Practice Exercises

Develop a storyboard that is both educational and persuasive, presenting the steps to making the best possible sandwich (in your opinion). Create a plan for this presentation. Divide the presentation into seven sections. Make sure that your storyboard includes information on each of these topics and why it is a needed section of the plan for making the best sandwich.

After developing your presentation, you decide to add pictures to slides #4 and #7, along with a simple animation to slide #12. You do not want to make any changes to other slides in the presentation. Explain the best way to make these changes without affecting the overall presentation.

Your presentation is ready to go, but at the last minute, your supervisor asks you to create two additional slides to provide updated information in the middle of the presentation. To accommodate this update, you also need to move slide #11 and make it the fifth slide in the presentation. How will you make these changes?

Use the elements about alignment to arrange six different objects into a slide. Choose images and text. Choose a group of items such as cars, animals, or national parks. Start by sketching the design on a piece of paper, then building the design into PowerPoint.

Choose a topic of interest such as your favorite vacation or your top three academic goals this year. Select the appropriate layouts for a new presentation and create a short presentation about the chosen topic. After the title slide, you need a slide that provides an overview of your presentation, followed by three slides that you will use to present pictures with captions. Your presentation should be approximately five slides long.

Tables are frequently used in professional presentations. Using what you’ve learned, insert a 5 x 5 table into a presentation.

Using WordArt, demonstrate ways to emphasize an important point. You can either create a new presentation or add it to your My Life in a Snapshot presentation.

Your team includes several people who have never worked with a digital presentation. To make your project easier for them to complete, you need to convert a PowerPoint presentation to Slides. Create a memo with a simple set of instructions to achieve this.

Open a new Slides file. Add a text box and include a list of items such as a shopping list or a packing list for a trip. Using the skills you learned in this section, add a border to a text box. Format the rest of the slide in a professional manner adding a background and color.

Create a new Slides file. Choose a theme such as landscape images or animals. Insert several images (at least five) onto the slide. Use the tools in the Arrange menu to format the slide in an organized manner. You might need to adjust the size of the images to make them all fit on the slide. Change the layout of the slide to include a title.

Practice what you’ve learned by adding a diagram to your presentation. Select the appropriate type of diagram, choose a color theme and style, and add content.

Practice what you’ve learned by adding a video to your presentation. Follow the appropriate steps to insert a video from a platform such as YouTube or from your own collection of videos.