Power Point Does More Than You Think:
Tricks and Tips for In-Class and Online
18 July 1999
  9:00 am to 1:00 pm  ICC  0123 

1. View the Animated Multi-Media Presentation
2. Overview and Objectives for the Session: where we are going and what we will learn
3. Something About PowerPoint II (September Session)
4. A little Pedagogical Pontification

PROCEDURE

1. Create a subdirectory in My Documents called ITS
2. Open Basic Lecture Outline.
3. Save in My Documents/ITS
4. Take a toolbar tour
5. A look at templates
6. Work with Format-->Slide Color Scheme
7. Edit text blocks in individual slides
8. A look at font and font color
9. Change Background by using View-->Master and inserting
10. Insert clip art
11. Insert images
12. Insert a new slide
13. Delete a slide
14. Transitions (transition resistance)
15. Change the Order in Slide Sorter (Cut/Paste) 
16. Insert Slide Function

NECESSARY FILES

• Download the Basic Presentation
• Download a Background
• image- telecom
• image- earth
• image-phonedial

1. Pack and Go (When to link, when to embed)
2. Rules of Thumb 
3. Making the Full Presentation available on the Web

1. Save as HTML
2. Rules of Thumb when Using the Wizard (.jpg vs. gif)
3. Frames and Notes
4. How to use just the images and create your own slide show

• How to Doodle on Screen
• Chart Magic
• Suppressing the Master
• Toggle to Link
• Right click to change Viewing Order (images or text on top or on bottom)

• The Magic Drawing Tool
• Equations, Wordart, and Other Ornaments
• Two Bad Bugs and some workarounds
• Messing with Macros

1. Overview of task
2. A look at custom animations and timings
3. A look at animation order
4. A look at adding audio and video
5. A quick look at audio/video resources on the Internet
6. Open Blank Presentation
7. Add Background to Master
8. Fix Color Scheme (Titles White, Text Dark Blue)

NECESSARY FILE

• ITS PowerPoint Background

1. Insert New Slide
2. Animate Title text "It Can Play Audio" (Zoom in from Center)
3. Insert and animate Godfather Image (Dissolve or Stretch from Right)
4. Animate text: "Marlon Brando" (Crawl from left)
5. Animate text: Vito Corleone at Daughter's Wedding" (Crawl from Bottom)
6. Insert and set timings on audio 
7. Adjust animation order and timings

NECESSARY FILES

• Godfather Image
• Godfather audio

PROCEDURE

1. Insert New Slide
2. Animate text: "Goodfellas" (Crawl from left)
3. Insert and animate Goodfellas image (Dissolve or Stretch from Right)
4. Animate text: "Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino, Robert DeNiro, and Ray Liotta:" (Crawl from bottom)
5. Insert and set timings on "aslongas" audio 
6. Adjust animation order and timings

NECESSARY FILES

• Goodfellas image
• Goodfellas audio

PROCEDURE

1. Insert New Slide
2. Animate Title text "It Can Play Movies" (Zoom in from Center)
3. Animate text: "St. Paul's Cathedral" (Crawl from bottom)
4. Animate text: "Sir Christopher Wren" (Crawl from left)
5. Animate text: "107 ft. across" (Crawl from left)
6. Animate text: "365 ft. high" (Crawl from bottom)
7. Insert and set timings on video 
8. Adjust animation order and timings

NECESSARY FILE

• St. Paul's Cathedral movie

PROCEDURE

1. Insert New Slide (chart slide)
2. Animate Title text "It Can Animate Charts" (Zoom in from Center)
3. Build sample chart
4. Animate chart 
5. Adjust animation order and timings

PROCEDURE

1. Insert New Slide
2. Animate Title text "It Can Run Animated Equations" (Zoom in from Center)
3. Insert and animate video: "Sine Wave"
4. Animate text: "Mapping the Angles of a Sine Wave to a Graph" (Stretch across)
5. Adjust animation order and timings

NECESSARY FILE

• Sine Wave Animation

PROCEDURE

1. Insert New Slide
2. Animate Title (Zoom in from Center)
3. Animate "Does More Than You Think" (Zoom Out by Word)
4. Animate "Tricks and Tips for In-Class and Online"  (Crawl from Left)
5. Animate "An Information and Telecommunications Studies Workshop" (Crawl from Bottom)
6. Add and animate laptop_umuc image (Stretch from Right)
7. Add and animate laptop_jrich image  (Dissolve)
8. Add, animate, and time the audio
9. Move slide to front using Slide Sorter

• image: laptop-umuc
• image: laptop-jrich
• audio

PROCEDURE

1. Insert New Slide
2. Insert and animate: image: Globe (Swivel)
3. Animate Title text "The Graduate School" (Zoom in from Center)
4. Animate text "The University of Maryland University College" (Crawl from Left)
5. Insert and animate Faculty image (Stretch from Right)
6. Animate text: "Information & Telecommunications Studies Workshop" (Crawl from bottom)
7. Insert and animate image: UMUC building (dissolve over globe)
8. Insert and set timings on audio 
9. Adjust animation order and timings

• image: globe
• image: faculty
• image: umuc building
• Audio