In this article, we're gonna look at how to get started using Microsoft PowerPoint in the classroom and this is basically, the beginner's guide to using PowerPoint so if you've never used PowerPoint.
I'm just gonna go ahead and click on it to open it up now even though this is PowerPoint 2019 if you have an older version of PowerPoint this article is still, a good one to watch because the same basic functionality will still work in older versions of PowerPoint going back all the way to about 2007 so if your version of PowerPoint is 2007 or newer you're good to go with this tutorial.
On the left side of the On-screen, I have a little thumbnail of the same slide so this small rectangle represents this larger slide to begin creating my PowerPoint it's as simple as clicking here.
If you've maybe used it a little bit but been kind of intimidated by it, this is the video for you let's get started using PowerPoint I'm just gonna go down here and I've got it pinned to the taskbar down here and you can see that this is PowerPoint 2019.
Now, what if you have a future version of PowerPoint that comes out maybe in 2021 or whatever the same thing applies this video will probably still be very applicable to you and you're a version of PowerPoint.
Also true of Mac if you have PowerPoint on the Mac it's gonna be a little different but I still hope that you'll enjoy watching this presentation and that it'll be applicable to you so as you can tell PowerPoint has loaded up and at.
At this point, I can do one of a couple of different things I could simply click where it says blank presentation and get started using PowerPoint, and most often that's what I do that's the most common option at least for me.
I prefer I could go over here and select one of these different templates or styles and it will get the template details and then if I like it I can choose to create a presentation in that style and so that's another option that you do have is to pick one of these pre-made templates are really what they are templates so I could pick one of those create it.
Begin making a PowerPoint another thing you can do is go up to the top here and click search for online templates and themes so I could click there and do a search for let's say a business presentation.
It's looking online to see if there are any PowerPoint templates or themes that might fit that description of the business presentation and as you can see it found several results and I could go ahead.
click let's say like this one I could click to create a presentation based on that template so it's definitely worth looking through these results searching here and looking at the templates that are available here but lucky said more often than not I just open up PowerPoint and I click the blank presentation that opens up PowerPoint.
Let's take a minute to talk about the layout that we have to work with here there's some terminology that you'll need to know first, we have tabs across the top of each of these is a tab and when you click on a tab gives you a series of tools on something that they called the ribbon.
I click the Home tab it gives me the home ribbon and I get a whole bunch of these tools now these tools are organized and grouped together in groups so we have a slides group a clipboard group a font group a paragraph group.
If I click on the design tab I get a themes group a variance group and a customized group and so forth.
So it's important to know that terminology now a few of these groups also have a little button called the launch button and the purpose of the launch button is this Microsoft has tried to put all of the options for fonts.
For example here in this group but there are too many options to fit they just don't fit in the space available and so if you click in a text area and then click on that launch button it launches additional options that you can use that couldn't fit in such a small space here and so that's the purpose of the launch button so to review we have tabs each tab gives us a ribbon.
The ribbon is made up of groups and some of the groups have launch buttons ok that's enough to talk about the layout of PowerPoint itself but now let's look at the components of my actual presentation.
We have on the screen a slide this is slide number 1 and this is where I can do the editing for this slide.
where it says DoubleTap to add a title now that sounds like it's talking about a tablet but I'm on a laptop here so it's kind of funny that it says it that way in your version of PowerPoint it probably will just say click to add a title so don't be thrown off by that so I'll just click there and add the title of my presentation which is gonna be the parts of speech.
I just type that right in and then I can click here to add a subtitle this could be my name it could be the class that this is part of or it could be something else in this case I just need a second title so the parts of speech a review so I am basically done now with slide number one the downside though is this slide looks kind of plain ok it's just black and white mostly white and that just doesn't look that great so in order to remedy that situation I'm just gonna go up here.
where it says design and I click and there's a bunch of design themes that I can choose from now these themes it looks like there are seven of them seven or eight but I can click here on this arrow and that gives me many many more to choose from now if this still doesn't enough remember that back on that first screen.
when I open up PowerPoint there were options to look online to get additional themes so don't worry if you think that there are not enough themes there are so many more that I can get online and use in PowerPoint all right.
I'm gonna go with this one here but there are so many different nice themes to choose from and as you can see when you put your mouse over them you get a preview of what they would look like and so it's really handy and nice to be able to just get a sense of what you are the presentation would look like with different themes I'm gonna stick with this one is called slice so I click on it.
It's applied to this slide great so I am done with slide one.
Now I want to create slide number two but how do I do that well there are a couple of different ways first I could go to the home button and go to the home ribbon and what Microsoft has done is they've put all of the most commonly used and needed features here on the home ribbon so when you click home you're getting the most common features the best stuff that's used the most and that's where I'll find a new slide so I click the new slide.
Slide number two now you'll notice a difference between slide 2 and slide 1 is set up to be the title slide of this presentation and so the text is specifically placed in a different area of the screen to show that this is special this is the opening slide the title slide but I'm gonna go back to slide number 2 and you can see it's different.
Okay so I will click to add my title and you know what I'm noticing this is kind of a funny layout I was not expecting this but the title is at the bottom of the screen okay so let's say I want to focus on nouns I can just type the nouns and my title is at the bottom, to be honest, this is just a little bit too radical for me so in just a minute I'm gonna change it up but for now.
I'm just clicking to put in the content in addition to the title of this slide. I'll just put an in-person place thing sometimes people say the idea is a separate category for nouns.
So I guess I'll throw that in too so there we go I'm done with this second slide but, to be honest, I just this is too much for me I'm not used to having the title of the individual slide at the bottom of the screen.
So I'm just gonna have to go back up to design and I'm gonna have to pick a different design theme maybe this one but isn't that nice that you can change your mind at any time in the creation process.
Even after you've used the presentation with the class if you decide now that didn't quite work the way I was hoping just go in and choose a different theme.
It reorders everything notices that my text moved the fonts all changed and it was done very easily so I like the look of that a little bit better I guess I'm a traditionalist.
okay so that is one way to add another slide you just go to the Home tab home ribbon in the slides group you click a new slide now some of these buttons especially the larger buttons in PowerPoint will have two parts to the button they don't all have it but many do the top part is just a simple
one-click option if I click here I'll get a new slide but the bottom part if you click gives you additional options so watch for that sometimes the additional options are pretty exciting.
For example, if I just click a new slide it gives me a generic blank new slide but if I go here to the
the bottom part of the I click and I can get a slide that's good for comparison it's got two sections.
I can compare and contrast these two items here's an option for the picture with a caption there's an option for a three-picture column so some nice options here that I might otherwise miss.
Now, I do want to show you another way to add a new slide to my presentation and to be honest, this is what I do more often than not I typically don't go up to the top of the screen and click here on the new slide instead, I just go here right-click and choose a new slide.
So and so for me, that's a shortcut it's easier for me just because I don't have to go all the way up here I know I'm kind of lazy that way but that's what I prefer just right-clicking and choosing a new slide.
Okay now I've got too many slides so I'm just gonna delete using Delete on the keyboard or you can also right-click and choose to delete slide okay next up before I go on to this third slide I'm gonna jump back to slide number two because I want to add some visual elements to this presentation.
We can use PowerPoint effectively it's meant to be a visual tool but if all we do is put text on the
slides and especially put lots of text it'll drive people crazy and you're missing out on the potential power of PowerPoint.
Let's look at how to add some visual elements to this in addition to the theme and the background that's here well what I would do to add some visuals is click here on insert.
When I do that it gives me a bunch of different things I can insert in this session I'm gonna focus just on a few of these and let's focus right now on images so I can go here in the images group.
I'm going to click on pictures so insert pictures and from here I'm gonna just quickly here jump to photos.
There and because this photo was on my computer it was easy for me to click insert pictures
and find it and upload it but I don't know if I have a picture of a famous person on my computer or of a place.
I don't know if I've got that well look here in the images group there is an option for online pictures and this is really good just click that and Microsoft will open up a portal basically to the Internet.
You can do searches from right within PowerPoint and you can find images to use notice it is a being image search which makes sense being Microsoft PowerPoint so I'm going to do a search for a famous person.
I select that image I click insert and that image is added to my presentation isn't that nice I can do the same to find an example of a place I'll just do a search for Florida.
You'll notice that things are loading faster now the first time that you insert an online picture it may be a little delayed so don't be discouraged if that first time it's kind of slow here's a nice picture of Florida that I'd like to use so I just clicked on it to select it.
I click insert and it pulls that image into my presentation now you probably noticed that I am resizing these images just by clicking on the corner you'll notice that there are handles.
That's what they're called that's the official term and each of these handles will change the image in some way so you can see that one distorted it and so I want to actually undo that change up here in the upper left corner there is an undo button so I can click that to undo and that's fixed the mistake.
I made there is also a redo button that will appear only after you undo something all right so there's my image I'm gonna make it a little smaller again and then you may notice that some of these images are actually all of them.
I believe when you click on them get this arrow this is the circular arrow at the top when you click on that circular arrow, it gives you the ability to very easily rotate the image so that you can tilt it if you'd like to so I've got a person I've got a place I've got a thing what about an idea.
I'm gonna click back to slide number one and I'll go down to the bottom of the screen and I'm gonna click here where it has this slideshow symbol and I'll click and it starts my slideshow.
The parts of speech a review remember this is the title slide I want to advance now to the first real
content slide.
I just tap on the keyboard and I like to tap the right arrow on the keyboard so you just tap that and it advances the slide the left arrow reverses and goes back one slide at a time you can also use the down arrow and the up arrow to do the same thing but I prefer the right arrow.
On the left, some people actually prefer the spacebar if you tap the spacebar it advances the slide is nice because the spacebar is a big button you can also hit enter.
There are several different ways that you can advance this slide for most teachers presenters and business people, most of us end up getting a presenter remote which is kind of a nice thing if you're interested in a presenter remote.
It's a bride discussion of Microsoft PowerPoint.
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