PowerPoint Slide Show

Project Sheet – Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a graphical presentation software package designed to allow the presentation designer a wide variety of tools to make information visually pleasing.

Following an in-class tutorial, the student will create a PowerPoint slide show with a minimum of 10 slides.

The following are minimum guidelines for elements to be included at some point in the slide show:

1. animated text/bullet points
2. transitions between slides
3. action button hyperlinked to an appropriate outside website
4. Save the PowerPoint slideshow as both a PowerPoint file (*.ppt) and
as a webpage (*.htm).
5. Place the web version of the slide show in her/his teacher website created with FrontPage.

The PowerPoint slide show should follow the rules for appropriate visual design. These will be discussed in class with an accompanying handout. There are 4 basic rules to remember:

1. 36 point bold font; sans serif typeface, high contrast text;
2. graphic on left, text on right: balance is crucial;
3. slides are not cluttered: simple is best.