EdF 315 The PowerPoint Virtual Museum

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1 EdF 315 The PowerPoint Virtual Museum Most of us are familiar with using PowerPoint to deliver a presentation. In this assignment you will use PowerPoint to create one room of a virtual museum that gives nonlinear access to information about the pictures hanging on your museum wall. The concept can be useful in the K12 arena for creating student assignments, designing classroom instruction that you deliver, and as an alternate presentation format for almost any audience. What you ll do: 1. Select a topic, find (or take) 5 (or more) digital images related to your topic. You should also develop a one-paragraph information chunk to go along with each picture. 2. Construct a museum room in PowerPoint as per the instructions in your handout. 3. Hang your pictures on the walls of your museum as per the instructions in your handout. 4. Add your full-length green screen shot to your museum room. (You may shoot a new green screen shot, if you want to.) Important Note: When you cut your full length photo out you will need to save it as a.gif instead of a.jpeg. Otherwise you will have a white background on your photo. 5. Add a detail slide for each picture. The slide will contain a larger version of the picture, a title of some kind that identifies the picture, and the paragraph that you developed in step 1 above. 6. Add navigation links: a. Make each picture hanging on a wall in your museum room into a clickable link to the related detail slide. b. Add a button that will allow the user to return to the museum room from each detail slide. This button should be placed on the Slide Master as explained in the instructions. (See the last page of this document) 7. Save your PowerPoint presentation in two formats and create links for both files: a. As a regular PowerPoint Presentation (.ppt) b. As a PowerPoint Show (.pps) 8. Add an entry to your Google Pages assignment page that: a. names the Assignment, b. create links to both your.ppt and your.pps files on your U: drive, c. gives a one or two sentence description of the assignment 9. Add an entry to your Google Pages reflection page that: a. briefly describes your experiences with this project and describe one way you might adapt this concept to your future classroom.

2 BUILDING A ROOM IN PERSPECTIVE Before you begin you must get the following toolbars >From AUTOSHAPES (located on the Draw toolbar) select Basic Shapes and tear off the toolbar. >From the DRAW button select Rotate or Flip and tear off the toolbar >From the DRAW button select Order and tear off the toolbar Now, let s begin 1. Make a new, blank slide (Insert>New Slide) 2. From the Basic Shapes toolbar, select the rectangle tool ( ) and draw a large-sized rectangle on the left side of the slide. This is the left wall of the museum. (see picture below) 3. Locate the Trapezoid tool ( ) on the basic shapes toolbar and draw a on your slide. The will not be facing the correct way. You will fix that in the next step. 4. Highlight the and click on the Rotate Left button (Rotate or Flip Toolbar) if you are doing a wall located to your left, or the Rotate Right button if you are drawing a wall located to your right 5. Stretch the so that it touches the top and bottom corners of the rectangle (first wall) 6. By moving the yellow diamond, you can change the height of the wall. 7. Follow directions in diagram below to complete your room. First wall, rectangle Second wall, and rotate it to the left Third wall, rectangle that meets the corners of the Fourth wall, and rotate to the right. Use the yellow diamond to change size. Fifth wall, make it meet the corners of the To floor, rectangle that covers the bottom half of your slide and then send it to the back (order toolbar). It is that easy. Do the same for the ceiling.. Make a rectangle and send it to the back. 8. Using the Fill Color tool (paint bucket) fill the walls with color. Try using one color gradients. They usually work well 9. Fill the floor with a texture, like a rug texture or wood texture (fill tool>fill effects>textures). 10. If you complete one room, try making another. You can get pretty complex as seen in the next example (flip paper over) Keith Valley Technology Integration Program ~ Fasy, Heitzenrater, Telthorster ~

3 HANGING PAINTINGS IN YOUR MUSEUM STEP ONE: get the right tools for the job 1. From the Draw button, tear off the Flip or Rotate toolbar 2. From AutoShapes tear off the Basic Shapes toolbar STEP TWO: inserting paintings on to RECTANGULAR WALLS 1. Draw a rectangle, circle, oval or other shape and place it onto a rectangular shaped wall 2. Locate the "Fill tool" (paint bucket) on the drawing toolbar 3. Select "Fill Effects" and then choose the "Picture" tab 4. Locate the painting you wish to include in your museum and fill the shap with the painting 5. Repeat this step for paintings going onto rectangular walls STEP THREE: Placing paintings onto TRAPEZOID WALLS 1. Draw a and place it onto a -shaped wall 2. Rotate the so that it fits the wall 3. Using the handles and the yellow diamond, resize the so that it looks like it would fit onto the wall 4. Locate the Fill tool (paint bucket) on the drawing toolbar 5. Select Fill Effects and then choose the Picture tab 6. Locate the painting you wish to include in your museum and fill the with the painting (See diagrams below) 7. Make sure you UNCHECK the Rotate fill effect with shape box. See diagrams below. 8. Click OK and repeat steps for each Trapezoid wall Select Fill effects and fill your with a picture Click on the Select Picture button and choose a painting from your Virtual Museum folder 2004 Keith Valley Technology Integration Initiative ~ Fasy, Heitzenrater, Telthorster ~ Uncheck the Rotate fill effect box!! Click OK

4 Adding Navigation Links To make the pictures on your museum walls into clickable links: 1. Right-click on a picture. 2. From the pop-up menu select Action Settings. 3. In the Action Settings dialog box, select Hyperlink to and, at the bottom of the dialog click on Highligh Click. Then use the menu to tell PowerPoint you want to hyperlink to a Slide Select the slide to which you would like to link and click OK. 5. When you return to the Action Settings dialog, click OK to close it. Your link is complete.

5 To add a Navigation button to the Slide Master 1. Go to one of your detail slides. 2. Go to View>Toolbars and if it isn t already checked, select Drawing Toolbar. 3. From the Drawing Toolbar select Autoshapes>Action Buttons and choose the first action button (called Custom). Drag a small rectangular region to define your button. Make sure you position the button on your slide where there is no overlapping picture or text box. If you do not do this you could have navigational issues due to the picture or text box interferring with the hyperlink. 4. In the Actions Settings dialog click on the menu to HyperLink to the First Slide. 5. Type in a suitable name for the button (e.g., Go Back, or Musuem Room ). The text you type should become part of the button. 6. Select the button and go to the Edit menu to Cut it. 7. Go to the View menu and select Master>Slide Master. 8. Paste the button back on the slide. 9. Close the master slide and you ll discover that the button appears on each detail slide. If any detail slides have pictures or text boxes covering the button, rearrange them to remove the conflict. Quick Note: To avoid students from accidentally clicking on something other than your pictures, follow these instructions: 1. Click on Slide Show 2. Click on Slide Show Transitions 3. In the drop down box select no transition. 4. Then select advance slide, check the on Mouse Click box 5. Select Apply to All.