Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 1 of 8 Creating a digital story telling slide show Dr. Marshall G. Jones, Winthrop University [email protected] Getting Started 1) Decide on a topic. 2) Take the pictures. You will want to have a shot list or story boards to tell you exactly what to take. You can also download pictures from the Internet to use. Creating a Presentation and Creating New Slides 3) Open PowerPoint. The screen should look like it does on the right. Type the name of your story in the upper box and each group member’s name at the bottom. This slide is called a “Title slide.” While there are many types of slides to use, we will use only a “Title Slide” and a “Title Only” slide for this project. 4) In the upper right hand corner of the screen you will see a button called “New Slide.” Click on it one time with the left mouse button.Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 2 of 8 5) A new slide will be created. It will default to a bulleted list. You will want to change it to “Title Only.” Do this by clicking on the top right Text Layout. See the example on the right. 6) Add a title for this picture. This title will be a short description of what is happening in the story. Don’t tell your story here. Only provide a caption for the picture. Inserting Pictures 7) Insert a picture. First make sure your floppy disk with pictures on it is in the computer. When it is, click on the Insert Menu, drag down to Picture, drag over and down to From File…Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 3 of 8 8) You will need to navigate to your floppy disk. At the very top of the active window, it says Look in: Click on the triangle that points down on the right side. This will show you all the places that you might have a picture stored. You will want to drag down to select 3 ½ Floppy (A:). Your pictures will show up. 9) Select a picture by clicking on it. It will highlight with a blue box around it. 10) Click on the insert menu and it will show up in PowerPoint. Ta Da.Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 4 of 8 Saving your Presentation 11) Save your presentation. When you save the first time you will need to give your presentation a name and a location. This is very important. When you click on Save, notice that it takes your title as the name of the file. This is good. You need to create a new folder to save this in as well. Do this by clicking on the icon that has a small star burst beside it. 12) It will ask you to name the folder. Name it with all of your last names (jones smith zimbrowski). Click OK. 13) Notice that the Save In: box now has your folder name in it. The File Name: box has your file name it. You will want to click on Save. From now on when you save this file you will never have to give it a name or a location again. It will remember where it is saved. 14) Repeat steps 4-10 until you have added all of your pictures. Make sure that you save every time you insert a picture. Make sure everyone in your group inserts at least 2 pictures.Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 5 of 8 Setting the Background 15) Next to the New Slide button is a button that says Design. Click on it and you will see on the right side of the screen all of your choices for slide backgrounds. Find one you like and click on it. While it is possible to change the background for every slide, it will look better if you use a constant background. Setting Transitions and Timings on the slide show 16) You set transitions and timings in the same place. From the Slide Show menu drag down to Slide Transition. This will open up your transition options on the right side of the screen. 17) You must set the transition for each slide. It is possible to select one transition and apply it to the entire presentation. For the sake of consistency and time, I recommend it. Choose a transition at the top of the options on the right.Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 6 of 8 18) Choose a speed for the transition and sound to go with the transition if you like. Because we will put music in later, I would avoid sound here. 19) Now set up the slide to show for a particular amount of time before it goes to the next slide. I have set mine for 2 seconds. Notice it would also advance when I clicked my mouse. Do this for every screen. 20) To see your slide show, go back to the Slide Show menu and drag down to View Show. Adding Sound 21) Find a sound. I have some for you. Use the link on the right for one of the best collections of instrumental music on the Internet. All free for use to schools and non-profits. http://freeplaymusic.com 22) Put your sound in the same folder as your presentation. This is essential. You can do this by copying the sound from one location and pasting it into your folder. You can do this by downloading the file to your folder. 23) On your title screen,Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 7 of 8 24) Navigate to your folder and choose your sound file. 25) You will be asked if you want it to play when clicked or automatically. Choose Automatically. 26) Right now the sound will play until it is done, and the slide will not advance until the music finishes playing. You will need to change this under the Slide Show menu. Choose Custom Animations. 27) Drag down to select Effect Options…Digital Story Telling | Dr. Marshall G. Jones | Page 8 of 8 28) You need to tell the computer when it can stop playing the music. It can stop playing the music after it is done showing all your slides. If you have 10 slides tell it can Stop Playing after 10 slides. If you have 15 slides, tell it 15 slides. Keep in mind that the music I downloaded for you to use is 30 seconds long. You may want to loop your song (an option when you place your music) or figure up your slides to play for only 30 seconds. If your presentation is longer than your sound that is OK today, but you can download something more appropriate for later. 29) Save it. Preview it by running your slide show. Telling Your Story In Print 30) Underneath the picture it says “Click to add notes.” Usually these are speaker notes, but if we tell the story in this box we will be able to …