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Cruising Around Pahokee
A Power Point Slide Show
Start Power Point from your programs menu. Choose blank presentation from your start up menu, then select OK. Choose the blank page from your auto layout, then click OK. You are going to make a title page for your slide show. The first thing you will create is the title and you will use WordArt to accomplish this. Find the blue capital A on your WordArt toolbar. If you don't see it, click view on your standard toolbar, select toolbars, then select WordArt. The toolbar will then open and you should now see the blue capital A. Click on the WordArt button to open the WordArt Gallery. Select a WordArt style from the given selection by double clicking on the style. The Edit WordArt Text dialog box will open. Choose the font style and size that you want for your text. Place your cursor in the Text box and type the title of your slide show "Cruising Around Pahokee," then click OK. Notice that small white boxes appear around the text. You can resize your text by holding down the left mouse button and dragging your text till you get it the size you want. You can also move the text around the page by moving your cursor around your text until an arrow appears. This lets you know that if you now hold down the left mouse button, it will allow you to move the text instead of resize it. Now you will experiment with formatting the WordArt text. Right click on your text, then choose format WordArt A box will open with several options to choose from. Experiment with the fill colors and fill effects choice to see how it effects your text. Also experiment with the size and position options to see how your text changes. Now you will insert two text boxes that will display the words "by" and "your name." You will need to select the text button to open the text box which will hold these words. The text button is a square with a capital A with horizontal lines inside. If you don't see this button, click view on your standard toolbar, then select toolbars, then drawing from your selection list. In the first text box type the letter by and in the second type your name. Position them on your page where you get the best effect.The next thing you will do is add a background to the title slide. Choose format from the standard toolbar, then select background. Locate the blank line at the bottom of the slide. Click on the arrow to open a selection list. Look at the fill effects option first, then the colors to find the right background for your presentation. When you have found the background you want, click the apply button, not the apply to all because we only want the background to appear on the title page. You will now add transitions to your WordArt and the two text boxes to give your presentation a more professional look. Click on the WordArt text box to activate it. Find your animation effects button on your animation effects toolbar (if you don't see it click view, toolbar, then animation effects) and click on it. It is the button that has the blue arrow pointing right. The custom animation box will open. You will need to select the text you want to apply the transition to. Place a checkmark in the box beside the text boxes until you find the box that places small white boxes around the word by. When you place a checkmark in the box beside the text, it will unlock the effects panel. Choose several different effects to see how each look by clicking on the preview button after each selection.Now you will insert a new slide that will contain the graphics that represent a cruise through Pahokee. Your entire slide show will contain your title page along with four slides. You will save these graphics to your student folder (right click on image, chose save as, then type in the name you assign to the graphic). You want to choose things that are representative of this area (corn fields, rabbits, the marina, the lake, sky diving, etc.) Some useful web sites are:
You can also do a search for your graphics by name (car graphics, palm tree animated gifs, etc.) by going to Yahoo.com web page and typing your search word in the search box.To insert a new slide, locate the common task button on your status bar, click the down arrow key and choose new slide. Another way to create a new slide is to click insert from your standard toolbar, then select new slide from the drop down list. Choose the blank slide then click OK.You will now become aquatinted with your drawing toolbar. To make sure it is open, click view, and if a check appears by drawing toolbar, it is open in your program. The drawing toolbar is located at the bottom of your screen. You will first create a road like the image below. First, click the rectangle on your drawing toolbar, then drag the rectangle to fit across you slide. Click the arrow by the paint can button to choose the color of your road, then click in the rectangle to fill it with color. Now you will create small rectangles to represent the lines in the road. Fill these lines with a yellow color. When you have the road the way you want it, you will group them together so the road becomes one. While holding down your shift key, click all the rectangle to select them, then right click, chose grouping, the select group. Now try to move the road. All the rectangles have become one object. If you want to edit them in the future, right click again on the road, select grouping, then select ungroup.
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Next, find a car graphic and insert it on your page. You don't have to have an animated car because you can apply the transition of having the car move across the page. When you have your car graphic in place, continue applying graphics that represents the surroundings in Pahokee. You will continue adding three more slides, representing three different scenes you might see in town. For example, one slide could represent the airport where skydivers are filling the sky. Another slide could be of the Pahokee Marina and campground where you would use boats, jetskies, fishing, etc. to represent activities that take place there. Use the different features on the drawing toolbar to add your own art work to the page. Every student will have a different slide show, representing different scenery's in Pahokee. When you have all your slides and transitions in place, you will need to set the slide timing in order to control the time a slide appears on the page. Follow the below directions to set the timing on your slide show:
- Click on the Slide Sorter View button located at the bottom left side of your screen (it has four squares on the button).
- Click Slide 1, then click the Rehearse Timing button (the button that looks like a alarm clock) on the Slide Sorter toolbar. A small timing box appears in the lower-left corner of the screen with a current accumulated time for the slide. You can click the timing box or the slide to accept the time and continue to the next slide.
- Click each slide to give it a slide time
- Click Yes to record the new slide timings
- Click View on the menu bar, click Slide Show. Your slide show should proceed with the timing you have entered
The last thing you need to do is add some cruising music to your file. Save the midi file below and embed it in your presentation.
Save and close the presentation
