rich and powerful presentations

Digital content:

Creating Powerful Powerpoint

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NIIT University

akhlesh.agarwal@gmail.com@akhlesha

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Benefits of using Digital Content

• Is attention grabbing, more engaging, and interesting due to the use of graphics, animations and videos.

• Better understanding by students due to visualization.

• If PPT slides are shared with students via moodle CMS or email, students can pay attention to understand the concept instead of copying notes from board.

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Topics• Basics of creating Powerpoint presentations.

– Creating a new PPT, Adding slides – Views and zoom, Adding text , Color, font, size and styles – Bullets and numbering, Slide layout

• Adding multimedia – Adding images and clipart, moving images to front and back. – Adding videos– Making diagrams and flowcharts, connecting objects, grouping objects – Giving 3D effect to shapes– Rotating and aligning objects

• Animation– Animation in text and objects in slide – Animation in slide transition

• Misc – Adding slide number – Copy paste slides across PPTs– Saving in different (read-only) formats (PPS, PDF)

• Creating Content for special subjects– Mathematics– Electrical/electronics– Chemistry

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BasicsPlay around with these for sometime and you will see that you don’t need any

training for these. Its child’s play.

• Creating a new PPT• Adding slides • Views and zoom• Adding text • Bullets and numbering• Color, font, size and styles

Or Ctrl M

File -> New

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Slide layoutChoose the layout of a New slide by right click on the slide then select “Layout” option

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Selecting inside the box to type the text v/s select the box itself

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Adding multimedia• Adding images and clipart, moving images to front

and back. • Adding videos• Making diagrams and flowcharts, connecting objects,

grouping objects • Giving 3D effect to shapes• Rotating and aligning objects

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Insert imagesInsert any image to your slides from your harddisk

Multiple images / objects and foreground / background concept

Select one of these three images (Map, NIIT logo and NU logo), right click and play with options send backwards, send forward and see the effect

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ClipartsInsert from a large library of clipart available in Powerpoint.

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Adding shapes

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Using geometrical shapesTyping inside the object: F2

Click on the object and play with the green dot on top of the object to rotate

Connecting objects with arrowsWith red dots on objects

Start

Add 1 to A

A > 10

Print “Bye”

Print A

End

A = 1

Yes

No

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What are the yellow control points

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Aligning objects

Start

Add 1 to A

A > 10

Print “bye”

Print A

End

A = 1

Yes

No

Select multiple objects (press shift key and click on more objects) Then right click and try these options to align

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Use Shift key while drawing or resizing

Hold shift key to

Draw a circle vs ellipse

Draw a square vs rectangle

Draw horizontal/vertical vs slant line

Maintain aspect ratio white resizing objects

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Rotating and flipping objects

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Using special characters or mathematical symbols

αβγ δεζ ηθλ μπρφψω

Almost all language characters including Indian languages and mathematical symbols are available in the font “Arial unicode MS”

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Freehand drawing objects

Time

Spee

d

A

B

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Quick Styles – 3D and shades

Start

Add 1 to A

A > 10

Print “bye”

Print A

End

A = 1

Yes

No

Start

Add 1 to A

A > 10

Print “bye”

Print A

End

A = 1

Yes

No

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Grouping

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Start

Add 1 to A

A > 10

Print “bye”

Print A

End

A = 1

Yes

No

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Start

Add 1 to A

A >

10

Print “bye”

Print A

End

A = 1

Yes

No

Select multiple objects, then rightclick->group to copy/move or resize them as one object

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Inserting a logo or background image on all slides

1 2

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Animation

• Animation in text and objects in slide

• Animation in slide transition

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Animation• Select the object that you want to animate• Click on Animation menu tab• Select the option from the Animate drop down.• You are done with simple animation.• You can also use Custom animation button for

more advance animation affects.• Animation can be timer based or controlled by

mouse/keyboard.

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Slide transition

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Misc tasks• Adding slide number • Copy paste slides across PPTs• Saving in different (read-only) formats (PPS, PDF)• PPT Template

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Adding slide numbers

• Insert -> Header & Footer

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Copy paste across PPT files

• Switch to slide-sorter view• Select multiple slides by pressing shift • Copy (Ctrl c) from first PPT and paste (Ctrl v)

into the other PPT

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Saving in read-only formats

• PPS: Powerpoint show. Animations will work, but cannot edit.

• PDF: Save as PDF, more secure (can not be edited) but animations will not work in PDF.

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PPT Template

• Use a template to make your presentations, so that all presentations are consistent in look and feel and you don’t have to configure things like logo, header, footer, fonts, style etc.

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Creating special subject content

MathsChemistry

Electrical/Electronics

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Maths• Insert -> equation• Explore host of features to create mathematical equations in

your slides

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Chemistry

• There are several free tools to draw chemical structures: e.g.

• http://symyx-draw.en.softonic.com/• Copy paste the image from the tool to your

slide.

V

A

R1 = 10ΩR2

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3V

+ 5V

V

A

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Here are Some symbols to help you in making electrical circuits. Flip them, rotate them and connect them to make any circuit

Group and ungroup them to make more symbols as per your need

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Connecting the projector

Fn F8+

(this key combination works in Dell laptops, other brands may have different key combination to connect your laptop to projector to

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Thank you

akhlesh.agarwal@gmail.com

@akhlesha