Power Point Macul

PowerPointTips

Melissa White

REMC 13 Supervisor of Media and Technology

mwhite@inghamisd.org

When Teaching Use It For…

Introducing a New Concept or Idea

Have Students Create a Slide/Slides To Demonstrate

Something

Advertise your product!

Use it like HyperStudio with links to another page

I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet OFF the ground. What am I?

Answer:

It is a Wheelbarrow

Teaching How To Use The Online Card Catalog

PowerPoint Can Be Used For…

Printing handouts so teachers and students have the

presentation

Illustrating Sound

Use a Music CD or record a voice

Capturing ImagesCapture images off the Internet

Capture images from your desktop

Capture images from any document that you are working on

On a PC hold down your Alt and Print Screen keys. Then in PowerPoint go to edit and paste.

On a MAC hold down the Apple, shift and the number three. It will be saved on the desktop. Then do an Insert picture from the desktop.

Book Promotions

Book Fair Previews

Setting Up Your Show for Maximum Performance

You may advance the show manually with your mouse, Enter key, or space bar.

You may use the “looping continuously” option

Use the “looping continuously”option for…

Promoting your school on televisions in the hallway and classrooms daily or during an open house

Take pictures of student work with a digital camera

Post the hot lunch menu and events of the day

Use the “looping continuously”option for…

Classroom and Library Rules

Use the “looping continuously”option for…

Events of the Day

Use the “looping continuously”option for…

An icebreaker activity that should be done when entering the classroom

Class assignments

Things to Watch Out For…

PowerPoint presentations can get quite large.

Burn it on CD

Minimize graphics and sound so it fits on a floppy

Use a Zip Disk

Helpful Hint: To check size of PowerPoint go to File on your Menu then click on Properties and then General.

Avoid bells and whistles if doing a board presentation

Limit Bullets that come across the page

You may want to forgo sound that goes with them.

This can be turned on and off by going to Slide Show on the menu bar and then going to Custom Animation.

Limit your text!

Use a Data Projector if at all possible

Don’t read From Your PowerPoint!!!!

Use it as a backdrop to what you are teaching or presenting

Have it playing in the background with music and pictures to illustrate the points you are trying to make

Clipart Sites

http://www.all-free-clipart.com/ offers thousand of graphics sorted by categories that include education, animals, business and entertainment.

http://dgl.microsoft.com/ Over 120,000 items to choose from

http://www.barrysclipart.com/ Offers quality Internet graphics, clip art, and GIF images.

http://webclipart.miningco.com/internet/webclipart Includes an A-Z topic listing, Best of the Net clipart winners, featured clip art sites and more.

http://www.desktoppublishing.com/cliplist.html Original clip art and links to many other clip art sites

Animated GIF Sites

http://animatedgif.net/ Still a great site for animation, but recently have added naughty and violent GIFS.

http://www.animation-central.com/ Free clip art, animated images and web graphics

http://www.gifart.com/ Over 10,000 GIF formatted web graphics, including 3D animation

http://bellsnwhistles.com/ A great site to go for free backgrounds, non-animated graphics and GIF-animated graphics