The Spring 2010 powerpoint discussion centers on a powerpoint presentation of your instructor's visit as part of the Cherry Hill Israel dancers as they visited and performed at Lionsgate.

Lionsgate is a retirement community in Berlin, NJ. The group has been there before and I have used previous trips of the Cherry Hill group for end of term exercises.

Powerpoint starts as presentation graphics and morphs into slide shows. And the terminology is consistent with slides. Instead of a form, a document or a sheet, we deal with slides. For a student in my class, consider this as Word without text.

Powerpoint also breaks down into what do yuo do with individual slides, dealing with the slides en masse and finally automating components. As far as the individual sheets, your training in Word will be of great help. Everything is in essence an insert onto a form. Powerpoint provides the user with templates which will work for low level slides. But your instructor tends to work toward high level slides and uses insert picture, insert clip art, etc generally. One of the nice features of powerpoint is shapes but we will not bwe able to deal with these during our discussions

As to the use of the slides together, the tab slide show is a start. Thisgives the capability to run the slides that you have created. Slides can progress by the user clicking the mouse or by timing. Your instructor's tendency is to deal with timing and since he syncs these presentations to music, much of the time of preparation is getting the individual slide durations correct.

You will notice in this presentation that the first 3 slides have an animated cloud. This is called animation and you have great control in terms of entrances and exits of objects. We will show you how do deal with these in class.

Another factor is music. Music can be put into powerpoint in two ways. One is as an attached file and this is generally a jpg file in the directory that your powerpoint presentation resides. Your instructor, however, prefers embedded files - these are wav files - that become part of the presentation. If we have a chance we will show you how this is done but on your own you can see an example of this on the fybbi web site.