USE OF POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS

IN WHAT WAYS CAN POWERPOINT BE USED IN ELT?

·        Students can prepare Powerpoint presentations to illustrate any short talk/presentation to the class

·        Teachers can use it to liven up grammar presentations and any other sort of presentation

·        Useful for giving presentations on projects, etc

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING POWERPOINT?

 SHOW the following table and say it will be in the files on the egroup.

HEALTH WARNING

Content is all - flashy presentations do not mask poor content.

DEMO PRESENTATION

·  Chile presentation

Your homework will be to produce a presentation of "A Country I'd like to visit".  You might even like to put it on the web (tho beware copyright if use pics)! 

What skills might students practice whilst doing an activity like this?

·        Speaking - giving presentations

·        Reading (getting stuff off internet)

·        Writing - stuff put in Presentation

·        Accuracy - grammar, vocab, spelling etc

·        Recycling search skills on the Internet

·        Developing Powerpoint skills

·        Etc

WHERE TO FIND FACTS AND FIGURES AND PHOTOS

·        http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/  Lonely Planet

·        http://www.google.com Use the Images facility to search for suitable photos

MS PowerPoint

A. A simple introduction

1. Make a shortcut to PowerPoint on your desktop:

                                                                                       a. Start/All Programs/Microsoft PowerPoint/Right Click/Copy

2. Open PowerPoint from your Desktop Shortcut

3. Click New From Design Template:

4. Scroll down the design template options. Click to see the design on your slide. Try out several template options.

5. Click inside the ‘title’ box and type a title, e.g. My Home Town

6. Click inside the ‘subtitle’ box and type a subtitle (e.g. the name of your home town). Then click outside the box to see it properly.

7. Save (and name) your file in the Desktop.

8. Click View/Header and Footer:        

9. Type in your name in the ‘Fixed’ box; click ‘Apply to All’.

11. In the right column (‘Apply Slide Layout’), locate and click the Text and Content Layouts: ‘Title Text and Content’.

12. Click inside the ‘Click to add a title’ box and type ‘Facts’

13. In the ‘Click to add text’ box, type a few simple facts about your home town (e.g. the location, population etc. ). Press ‘Enter’ after each fact to create a new bullet point. 

14. Move into the right hand box and click on ‘Insert Clip Art’

15. Scroll down the selection and choose an image to insert.

16. Once the image is in your slide you may wish to scale it down and/or move it. Save your slide show. (Keep saving all through the creation process.)

B. Adding Text Animation and Slide Transitions

1.      From the left column, click on your first slide again.

2.      Click the ‘Other Task Panes’ arrow; select ‘Slide Transition’.

3.      Try out some of the choices of transition effects you can have, between slide changes.

4.   Use the ‘play’ button to see how the transition would look. When you’re satisfied with your choice, click ‘Apply to All Slides’

5.      Go back to the ‘Other Task Panes’ arrow and select ‘Slide Design – Animation Schemes’. Again try out the schemes and make a choice to apply to all slides. Don’t forget to ‘Save’.

C. Viewing the slide show

1.      After saving, Click ‘Slide Show/View Show’

2.      Click through the slide show as necessary

3. At the end of the slide show (very short at present!) click to return to PowerPoint editing mode.

4.      Continue to build slides for your slide show

5.      Try out different colour schemes, transitions, animation, fonts, even sounds if you wish (‘Insert/Movies and Sounds’). Download some pictures, which depict your town, from the internet, e.g. Google’s image search.

6. When you find a picture you like, right click on it, ‘save it as’ and name it; save it to somewhere you will be able to find later.