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Timeline Project

Your teacher will ask you to use one or more method of transferring the completed project to him. Methods may include the following:

• Use your teacher's Drop Folder
• Burn your presentation to a CD
• Use a Flash drive (usb memory stick)
• Email the presentation

• Instructions for using Excel for a timeline
• Color printer access - LS Lab, US #220, and Science building
• Information on Image size and type in the PowerPoint section below, also apply to Excel

PowerPoint - Images

• Don't copy and paste images from the Internet into PowerPoint. Right-click and use SaveAs instead; otherwise you may be pasting a linked image rather than just the image.
• Inserted images should not be .bmp files. Use .jpg or .gif.

  How can you tell?

  If you save the file from the internet, right-click it and choose Save As. In the file type choose jpeg (or jpg)

• PhotoShop Elements and IrfanView are installed on all student machines, if you need to do additional image editing.  is in US #220 and a couple of copies are installed in the US lab.
• Use the Picture toolbar to edit photos in PowerPoint. (Click on the picture and the toolbar usually appears. If it does not go to the View menu, Toolbars and click Pictures)

You can download IrfanView  http://www.irfanview.com/ on your home computer. It is a very good free, small program. 

Image in the Background

• If your image is already faded so that it will not compete with any text, right-click your slide, choose Background, and click the down-arrow indicated to the right. Choose Fill effects, the Picture tab and Select Picture.
• If your image is not already faded, put the picture in by going to the Insert menu, Picture, From file (or copy and paste it.) Resize and Crop the image if necessary. 

Right-click the picture and choose Format Picture. Select the Picture tab and change the color from Automatic to Watermark.

If the image is lighter than you want, add more contrast and less brightness until you are happy with the results. Note that you can Preview the results by clicking the Preview button in the dialogue box.

Insert a Textbox on top of the image, if needed, and make sure your text size and color are readable. If you already had a text box and the image is in front of it, right-click the image, choose Order, and Send to the Back.

Important note: Create a folder for your Presentation. Save the PowerPoint presentation and any sound files in there. Insert the sound files into PowerPoint after they have been saved to the folder to maintain the proper path (link) on someone else's computer. You will move this entire folder to your teacher's Drop Box or burn it on your CD. If you are playing a music cd, this step is not needed.

• Insert menu, Movie and Sounds, Sound from File or Play CD Audio Track.
• I usually choose Play on mouse-click
• Drag the sound icon into the gray area of your screen.
• Right-click it and choose Custom Animation

Settings - PowerPoint 2000

• Be sure that there is a checkmark next to the word Media in the top box
• Set the automatic timing to whatever you want or use On mouse clickNext pick the Multimedia Settings tab
• Choose Continue slide show
• Pick the number of slides you want the song to play for

Settings - PowerPoint 2003

In the Taskpane select the sound and click the arrow to the right. Next choose Effect Options. Go to each of the tabs and make your choices.

Additional Formatting Ideas for Your PowerPoint

• Use elements of the Drawing Toolbar
• Right-click and choose Background and choose a color for your background
• Use a prepackaged Design Template - right-click and choose Apply Design Template. Scroll down to see a sample of each. Save your document before you apply a design template.
• Remember to use the undo button if you make a mistake.

Bulleted Points - Animation

• Remember the 6x6 rule of thumb (no more than 6 words across, 6 words down)
• After entering all bulleted points, right-click and choose Custom Animation
• Put a checkmark in the box at the top that corresponds with your bulleted points
• Pick your effects (and sound, if needed) judiciously
• Don't have text cross other text or images, if possible

• Consider having your bulleted point dim after you are through talking about that point. To do so, in the Taskpane click the event and click the right-arrow next to it. Choose Effect Options. You will get the screen shown on the right. Clcik the arrow next to Don't Dim and change the color to one that is lighter than the original color. I often choose gray.

Plan Your Presentation

Storyboard to plan slide show (Word doc)

More PowerPoint tutorials are linked from the Student Tech Tips page.

Remember that content is more important than glitz, but you can have fun being creative with this project.

Links to images for class practice

Maps   Chagal Bible Images   LaHaye's Figures de la Bible

Use Google's Images tab for your class project image search.

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