About This Tutorial

This tutorial is designed to assist students in the course, ED596: Technology for Teachers, with completing their Presentation Learning Task. The tutorial is designed to support PowerPoint on both the PC and Macintosh platforms. It is not a complete tutorial for PowerPoint. For a complete tutorial, refer to the on-line Training supplied with the software or, refer to the various published works on the PowerPoint software.

Introduction

PowerPoint is a versatile presentation tool. This software has an outliner to help organize your presentation to an on-screen slide show complete with special effects. You should find this tool useful for both your presentation and your students' presentations.

Let's take a look at the PowerPoint screen:

When you start PowerPoint, you will be presented with some options. These include:

The Create a New Presentation Using window.

You may select the appropriate option.

After clicking [OK], you will be presented with the Choose an AutoLayout

Click on the AutoLayout of your choice. The default first slide is the Title. Notice that the default is highlighted with a dark border (in this example it is the Title slide). You may select any of the nine AutoLayouts by simply double clicking on the layout of your choice, or click once to select and then click on the [OK] button.

After you have gone through these introductory steps, you will be presented with the PowerPoint editor page shown at the top. You will now be ready to create your presentation.

Using the Common Tasks Menu

When you enter PowerPoint you are also presented with a "floating" Common Tasks menu palette. This palette contains three commonly used functions: New Slide, Slide Layout, and Layout Design. You can position this "floating" menu to a location of your choice.

Simply click on one of the choices with your mouse and PowerPoint will begin the operation.