PRACTICE EXERCISES. Geocaching Slide Show

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1 PRACTICE EXERCISES Geocaching Slide Show The slide show in Figure 4.52 is designed to be used with a presentation introducing a group to the sport of geocaching. Geocaching became a new sport on May 2, 2000, when 24 satellites around the globe stopped the intentional degradation of GPS signals. On May 3, Dave Ulmer hid a bucket of trinkets in the woods outside Portland, Oregon, and the sport was born! It continues to grow at remarkable speed. Your Geocaching presentation is designed to teach the basics of taking something, leaving something, and signing the logbook. This exercise follows the same set of skills as used in Hands-On Exercises 1 and 3 in the chapter. Refer to Figure 4.52 as you complete this exercise. FIGURE 4.52 Geocaching Slide Show > a. Open the p04pl cache slide show, and then save it as p04plcache_lastnamefirstname. b. Create a handout header with your name, and a handout footer with your instructor's name and c. Click the Design tab in any slide, click Background Styles in the Background group, and then select Format Background. d. Click Picture or texture fill, select File, locate and open the p04plcache_media folder, click p04plbkgd, and then click Insert. Drag the Transparency slider to 10%. Click Apply to All, and then click Close. e. On Slide 2, click the Insert Picture from File icon on the toolbar in the right placeholder. In \hep04plcache_media folder, click and examine the p04plgps picture. Click Insert, and then examine the image on Slide 2 and note the resizing of the placeholder to keep the image in proportion. f. Click Remove Background in the Adjust group, and then drag the top, left, and bottom marquee handles to the edge of the picture. Click Keep Changes. g. Click the border of the text box on the left side of the slide, click the Home tab, click Format Painter in the Clipboard group, and then click the gps picture. h. Open your browser, and then type garminuk.geocaching.com in the address bar to open the Geocaching with Garmin Web site. Right-click Geocaching with Garmin, and then select Save Background As. Save the image as p04plgarminlogo (used with permission) to your student data folder for this chapter. Close your browser. / \: The Sav using Firefox, click View Background Image, and then right-click and save the image. If you are using another browser, right-click the image and select the appropriate option from the menu.

2 i. On Slide 3, click the first Insert Picture from File icon (next to Register at a geocaching site) in the top SmartArt diagram box, click \hep04plgarminlogo image, and then click Insert. j. Click the second Insert Picture from File icon in the SmartArt diagram, locate p04plseek, and then click Insert. k. Repeat Step j to enter p04plcoordinates in the third image location, p04plgps in the fourth image location, and p04pl locate in the last image location. 1. On Slide 4, click the picture of the geocacher, and then click the Format tab. Click Color in the Adjust group, and then select No Recolor in the Recolor gallery. m. Click Corrections in the Adjust group, and then click Sharpen: 25% in the Sharpen and Soften gallery. n. On Slide 1, if you are able to record narration in your computer lab, click the Insert tab, click the Audio arrow in the Media group, and then select Record Audio. Click the red Record Sound button, and then read the Speaker Note at the bottom of Slide 1. When finished reading, click the blue Stop button, and then click OK. o. If you are not able to record narration in your computer lab, click Insert, click the Audio arrow in the Media group, and then select Audio from File. Clickp04plnarration, and then click Insert. p. Click the Audio Tools Playback tab, and then click the Hide During Show check box in the Audio Options Drag the audio icon to the top right of the slide. q. With the audio icon still selected, click the Start arrow in the Audio Options Select Automatically. r. Click the Animations tab, and then click Animation Pane in the Advanced Animation The audio object displays on the Animation Pane. Click the Re-Order up arrow until the sound object moves to the top of the list. s. Click the Start arrow, and then select With Previous. Close the Animation Pane. t. View the slide show. u. Save and close the file, and submit based on your instructor's directions. Geocaching Album FROM SCRATCH Geocachers are asked to share their geocaching experience in the geocache logbook. The Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site includes some easy steps for logging a Geocache find and even enables you to upload a photo with your log entry. Often, geocachers also put their geocaching stories, photos, and videos online in the form of slide shows using a variety of software packages. In this exercise, you create a geocache slide show quickly and easily using the PowerPoint Album feature, and then add video and text to the slide show. This exercise follows the same set of skills as used in Hands-On Exercises 2 and 4 in the chapter. Refer to Figure 4.53 as you complete this exercise. FIGURE 4.53 Geocaching Album > CHAPTER 4 Powerpoint Rich Media Tools

3 a. In a new blank presentation, click the Insert tab, and then click Photo Album in the Images b. Click File/Disk, open the p04p2geo_media folder, click one of the files, and then press Ctrl+A to select all pictures in the folder. Click Insert. c. Click p04p2img3 in the Pictures in album section, and then click Rotate Right. Repeat to rotate p04p2img5 and p04p2img8 to the right. d. Click the Picture layout arrow in the Album Layout section, and then select 2 pictures with title. e. Click the Frame shape arrow in the Album Layout section, and then select Center Shadow Rectangle. f. Click Create, and then save the album as p04p2geo_lastnamefirstname. g. Create a handout header with your name, and a handout footer with your instructor's name and h. On Slide 1 of the resulting album, change the title to Geocaching in Provo Canyon. Change the subtitle to your name. x TROUBLESHOOTING: If you get an error message that says "PowerPoint cannot insert a video from the selected file" while inserting p04p2vid1, it is because, currently, the Windows operating system does not have a 64-bit video or audio codec for the three QuickTime media formats: MPEG-4 video (*.mp4), MPEG-4 audio (*.m4a), or QuickTime Movie (*.mov). Substitute any of the videos provided in your data files or a video of your choice. Do the same whenever asked to insert a QuickTime video in this exercise. X i. Click the Design tab, click the More button in the Themes group, and then click the Module theme. j. Enter the following slide titles. Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Marking the jeep as a waypoint for safe return Using our GPS to find the cache Cache contained a waterproof container with coins and the log Trip completed k. On Slide 3, click the Home tab, click the New Slide arrow, and then select Title Only. Change the title of the slide to Hitching a ride on a windy day. 1. Click the Insert tab, click the Video arrow in the Media group, and then select Video from File. Click p04p2vidl from the p04p2geo_media folder, and then click Insert. m. Click the Video Tools Playback tab, and then click Trim Video. Type 00: in the Start Time box, and then click Play. Type 00: in the End Time box, and then click OK. n. Type in the Fade Out box in the Editing o. Click the Start arrow in the Video Options group, and then select Automatically. p. Click the Video Tools Format tab, and then move to the video frame at 4.75 seconds. Click Poster Frame, and then click Current Frame. q. Insert a new Title Only slide, change the title to Nothing stops Ava, and then insert p04p2vid2 from the p04p2geo_media folder. r. Click the Video Tools Playback tab, and then click Move Forward 0.25 Seconds on the Media Controls bar to advance the video to the frame at 14 seconds. Click Add Bookmark in the Bookmark s. Click the Video Tools Format tab, click Video Shape in the Video Styles group, and then click Heart in the Basic Shapes gallery, t. Click the Insert tab, click Clip Art in the Images group, type the keyword supplies, change Results to Audio, and then click Go. u. Point to the resulting audio clips to display the audio name, size, and file type. Locate the Pencil Scratch, 1.00 Seconds [6 KB] WAV clip, and then click the clip to insert it into the slide show. Close the Clip Art pane. v. Drag the audio icon to the bottom of the screen, w. Select one of the images in your album, click the Picture Tools Format tab, click Compress Pictures in the Adjust group, and then click the Apply only to this picture check box to deselect it. Click OK.

4 x. View the slide show. On Slide 5, point to the Media Controls bar, click the bookmark, and then click Play to begin the video at the bookmark site, y. Save and close the file, and submit based on your instructor's directions. Accident Record FROM SCRATCH You are involved in an accident on your bullet bike on the way to school one morning. You take pictures with your cell phone to keep a record of the damage to send to your insurance agent. You decide the quickest way to assemble the photographs is to create a Photo Album that is suitable for sending by . You then edit the Photo Album to include a text box so that you have a location in which to enter the accident details. This exercise follows the same set of skills as used in Hands-On Exercises 1 and 4 in the chapter. Refer to Figure 4.54 as you complete this exercise. FIGURE 4.54 Accident Record Compressed for > a. Open a blank presentation document, click the Insert tab, and then click Photo Album in the Images b. Click File/Disk, navigate to the p04p3accdnt_media folder, press Ctrl+A, and then click Insert. c. Click Create to create the album, and then save the album as p04p3accdnt_lastnamefirstname. d. Review the slides, and then note that each picture is placed on its own slide, that the photograph is dark in Slide 6, and that the photograph of the bullet bike is sideways in Slide 7. e. Click the Insert tab, click the Photo Album arrow, and then click Edit Photo Album. f. Use the Move up arrow to reposition p04p3accdnt6 so that it is the first picture in the Pictures in album list. g. Click the Rotate left button once to rotate p04p3accdnt6 so that the bullet bike is upright, h. With p04p3accdnt6 still selected, click New Text Box. i. Select p04p3accdnt5, click the Increase Contrast button five times, and then click the Increase Brightness button seven times. j. Click the Picture layout arrow in the Album Layout section, and then click 2 pictures. k. Click the Frame shape arrow in the Album Layout section, and then select Center Shadow Rectangle. 1. Click Update. m. Create a handout header with your name, and a handout footer with your instructor's name and n. Move to Slide 1, and then change the Photo Album title to Accident Record on one line and September 7, 2013 on the following line. Change the subtitle to your name, if necessary. o. Move to Slide 2, select the words Text Box, and then type the following information: September 7, :10 a.m. 210West&BridgerDr. CHAPTER 4 Powerpoint Rich Media Tools

5 p. Select the image on Slide 5, and then click the Format tab. Change the height to 6" in the Size The width automatically adjusts to 8". q. Click Align in the Arrange group, and then click Align Center. Click Align in the Arrange group again, and then click Align Middle. r. With the image still selected, click Compress Pictures in the Adjust group, and then deselect the Apply only to this picture check box so all pictures in the album will be compressed. s. Click in the Target output section, and then click OK. t. Save and close the file, and submit based on your instructor's directions. - ' - r