Summary+CT+302+June+15,+2007

Summary: 6-15-07


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BAD examples of PowerPoint: Examples in Projects under Unit 6, Media. Why bad? • Way too much content in each slide. You should be segmenting knowledge to make information easier to read and more clear. No more than 2-3 bullet points per slide. • Too many pictures per slide. You should focus each slide on specific information. • Bullets posted in sentences. • Inappropriate sound effects. • Picture as a background. Never use a picture as a background because it is distracting when trying to read text. • Inappropriate animation. • Inappropriate sound clip. This can be useful, however if used wrong can cause confusion. • Information being brought up is not consistent. Try to keep the amount of information in each bullet around the same length. • Graph is not properly labeled. • Confusing text. Text should be consistent and easy to follow; this includes style, font and size. • Ambiguous information. • Pictures are irrelevant to slide information.

GOOD PowerPoint: “Education Potential of Modified Video Games” by Andrew Moshirnia. • Includes a “road map” for presentation. • Audio, video and text in slides. • Audio files and PowerPoint file should exist in the same folder.

Basic Information on Using PowerPoint: • To create more slides: “ctrl m” • On left, slide map. • On center, slide content. • On right, slide palette, used to modify slide content. • On top, menus to modify slide content. • Slide Layout menu helps you organize content within a slide. • Slide Design templates allow pre-designed color and text. • Action buttons used for hyperlinks, audio, or running programs. • Include feedback for a viewer • Click slide show, custom animation to refer to all actions in a slide. • Make transitions subtle.

iMovie: • Left: movie viewing area • Right: palette, clips being dealt with • Click play to view imported movie. • Main tools for editing: lower bars located below screen (triangles) • To edit: make yellow space on bar by moving triangles • Action is done to yellow space, for example, using Edit, cut • Edit: split video clip at playhead to split video into two parts and is added to palette • To reorder movie, drag clips to the timeline located at the bottom of the screen • Click editing to add transitions, titles, video and audio • Create your own movie and export movie, compressing it for web streaming.