Make a Powerpoint presentation 2: more practice with photos and formatting text

Have you seen our first Slideshow which includes all the students' work from Week 5? You all did a great job and your work all looks good together.

This week we are going to put more images into Powerpoint slides and practice changing the format and layout of all three parts of your slide: Title, Caption and Image. Have a look at the Slide I prepared for you as a sample.

Jill's sample: image on the LEFT this time.

For this practice, I would like you to use images that are high resolution: either downloaded from your phone or camera (or from USB stick) or the ones in our shared folder.

Skills

• Find and open the Presentation you started last week.
• Change Layout of your New Slide to get ready to insert your image on the LEFT side.
• Insert and resize your image.
• Draft and type your Caption text - answering the three questions (you can see above). Get some teacher feedback on your writing.
• Change the Format of your Caption and your Title to fill the space nicely.
• Save your Presentation over the original one you did last week.

New skill: compress your photo/ slide show (to email to someone)

 

Photos that you downloaded from the internet will be quite small: 50-100 Kbs (kilobytes). However, photos from your camera or mobile phone will be much bigger: 1-3Mbs (megabytes) - that's about 1000 to 3000 Kbs. And your family and friends won't like you emailing them something as big as that.

If you want to email (or publish to the internet) your photo image or your Powerpoint presentation, you will need to compress the images (make them smaller). We can do this now (before you insert your image into a slide) OR after you have made your Slideshow presentation.

Here is a useful video that shows you how to Compress Pictures in your Powerpoint presentation.

Make a Powerpoint presentation: is graffiti art or vandalism?

While we are looking at different examples of Graffiti, it is a good opportunity to search for some photos of graffiti on the internet, save them to your Photos sub-folder and make a presentation to share with the class.

If you have taken some photos on the streets in your neighbourhood, you can also use them. You'll have to save them to your Photos sub-folder in your Folder on the Students' Drive first.

Slideshow: Examples of Graffiti in Melbourne 

I put all your slides into one presentation for people to browse. Now that you can change the size of text boxes and text, you can change the layout of each slide. Have you taken any photos yet? These photos will be a higher resolution than the ones you found on the internet. And they will look richer when you put them into your slide show. - JK: 17 May, 2013

Computer group 3 graffiti presies final compressed from Jill Koppel

Skills

• Pin the Powerpoint program (app) to your Taskbar: this is a good idea because it's a lot quicker than finding it in the Start Menu each time you want to open it.
• Open a New Presentation and type the Name of your Presentation: Is Graffiti street art or vandalism? OR Some examples of Graffiti
• Insert New Slide - and choose the Layout: Content and Captions - see the examples below.

• You can type your title and text, and insert your photo.
• You might need to change the size of the Title and Text boxes, and even the photo too.
• Have I forgotten any skills???

Get photos from the internet and create a table in Word

Find three things: healthy food or fast food?

While we're on the topic of healthy foods, here's an activity to practise the following skills:

• search for images (using Google search engine) and save them to your folder (using Save Image as);
• insert images into a doc and resize; 
• insert Symbols, like a tick and a cross;
• create a Table and navigate and edit it.

Click this link to read and follow the instructions in the document.

Can you create a document with a Table that looks similar to this?

Make a Table with different foods