Mark Redgrave’s PowerPoint Presentation

Staff Professional DevelopmentNotes

Powerpoint: Zeta Pringle

May 4th 2010

How to get started

First things First

• Look at other people’s presentation

• Look online

• Viewing other staff’s work

Microsoft Office

• Step by step• Click on Start• Click on All Programmes• Go to Microsoft Office• Head to PowerPoint• Then you are there !!!!!!!• Stage one done

Sequence of events

• Before you start working

• Save to a folder, Save As .. ppt or ppx file

• Then work on your presentation

• Then continue to save as you go

• Press F5 to view your presentation

Best Practice

• Begin work on white background

• Minimum Information per slide

• 8 Words per bullet point only if presenting new information

(research show people don’t read after 8th word)

• No more than 4 Bullet point preferably 3 only

• Simple and clean

• Interactive: Provide work to accompany the power point

Point to be aware of

• Keep it simple

• Pictures to match notes

• Interactive

• Things for students to do (Quiz)

Name the what is happening?

Layout

• Click on Home

• Make a title page

• Proceed to Layout

• Located beside new Slide

• Select an option

Examples of other people’s work

Once started then make up your slides

Page Layouts

Images

Insert Button

Inserting Pictures

• Click on pictures• It should then take you to “my documents” • Open My Pictures• Select image• Then resize using the height and width on tool

bar

Design Function

Set up page with words then try the various options by placing the cursor on each image

Try Colours option

Try Font Styles

Look at effects

Look at Background Styles

Other options

Animations

Click on the different choice to see what is available

Click on Page then click on Add effects

Shrinking Picture

Pulling the page in by corners

Using Format and Cropping

Happy Production

Do not be frightened to ask for assistance and experiment

From the team

Mark Redgrave

Mountainview High School