Text Power Points

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This page gives detailed instructions on how to create a power point presentation.

Your task is to create a Powerpoint that explains some aspects of Marae protocol.

Use digital camera photographs (.jpg files) or clipart (.gif files) from the website for illustrations. Instructions below.

• Save clipart from the clipart collection at the websites (maori.org.nz   and  teara.govt.nz) into a folder on the computer hard drive.
• Take and save digital photographs into the same folder on the computer hard drive.
• Use the photographs and clipart to illustrate the Power Point presentation.
• Record protocol in text boxes, one 'rule' per slide.
• Add Custom animation effects.
• If time allows, add personalised sound files by reading the text aloud into the computer sound recorder and saving the sound (.wav) file in the same folder as the clipart (.gif) and photographs (.jpg).

Clipart instructions
To save clipart from the website to a computer file: Right mouse click on the clipart picture. Left mouse click 'Save picture as' or similar option (browsers vary) Choose a folder in which to save the picture, name it appropriately and click 'Save'.

Power Point Instructions:

If you can use text boxes, Word Art and insert pictures, in MS Word, this will be easy!

Getting Started

To Make a Slide:

1. Open Microsoft Power Point
2. Choose the 'template' option
3. Click 'OK'
4. Have a look at all the template options by clicking once on one then looking at the thumbnail version appearing on the right.
5. Decide on one and double click it.
6. Choose a layout. I recommend choosing the blank one. Then click 'OK'
7. Begin to place writing and pictures onto the slide:
   • use text boxes or WordArt to write and position.
   • Insert pictures by using the 'Insert' drop down menu along the top. ('Insert'>'picture'> 'clipart'/or 'from file)
8. Save.
9. Create the next slides by using the 'Insert' drop down menu along the top. Insert, new /or duplicate slide.
10. Add text and pictures to this slide by inserting a text box then keying in words or inserting a picture from a saved file.
11. When you save, you don't need a new name, the WHOLE slide show saves as one item, no matter how many slides you make.
12. To see all the slides on one screen, use the 'View' drop down menu and click 'Slide Sorter'. You can insert more slides here and also rearrange slides by dragging them.

Choosing animated options

1. Once you have made at least one slide, experiment with the 'Custom Animation'. Find this in the 'Slide Show' drop down menu along the top.
2. At 'Custom Animation' you can animate each text box, word art and picture separately so that they appear on the screen consecutively either after a mouse click or automatically. I recommend automatic, with 2 or 3 seconds between items.
3. After timing animation has been set, move to the next tab, called 'Effects' and set the direction and way the items will appear and then the sound if desired.
4. Save and view the slide show by using the 'Slide Show' drop down menu along the top and clicking on View Show.

Making sound .wav files

1. Make your own sound files to insert by using the sound recorder (Find this by clicking Start> Programmes> Accessories> Sound Recorder.)
2. Make a short sound file by clicking 'record', (the red button), talking, then clicking the 'stop' button. Save it. If you want to make more than one, or replace one, click on the 'File' dropdown menu and then click 'New'
3. In Power Point, go back to 'Custom Animation' on the slide on which you want to insert this sound. Find this in the 'Slide Show' dropdown menu
4. In 'Custom Animation', click the 'Effects' tab, then in the 'Sound' slot, scroll down and click 'Other Sound'.
5. In the 'Look In' slot at the top, use the little black triangle at the side to tell the computer where to look for your saved sound file.
6. Save and view the slide show. Use the 'SlideShow' drop down menu, click 'View'
7. Add more slides or alter existing ones.