PowerPoint+Narration


 * 1) Open PowerPoint
 * 2) On the title slide, type "Vacation Plans"
 * 3) Add three new slides "(go to the bar on the left where it shows the slides you've made. Put your cursor in the blue space beneath the title slide and click "CTRL m" to add new slides)
 * 4) Each of the three slides you just created will have one picture. To add the pictures, go the the first new slide. Click on "Insert" then choose "clip art". In the search box that appears (check the right side of your screen), type the name of an activity you will do on vacation.
 * 5) Repeat step for the next two slides, using a different activity each time.
 * 6) Go back to title slide. We will now TALK about our vacation plans by narrating this ppt.
 * 7) Click on "Slide Show" at the top of the screen.
 * 8) Look at the options that appeared underneath "Slide Show". Click on "Record Narration".
 * 9) Plug in the microphone and look at the new window that opened. The settings should be fine for today's work so click OK (top right of the new box that opened). In the future, you may want to adjust the quality settings, depending on the purpose of and audience for the presentation.
 * 10) In the new box that appeared, choose to start recording on the first slide. Be ready! The PowerPoint will shift to "presentation view", as if you were really presenting somewhere and the recording will start immediately, without any option for you to start or stop.
 * 11) Give it about 5 seconds before you start talking and don't click anything for about five seconds when you've finished talking. Otherwise, you risk losing the beginning and/or end of what you were saying.
 * 12) Record what you want to say on the title slide (as if you were presenting your vacation plans to an audience..."Today, I'm going to talk about what I plan to do on vacation.") When you're done with what you want to say, wait about five seconds and click one time anywhere on the screen
 * 13) Your next slide will appear. Wait three-five seconds and tell us about the first activity you plan to do . With whom will you do it? Do you like the activity? Why or why not? Etc. When you've finished what you want to say, wait three to five seconds and then click to continue to your next slide.
 * 14) Repeat step 12 until you finish your presentation. On the last slide, wait three-five seconds before clicking, as always. When you click, the screen will go black because the show is over and a message will appear in white: "End of slide show, click to exit." Click.
 * 15) Now a new message will appear in a box: "The narrations have been saved with each slide. Do you want to save the timings as well?" Choose "save".
 * 16) It will return to your PowerPoint, but instead of the editing screen you're used to, it will show a blue screen with mini images of all of your slides. If you want to return to the editing screen you're used to, click on "View" (one of the options at the very top of your computer screen" and then choose "Normal" on the far left.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Saving correctly is VERY important, otherwise you won't have the narration if you play the PowerPoint on a different computer. To save correctly, be sure you're finished editing and then choose "Save As" (click on the Microsoft icon in the upper left corner of your screen) and select "PowerPoint Show". Find your flash drive and name your presentation and select "Save".
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Upload your presentation to your personal wiki and try playing it on a different computer than the one you used to create it. This is the only way to be sure the sound worked.