Lesson:   Learn to design a multimedia presentation using PowerPoint

Goals:     Design 10-12 slides adding animation, transitions and music to tell a story.       

Tools:      Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Digital Pictures       

Topic of Presentation: Anything you want...as long as it is a new presentation you design for this class, primarily with pictures you have taken, and has a positive message. You CAN use pictures OF you. You may also use the scanners to scan a few pictures that only exist as a printed picture, like a baby picture.

Details about PowerPoint Presentation:

Developing your presentation will have four stages: Planning, Input, Formatting, Presenting. Please plan your story well. You must complete a storyboard and have it approved before you start your slide design. This storyboard must be kept and turned in with the final project.

 

Phase 1: Planning (storyboard) Storyboard Planner. 10 pts. Please use the sheet to plan your storyboard. You should have a clear beginning slide and ending slide. Recall the various pictures you have or can get from various sources, or what you will look for in the clip art book, etc. See sample below.

Phase 2: Creating the slides. 65 pts. Create a minimum of 10-12 slides. Add text where appropriate, etc. as a prompt for you when you present. Do not feel compelled to put everything you are going to say on the slide. Your INTRO slide does not count as one of your slides unless it is creatively done with a picture. If it is simply text, then you start counting your total number of slides with your 2nd slide. Also, add a "The End" slide which must contain a picture(s) if is to be counted as part of your presentation. General grading details for your pres: 10 slides (with animation) = 100, 10 no animation = 95, 9=90, 8=85, 7=80, 6=75, 5=70. (Remember that the number of slides is only part of the grade).

Phase 3: Adding transitions, animation, and THEN music. 5 pts. Only AFTER you have all of your slides created, then you can work on the transitions and animation. Do NOT even think about adding music until you have a working presentation. Transitions are required...but are only a small part...up to 5 points for effective transitions and animations. Music is OPTIONAL and will not improve nor decrease your score. If you do add music, be sure to keep the volume down low so you can speak over the music.

Phase 4: Presentation. 20 pts. You will present your presentation which is worth up to 20 points of your final grade. Practice your presentation to perfect your delivery to give an effective presentation telling us the stories behind your photos. Your presentation MUST be presented before the seniors in your class leave. This could be different for different classes. Presenting to a reduced class is ineffective and will result in late grade penalty of 10 points.

 

Possible Topics:

• Your favorite pictures

• Your best friends

• A trip you took recently

• A party you had

• Your year in review

• etc.

Example presentation: “A Day in the Life at the WB”

• Adapted from: “A Day in the Life of...” See... http://www.amazon.com/Day-Life-America-Rick-Smolan/dp/000217734Xm

• Shoot for a story about your day at school. In shooting, be sure to capture images in such a way that exemplifies the composition elements we have learned this year.

• Subject matter: be sure to include pictures of the building, you, your classmate, friends, etc. Your waking up in the morning.

PowerPoint Tips:

• When you start PowerPoint, it will open with a blank slide...which is ok. But, if you want to start with a template, close the existing file (don't save changes) and select New from the File Menu. This will give you a choice of preset slides. This is one time that Ctrl + N may not be the best method...but with PowerPoint 2007, I haven't figure out any other way. Anybody else?

• After you have started, you can choose "Design" on the Ribbon. Show/Hide Ribbon = Ctrl + F1. It has options along the top to choose between different features, like slide design, layout, animation and transition. You can choose to apply to one slide...the default is to change all slides, depending on what button you click.

• You do not have to use a template...and you can change any individual slide once you have created the template.

• Use Ctrl + M to create a new slide.

• Everything is an object…there is no text in the background…but there are template objects which are slightly different than other objects.

• Transitions are between slides vs. Animations that are for Objects on a Slide

• F5 starts a slide show from the 1st slide, Shift + F5 starts from current slide (selected).

• If you make custom text boxes, copy a text box from one slide and paste to another so that the text box is in the same position.

• Leave the animation OFF on the slide title so that you can talk a bit about the slide before pictures show up.

• Sound/Music is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and ONLY for those who have completed 10+ slides! You must have your slide show ready to go before messing with the music. Do NOT waste time working with inserting audio files if you haven't got the basic part of the presentation done...that is, 10+ slides...with appropriate animation, etc. Do not just sit here listening to the music...it is coming across the network and is considered streaming audio and uses considerable network resources.

• To add music, it must reside at the same level as your presentation.  The music is located Public/PowerPoint

• Once you insert a song (Insert/Movie and Sounds/Sound from File), you will Edit Sound Object (right click) to hide the icon during the slide show (or drag it off the slide). Then go to Effect Options for that sound in the Custom Animation Task Pane (right side) to set the timing and how long the sound will play. [If you want ONE song to play the entire time, it should be set to a number GREATER than the number of slides.

• When you are done, if you have already burned your disk, you will may want to record another disk with the final version of your pres. If you do NOT have PowerPoint at home...or want to be able to show your presentation on ANY computer, launch your presentation, go to the file menu, and "Package for CD". Put your CD in to the drive...and click "Copy to CD". This will put all the necessary files onto your disk, including a PowerPoint Player. You will not be able to EDIT the slideshow...but you will be able to run it.

Inserting music and preparing it to play:

 

 

 

Increase number of slides to play to double the number of slides you think you will have:

 

  

 

Package to Go (for CD, etc.):

 

 

 

Story Board Samples:

 

Hector's "My Favorite Pictures":

 

 

Other good student pres:

Sara Nguyen, Macy Riggs

 

Why use PowerPoint?

Professional/legible, Organized, Visual, Easier to make changes/edit, Cost Efficient, Make Backups, Portable, Easy to entertain, to be enthusiastic, provides visal prompts for the speaker.

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