My Favorite Things Directions
My Favorite Things Directions
Open PowerPoint
1. Title Slide Go to Format – Slide Layout and choose Title Slide
2. Favorite Foods Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title and Text from Slide Layout menu on side
3. Favorite Music Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title, Text, and Clip Art from Slide Layout menu on side
4. Favorite Movies Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title, Text, and Clip Art from Slide Layout menu on side
5. Favorite Colors Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title Only from Slide Layout menu on side
6. Favorite Hobbies Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title and Two Column Text from Slide Layout menu on side
7. Favorite Your Choice Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title and Text from Slide Layout menu on side
8. Period X Hair Color Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title, Text, and Chart from Slide Layout menu on side
9. Period X Eye Color Go to Insert New Slide – Select Title, Text, and Chart from Slide Layout menu on side
10. End Slide Go to Insert New Slide – Select Blank from Slide Layout menu on side
11. Text Fill in all slides except 5,8, and 9 with a minimum of 3 things per slide with a maximum of 6. For example for Favorite Foods you must have a minimum of 3, but no more than 6. Slide 10 is the end slide so it only needs to say something to let the audience know the show is over.
12. Formatting Text At least 5 slides must have custom text (something other than Times New Roman, colors other than black)
13. Word Art At least 3 slides must have WordArt on them (I would suggest – The End, and two other slides of your choice). Make sure you customize the look of your WordArt with colors, texture, gradient, pattern, linetypes, etc from the Word Art Toolbar. To use Word Art Toolbar go to View – Toolbars – Word Art
14. Custom Bullets At least 5 slides must have custom bullets. To do this you highlight where you want to put the bullet and then go to Format, Bullet, change the font to Webdings. You can also change the color and the size of the bullet.
15. Backgrounds There are 5 different types of custom backgrounds in PowerPoint (Solid Color, Gradient, Texture, Pattern, and Picture). You are going to need 2 of each in your presentation.
a. For Solid Color Go to Format – Background – Choose a Solid Color from the drop-down menu and click Apply NOT Apply to All
b. For Gradient Go To Format – Background – Choose Fill Effects from drop-down menu and choose 1 color or 2 and a shading style, click OK, then click Apply
c. For Texture Go To Format – Background – Choose Fill Effects from drop-down menu and click on Texture. Choose a texture and click OK, then click Apply
d. For Pattern Go To Format – Background – Choose Fill Effects from drop-down menu and click on Pattern. Choose a foreground and background color and a pattern and click OK, then click Apply
e. For Picture First make sure you have saved the picture you want to use to your Flash Drive. Then go To Format – Background – Choose Fill Effects from drop-down menu and click on Picture. Click Select Picture – locate the picture – Click Insert – Click Ok – Click Apply.
16. Clip Art At least 2 pieces of Clip Art throughout the presentation. To do this go to Insert – Picture – Clip Art and search for clip art that works for your presentation.
17. Inserting Pics First make sure you have saved the picture you want to use to your Flash Drive. Then go to Insert – Picture – From File and locate the picture you want to insert. Click Insert. You can resize the pic by using the various grips. You can also customize (crop, rotate, remove background, etc.) the pic using the Picture toolbar. To access Picture Toolbar go to View – Toolbars – Picture. Insert 5 pictures throughout your presentation.
18. Autoshapes On the bottom of your screen you should have the Drawing Toolbar. If it is not there go to View – Toolbars – Drawing and it will show up.
a. Go to Slide 1.
b. Click on Autoshapes on the Drawing Toolbar.
c. Choose Callouts and the Cloud Callout (upper right corner)
d. Go to where you want to put the Cloud, hold left mouse button and drag
e. You can resize it by dragging the grips
f. You can change background color by right clicking on it and going to Format Autoshape
g. You can type inside of it by making sure it is selected (it has box around it) and just type what you want to go inside
Besides the Cloud Autoshape on Slide 1 you need a total of 3 Autoshapes throughout your presentation.
19. Text Boxes Again you will need the Drawing Toolbar
a. Go to Slide 5
b. Click on the Text Box button
c. Hold down the left mouse button and drag out a text box
d. Write a favorite color in each text box
e. Repeat until you have at least 4 text boxes on the screen
f. Format the fonts of each text box
g. Right click on outer line of text box and go to Format Text Box
h. Change Background color to match your favorite color (you may use textures, gradients, or patterns)
i. Also add a custom line type to go around the outside of the text box. When you right click on the text box and go to Format Text Box go to the Colors and Lines tab and then go to the drop-down box under Lines and choose a line color (or patterned line), then choose a style and a weight.
20. Bar Graph Slide 8 will be a bar graph showing the hair color of our class
a. Go to Slide 8
b. Take a poll of the number of Blondes, Browns, Blacks, and Reds in the class
c. Write these numbers in the text box next to the chart area
d. Then double click on the chart area and the Datasheet pops up
e. Click on the Gray box in the upper left corner…it should select the entire Datasheet
f. Hit the Delete key (do not hit backspace). You should now have a blank Datasheet
g. In the first column next to #1 write Blondes
h. In the first column next to #2 write Browns
i. In the first column next to #3 write Blacks
j. In the first column next to #4 write Reds
k. In the column next to the Hair Colors write the number of students who have that color hair. See example below..
l. Once your Datasheet is complete you can close out of it and you will see your graph.
m. With your graph selected (it has little square boxes in the corners and black diagonal lines surrounding it) go to the Menu bar at the top of the screen and go to Data – Series in Columns and your graph will spread out.
n. Delete the legend
o. Make your graph wide enough so you can see all of the text
p. If you need to change the size of the text on your graph hover your mouse over the text until it says Category Axis and Right Click the Mouse. Go to Format Axis and click on the Font tab. Change the size or font or color here.
q. To change the bar colors…With your graph selected click on the blonde bar and it should select all of the bars. Click on the blondes bar again and now only that bar should be selected. Right click on that bar and go to Format Data Point. Choose a shade of yellow to correspond with Blonde. Repeat for each color
r. Finished graph should look something like this…
21. Pie Chart Slide 9 will be a Pie Chart showing the eye color of our class
a. Go to Slide 9
b. Take a poll of the number of Blues, Browns, Greens, and Hazels in the class
c. Write these numbers in the text box next to the chart area
d. Then double click on the chart area and the Datasheet pops up
e. Click on the Gray box in the upper left corner…it should select the entire Datasheet
f. Hit the Delete key (do not hit backspace). You should now have a blank Datasheet
g. In the first column next to #1 write Blues
h. In the first column next to #2 write Browns
i. In the first column next to #3 write Greens
j. In the first column next to #4 write Hazels
k. In the column next to the Eye Colors write the number of students who have that color eyes. See example below..
l. Once your Datasheet is complete you can close out of it and you will see your graph. At this point it will be a Bar Graph.
m. On the Menu Bar at the top of the screen Go to Chart – Chart Type – Pie. Choose any Pie Chart except the two on the far right.
n. Your Pie Chart may only show 1 piece of pie so with your graph selected (it has little square boxes in the corners and black diagonal lines surrounding it) go to the Menu bar at the top of the screen and go to Data – Series in Columns and your chart should show all the pieces.
o. Delete the legend
p. Make your chart wide enough so you can easily see it.
q. To change the Pie colors…With your graph selected click on the blue section and it should select all of the sections. Click on the blue section again and now only that section should be selected. Right click on that bar and go to Format Data Point. Choose a shade of blue. Repeat for each color
r. Click on one of the Pie Sections and start typing. You should notice a text box appear. Make labels for each section. Right click on the outside of each of the text boxes and go to Format Text Box. Change the Font color to White.
s. Finished graph should look something like this…
22. Animations and Sound Effects
a. Use the following 2 websites for music sounds and sound effects
i. Powerpoint Songs -
ii. Free Sound Effects -
b. Save 1 song and 3 sound effects to your flash drive
i. Find song / sound you want. Right click on it. Go to Save Target As and save it to your Flash Drive.
c. Slide 1
i. Go to Insert – Movies and Sounds – Sound From File
ii. The computer will ask if you want the sound to play automatically and click Automatically.
iii. Now go to Slideshow – Custom Animation and the Animation bar should be on the right hand side of your screen
iv. Click the drop-down arrow next to the song and Select Start With Previous
v. Click the drop-down arrow next to the song again and Select Effect Options
vi. Now change when the song stops to After Current Slide or After 1 Slide (if you want the music to play longer you can choose After 2,3,…10 slides, etc).
vii. Now click on the title give it an Entrance Animation
viii. Repeat for text boxes, pics, autoshapes, etc. until everything you want animated is in the Animation box on the right hand side of the screen.
ix. For the first animation that is located under the song, change its start time to With Previous – then go to the drop down arrow next to that item and go to Timing and give it a delay so it doesn’t start right away when the music starts. (Maybe 1-3 seconds). (If you choose After Previous for this first animation it will wait until the song is over to play your animation)
x. For everything you want animated after this point, choose after previous, as these are all short events and you want them to be animated one after another. If you want 2 things to come up together you can choose With Previous.
xi. You may want to go to Timing for each of these as well and give them a Delay too.
xii. If you want this slide to advance automatically, you can go to Slideshow – Slide Transition and select Automatically under Advance Slide and give it a reasonable amount of time to perform everything on the slide. Also Transitions section below.
d. Repeat these steps for Sound Effects on slides 2, 4, and 10. Everything is done the same way. The only difference is the sound plays for a much shorter period of time than a song. For example on Favorite Foods slide you may have a “Crunch” sound after one of your favorite foods pops up.
e. PowerPoint Sounds on Slide 5 – For Slide 5 you should have a PowerPoint Sound for each text box. You need go to Slideshow – Custom Animation and animate each text box. Then select the drop-down arrow of the text box you want to add the sound to in the Animation bar on the right side of the screen – go to Effect Options – and add a sound. Sample of PowerPoint sounds are Whoosh, Laser, Typewriter, Drumroll, etc. Each text box needs its own PowerPoint sound.
23. Transitions
a. Go to Slide Sorter view (look in lower left corner of screen for the 4 little boxes).
b. Go to Slide Show – Slide Transition
c. All of your Transition options should be on the right hand side of your screen.
d. Choose a Transition for each slide
e. Make Slides 1,5, and 10 Automatic…all the rest are on Mouse Click
i. Make sure the times are long enough
f. Add Transition Sounds to Slides 3 and 6
Favorite Things Grading Rubric
10 Slides
3 Word Arts – 2 Points
At Least 5 Slides w/ Custom Bullets – 2 Points
At Least 5 Slides w/ Different Text Styles – 2 Points
Different Colored Text
Custom Backgrounds – 3 Points
2 Solid Color
2 Gradient
2 Texture
2 Pattern
2 Picture
2 Clip Arts – 2 Points
5 Pictures – 2 Points
3 Autoshapes – 2 Points
4 Text Boxes (slide 5) – 2 Points
2 Graphs – 5 Points
10 Transitions/ Transition Sounds on slides 3 & 6 – 2 Points
10 Effects – 2 Points
4 Sound Effects – 2 Points
Internet Sounds on slides 2, 4, 10
PowerPoint sounds on slide 5 (1 sound for each color)
1 Music Sound – 2 Points
Slide 1
Automatic Slides
1, 5, 10
30 Points
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