PowerPoint

Moving Posters for MFL

How can I use it?
 To present topics or grammar to students
 To publicise the MFL department
 To produce animated posters
 To produce lively reading comprehensions
for peers
 To provide illustration/ notes to
accompany a talk (on exam oral topic)
 As an aid to revision
Basic Presentations
 Open up PowerPoint (PP)
 Opt for “blank presentation”
 Each separate screen is called a slide
 Choose the layout you prefer for each slide
 Type in text. Press return for bullet points.
 For accents go to“Insert” in menu bar, then
“Symbols”
 For next slide, click on “Insert” and “New slide”
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 Edit text by clicking on the slide you want
to alter on the left of the screen
 Save as you go along!
 Once the text is complete, play with the
various options to animate and design.
 Save and view your show
Design
 “Insert” pictures or
movies
 “Format” background
colours or design
templates and fonts
Animation
 Go to “Slide Show”
and use pre-set or
custom animation
 Slides can proceed
on a mouse click or
automatically.
 If the latter you can
rehearse the timings
 Alter Slide Transition
Sound effects
 To suit topic
 Fun, but don’t overdo
it!
Viewing Slides
 Different slide views can be accessed by
clicking on symbols at bottom left of
screen
 Once all slides are viewed you can select
and alter slides as wish
 In the normal viewing mode click on the
slide summaries in the left column to drag,
alter or delete
Importing text from WP
 Identify a section of text you want to use
 Mark out headings and sub-headings
 “Normal text” will be ignored
 Copy the section of text into a new document
 Select all and go to “File”, “Send” and “Send to
PowerPoint”
 Or, simply copy a chunk of text into PP and edit
Notes
 Notes can be added to the bottom of the
page to assist the speaker in their
presentation
 These can be visible or invisible to
audience
Printing Options
 Go to “File” and “Print”
 Look at the “Print what” box
 Options include 1,3,6 or 9 slides a page
 Handouts with 3 slides also have lines for
audience to make notes
 Print in back and white to save time and money
 To print YOUR notes, save the presentation as a
web-page (in the “File” menu) first, or select
“print notes”
Help menu
 As always, key words can be searched for
help on particular points to teach yourself
more!
 Encourage students to use this too.