Using PowerPoint: For ESL Students

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Using PowerPointFor ESL Students

• John Madden
• ESL Services
• Computer Lab Coordinator

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Topics

• Starting PowerPoint
• Making slides
• Making handouts
• Presenting
• Remember
• Next steps

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Starting PowerPoint

• New computers Dock PowerPoint
• Old computers
• Icon on Desktop, or
• Apple menu Applications PowerPoint.

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Making good slides

• Write short titles -- 1-3 words
• Body Write thought groups
• Short sentences, clauses or phrases
• One thought group per line
• Three or four lines per slide

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Making slides

• Use blank presentation or...

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Making slides

• Use AutoContent Wizard
• File menu Project Gallery AutoContent Wizard
  General, Generic Presentation NextNext
  Finish
• A modified classic format Tell em, Tell em,
  Tell em

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Making slides

• Colors
• Black background for a screen.
• Black and white to print
• Change color
• Format menu Slide Color Scheme
• View menu
• Normal view Slide view View slide show.

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Making slides

• Type in the outline or slides
• Convert Word to PowerPoint
• File menu Send to PowerPoint

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Printing handouts

• Use File menu Print or Apple P,
• Print dialogue box choose Microsoft
  PowerPoint.
• After Print what choose Handouts, and the
  number of slides per page you want.
• Print.

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New computers Save as PDF

• File menu Print ( or Apple P)
• Choose Save as PDF
• Name your file and Save.

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Presenting

• View menu Slide show or
• Slide Show menu View Show
• Use page up / page down keys or mouse
• Look at the audience.

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Remember

• Use Help menu.
• Keep presentations simple!
• 3-4 phrases per slide
• Work on speaking, not sides!
• Fancy presentations may crash the computer.

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Next Steps

• Make sure your slides work at ESL