PowerPoint

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MultimediaA powerful blend of text, graphics, sound, animation, and video on your computer.

Multimedia is an effective way of communicating information.

Multimedia is used in games, business presentations, interactive tutorials, and information kiosks.

PowerPoint

One way we create multimedia presentations is in PowerPoint

Tips To Making A Better Presentation

Choose a color scheme with no more than 4 different colors

Make sure background color and font color is contrasting (easy to read)

Limit animations and sounds Use bullet statement (not paragraphs) Check spelling and capitalization Limit pictures per slide Balance text, pictures and white space

Creating a PowerPoint Using the Design Templates

When you open PowerPoint you will see a blank slide. You may add a preset design template to make your slide presentation colorful.

1. Select the Design Ribbon2. Choose the Theme Group

Changing the Background Instead of using the design

template you may customize your background.

1. Select the Design Ribbon2. Choose the Background Group

Slide Layout

The layout of the slide is how the text and information will appear.

1. Select the Home Ribbon2. Choose the Slides Group

Adding a New Slide

Once you have finished with your first slide you will have to add additional slides to complete your presentation

1. Select the Home Ribbon2. Choose Slides Group

Adding Pictures/Clip Art

To make your presentation really exciting you can add pictures and clip art.

You may also insert pictures, that you have saved in a file

1. Select the Insert Ribbon2. Choose the Images or Illustrations

Group

Narration

You can narrate your presentation by recording your own voice.

1. Select the Insert Ribbon2. Choose the Media Group

Note-you will need to hook a microphone to your computer

Sound and Video To make your presentation really exciting

you can add sounds such as music or Video clips.

You may also insert movies and sounds that you have saved in a file.

1. Select the Insert Tab2. Choose the Media Clip Group

More Enhancements – Custom Animations

After you complete your presentation you can make it really exciting by adding animations to your text and graphics. Animations will create movement to your presentation and make it exciting.

1. Select the Animations Ribbon

Slide Transition Last but not least you can change

how your slides transition from slide to slide. This means do you want to have you presentation move by mouse click or to play by itself like a movie.

1. Select the Transitions Ribbon2. Choose the Transition to This Slide Group3. Go to the Timing Group and choose how

you want to advance your slide.

Printing a Presentation

Click on the Office Button and choose Print

Under Settings, Full Page Slides select handout – 6 slides per page.

Change the color to pure black and white.

Click OK