menu.

15. Also, this task bar allows you to manipulate text—take five minutes here too.

16. These icons lets you manipulate the slides—take five here. This icon when clicked will start the slide show.

17. Let’s begin by adding a new slide You may hit the icon or the Insert pull down menu.

18. It’ll ask you for Autolayout. Always choose this one.

19. If you need more slide view area, move the bars over and down with with the mouse pointer

20. Or, use these icons to see the slides in various forms and layouts

21. Ok, a blank slide. Let’s start adding stuff.

22. Descriptive Essay click

23. I did this writing with the Text icon

25. I did this writing with the Word Art icon. When you select the object, this box appears to adjust it some more

27. You may want to insert clip art from your computer; Use this icon.

28. Let’s insert a picture go to the Insert menu you may have some objects in Clip Art … or From File … —like a CD of art works.

29. Chose file … I have a CD in the (D:)

30. You many go through the list of art objects—it gives a preview Then hit Insert

31. It’ll look like this on your slide, however, if you want it to be a background instead you need to select it in the Format menu.

32. Let’s make it a Background …

33. When you hit Background … You’ll get this option GO to the down arrow Then hit Fill Effects …

34. This is a neat place for backgrounds of all sorts and designs Gradient, Texture, and Pattern are fun if you don’t want a picture. But I want a picture-- I hit Picture.

35. Here hit Select Picture …

36. Go to the same place, like before.

37. Select and hit Insert

38. It wants to confirm your choice. Hit OK

39. Now, this is important. Do you want it on all your slides or just One? I do them one at a time so I hit Apply. And viola!

40. Hit screen to go on.

41. Hit the Text Box to add text Position the Text bar anywhere. Preferably in light spaces if you’re writing in black. If you prefer to use text instead...

42. The Descriptive Essay

43. You notice some problems in the dark portion. Use a different text color if it’ll help.

44. The Descriptive Essay

45. You may want the slide to come in a certain manner For this, use Slide Transition

46. Here, you are offered ways to slide your slide into the next position. Select one-- the Effect picture of the dog will show you how it will appear.

47. Or, you could Bold it or enlarge the letters

48. Let’s make the text animated High light it. …and select one of the options

49. You saw how I added pictures Guess what, you can add sound (wav files) and movies (very short ones work well). From a CD

50. This is a sample from the computer’s files

51. To insert a short movie clip from a CD do this.

52. Place the CD in the drive

53. Select the movie clip you want and hit OK

55. To add text from you disk or desktop click the Start and open Word.

58. You have opened Word—you should know the rest.

59. When you have call up your document, high light all the document. When you high lighted and copied it, hit PowerPoint on the task bar

60. Good description uses specific details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. SightSoundTaste Color?Loud/soft?Good? (What does “good” taste like?) Shape?Piercing/soothing?Bad? (What does “bad” taste like?) Size?Continuous off/on?Bitter/Sugary? Metallic? Patterns?Pleasant/un-Burning/Spicy? Shiny/Dull?Does it sound like...Does it taste like... Does it look like anything else? SmellTouch Sweet/Sour?Hard/Soft? Sharp/mild?Liquid/Solid? Good? (Like what?)Rough/Smooth? Bad? (Like rotten?)Hot/Cold New? (New what?)Dry/oily? LeatherTextures PlasticDoes it feel like … Does it smell like… Thinking critically to find a main impression. Focus: Think about you topic, and what its most intense quality is. Ask: What do I think of first when I think of this topic? What are the first words that come to mind about it? What is the quality that best characterizes the topic to me? What do I want my readers to think about my topic? Can I think of sensory details that create that quality? Can I write a paragraph about that quality? This is the rough copy. Here you start cutting and moving text around You can just paste like I did here. Or...

61. Open a text block window to place the text in.

62. Good description uses specific details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. SightSoundTaste Color?Loud/soft?Good? (What does “good” taste like?) Shape?Piercing/soothing?Bad? (What does “bad” taste like?) Size?Continuous off/on?Bitter/Sugary? Metallic? Patterns?Pleasant/un-Burning/Spicy? Shiny/Dull?Does it sound like...Does it taste like... Does it look like anything else? Once you have the text arranged the way you want to present it, let’s make it come in at different times instead of all at once. So you may talk about one point more than another.

63. High light the text, like here. You may choose icon already to go. Or… Select Custom Animation

64. Here you select I chose the text to Fly. How...?

65. From the

66. Make sure you check this box to make the text fly in a line at a time.

67. Lets say you want to change the order of bringing some point before another—use this. Highlight which you want first or second or third and move it with the Move arrows.

68. Good description uses specific details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. SightSoundTaste Color?Loud/soft?Good? (What does “good” taste like?) Shape?Piercing/soothing?Bad? (What does “bad” taste like?) Size?Continuous off/on?Bitter/Sugary? Metallic? Patterns?Pleasant/un-Burning/Spicy? Shiny/Dull?Does it sound like...Does it taste like... Does it look like anything else? This is very basic. You can Experiment.

69. Suppose you see something on the Web, but don’t like how it’s presented—you could copy and paste just enough to talk about it in class Minimize this window and open the Web.

71. You see PowerPoint is still running. Open Explorer or whatever browser.

72. As you can see the web is running too with PowerPoint, and I’m searching for information on Description. Use a search engine

73. Before I go any further, some information is copywrited. You may not use it.

74. This site offers little to no help, depending on what you want. When you finish with the web, go back to PowerPoint. You may leave the web running to go back and forth, too.

76. http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.stm Suppose you have a presentation on, for example, sentence structure and you want to show more examples Create a link on PowerPoint.

77. All I did was use a text box and wrote in the web address. WWW.CNN.COM Then I added a single space at the end to make it hot.

80. WWW.CNN.COM

81. http://209.192.157.149/main/econ3e/downloads/down_ppv.html This is a site to down load a power point viewer, or you may go into any search engine and type: free power point viewer Either way, if you don’t have Power Point on your computer you still need at least the viewer to see the slides if the presentation is emailed to you.

82. Use this to transport your short presentation via email using this option.

83. It would be handy if you have all your text you wish to present in MS Word, so you would be able to just copy and paste it to the slide.  From there, you can divide the text further, into bits or chunks of information.  Bring in as much, or little, to keep the pace of your lecture going.

84. I have found out that I can keep my students focused if I keep bringing in bit and pieces while I am talking.  I put myself in between the screen and the projector, for emphases— it looks like I am on top of the information. Quite dramatic. 

85. By having pictures as background, I make little jokes about it.  I remark about this is my backyard referring to a scenic picture.  I would say, “This is my summer house on the cape.”  This keeps my students active. I bring in points to discuss after I got their attention.

86. Presenting information in this fashion is, I feel, 21 st century teaching. You should hear my students comment on my slides shows. It really beats the overheads! edwarddeleon@hotmail.com