How to make a presentation in PowerPoint: the main stages

The development of computer technology has inevitably affected each of us to a greater or lesser extent. It's hard to imagine that even some fifteen years ago we just got acquainted with a mobile phone. And now it is almost every first-grader. The same goes for computers.

According to the adopted standards, a computer and an interactive whiteboard must be present in every class today. It is very important the teacher's ability to use computer programs. But, for example, not everyone knows how to make a presentation for the lesson. But the success of the educational process depends to a certain extent on this ability.

Older people may be suspicious of this fact, because they learned without such modern means. But our children are surrounded by a huge amount of information coming to them from outside. And modern schools should adapt to such a course of things, not to yield to technical progress, to bring to the students the necessary knowledge and make them as accessible to the child's perception as possible.

Many teachers, having met with the need to use a computer in classroom lessons, faced such a problem: they do not know how to make a presentation. As a teacher, I know from experience how well the children learn the information, if it is communicated to them through the monitor screen. So I decided to tell you about the main stages of working in Microsoft Power Point and how to make a presentation on the computer.

Beginning of work

On the desktop, we press the start menu - all programs - Microsoft Office - Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. In this application we will use two main tabs: the main and design. Since making a good presentation with the presence of video and transitions is a difficult task for a beginner, we will create for the beginning the simplest sample.

We will start with the presentation. Before us now is an empty white slide with the header and subtitle frames. We need to decorate it beautifully. For this we click on the "Design" tab. There are small icons, these are the themes of different colors with the letters A. Put on the down arrow, we see several options how to make the presentation can be more vivid and attractive. If, however, none of these topics fit you, there is a line "Other topics" below. When you follow the link, you will be able to select and download to the computer the theme that you need. It will be displayed on each slide that you create.

Change the color of slides

The "Background Styles" tab will help us to find the variations of the presentation design in the selected theme. This is necessary, for example, to set a lighter or contrast palette on the slide. So, using the "Color" tab, you select the appropriate option. Note that at this time, not only the color of the slide, but also its font can change. It is not necessary to choose one color, setting it as the default for the whole presentation. You can use the cursor on the sample to see how the topic will look in the case. Here, on the "Font" tab, you can choose the easy-to-read style of writing text.

Create a new slide

In the main menu, we click the "Create Slide" tab and select the required layout. For example, this is a "Object with a signature" layout. In the title, we'll write a slide theme (title), add the text to the next window. Keep in mind that these fields can be swapped, stretched and reduced in size.

Now add a picture or photo. In the large window among the different icons there is a picture "Insert a picture from a file". Clicking on it, you get to the menu of your computer, from which you can select the appropriate picture. There is another option for adding a picture. If you liked the picture on the Internet, you just copy it to the presentation. First click on the picture with the right mouse button, select "Copy", and then paste it into the presentation. If the image is too large, then using the squares that appeared around the picture, you can edit the element, reducing it to the desired format.

End of work

Thus, by creating the required number of slides, you save the presentation on the computer. To do this, in the upper left corner, click the round Office button and select "Save As." After that, you can safely leave your work without fear of losing the created presentation. To view the finished work in full screen mode, use the icon "wineglass" at the bottom, and to exit this mode - the Esc key on the keyboard.

Here are all the main steps in the work of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, the newcomer needed. I hope that now the question of how to make a presentation on the computer will no longer be a problem for you.