QM4 PowerPoint: Advanced Features

Introduction

As you may have discovered, there are many different menus and tools on the PowerPoint toolbar. This Quest will focus on some more advanced features that include alignment, animation, bullets, grouping objects, slide layout, special effects with images and pictures, and transitions. You will be learning through the tutorials, trying them out, and then sharing what you have learned with others.

I Can Statements

• collaborate to create a presentation
• understand and be able to apply some advanced features to a presentation

KEY VOCABULARY

Alignment: Alignment refers to how the text flows in relation to the page or table cell. The text may be aligned left, right, center, or justified (spacing is adjusted between words to be equally between right and left borders).

Animation: Animation refers to effects that can be applied to text or objects on the slide so that they show some type of movement.

Animation sequence: When animations are formatted to do an action automatically after, before, or simultaneously with another action.

Bullets (in formatting): Bullets refers to the graphical characters, numbers, or symbols docs that are used to identify a list of items.

Drop-shadow: A drop-shadow is a visual effect where it appears there is a shadow of the object or textbox to look three-dimensional.

Layout: Slide layouts contain formatting, positioning, and placeholders for all of the content that appears on a slide.

Reflection: Reflection is an effect that creates a mirror image or part of the image is a reflection of the other part.

Slide Management: Slide management is the duplication, deletion, moving the order, and skipping slides.

Speaker Notes: Speaker notes is a Google slide feature that is a text box located below the slide to enter text to remember talking points for a presentation.

Transition: Transition are animation-like effects that occur in Slide Show view when you move from one slide to the next during an on-screen presentation.

Steps

1. Options to get started:

• Download this 11.QM4 Practice PowerPoint file and and upload it to your OneDrive folder, or save to use with your PowerPoint Desktop app.
  • You can follow along with the 11 minute Practice videos provided below.
• Open the practice presentation you created in Quest 3 or create a new blank one and try applying the effects listed in the Student Checklist.
• Use the Microsoft and 21t4s Resources in the content box below.

2. Experiment as you practice applying the different special features listed in the  the Student Checklist.

3. Caution, once you have tried out these different effects and features, remember that it is important to keep your message or topic the primary thing your audience will remember, and not that it had text or objects flying around, fancy transitions or text too hard to read. Use the features purposefully to make your points. If you are doing a report on planets or transportation, then some moving objects may help make a point standout. 

4. Decide if you want to add any special features to your planned presentation and if working with a partner or group review each of your slides to see that the effects used support your message or topic.

Completing this Quest

Once you have completed your edits and you and your teammates are satisfied, check with your teacher for approval to proceed to the next Quest and learn about different ways to present and publish your presentation. 

  Check off this Quest on the 21t4s roadmap 

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