Curriculum Areas: Language arts/social studies Grade Level: 3 and up Application: Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Tip: Create a personal slide show using a storyboard. Then "send" the outline to Word to write an autobiography. Description: Students create a presentation from a storyboard that contains information about their lives. What a great way for your students to get to know one another at the beginning of a new school year! Your students will learn all about the main PowerPoint features while creating their personal slide show. After the presentation is complete, they "send" the outline to Word 2002 to write an autobiography.
Older students may find it useful to start by writing an outline about their life and then fill out a storyboard. A storyboard contains boxes that the students fill in with a title and brief description of each slide (see below). Some students even like to draw a circle or box to represent a picture. The boxes can be about one-fourth of a regular sheet of paper (8.5"x 11") or larger (half of a piece of paper) if the students are younger. The more the students plan out their presentation, the easier it will be to create it in PowerPoint.
General Storyboard
How to:
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Using a storyboard, plan out the main areas of your "Let Me Tell You About Myself" slide show. Typical topics include information about when you were born, milestones during infancy, what you were like as a toddler, your first day at kindergarten, all about your family and pets, things you like to do, what you want to be when you grow up, special talents, and so on.
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Start Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, and make sure a new presentation is open.
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In the Outline view or Slides view, start typing the text for the first slide from your outline or storyboard. If you are in Outline view, press ENTER after each title to continue typing the titles for all the slides in your presentation. After you've typed the titles for all the main topics, save your file. Younger students might find it easier to type right on each slide, not in the Outline view.
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While in the Outline view, go to the slide for your first main topic (most likely slide 3), and press ENTER at the end of the title for this slide. Press TAB, and then start typing the details for this slide, which will be in the form of a bulleted list. Younger students will find it easier to type right on the slide.
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Repeat this process to type the details for the other slides of your presentation, remembering to save your file frequently.
Add a Design Template (a background and design for the slides) to your presentation by clicking the Design button on the Formatting toolbar. Scroll through the design choices, and then click the one that you like best. The entire presentation will now change to the new design.
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Add pictures to your slides from the PowerPoint clip art collection, using the Insert Clip Art button on the Drawing toolbar. Or add digital images from outside sources such as the Internet by clicking Insert, then Picture, and then From File.
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View your slide show by selecting View Show from the Slide Show menu. To move from slide to slide, click the mouse. Now try adding slide transitions so your slide show will be more enjoyable to watch. Select Slide Transition from the Slide Show menu, and then make your choices from the list of options.
Older students can write an autobiography in Microsoft Word by taking the outline from PowerPoint and "sending" it to Word, where they can expand upon their outline. With the presentation open in PowerPoint, select Send To from the File menu. Select Microsoft Word, and then select Outline Only. After a few seconds, you will see your outline in Microsoft Word. Just dive in, and type your autobiography in paragraph form.
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Add hyperlinks to slides so the slide show becomes interactive. From the Slide Show menu, click Action Buttons to place interactive icons on individual slides.
