Lesson 17

Part II (Introduction to Presentation, continued)

In this part, we will explore Presentation’s mini paint palette to modify our Simple2 presentation.

1. Deleting Extra Pages

When you open the Presentation application again, notice that Simple2 now has 6 pages. This is because 3 pages were added when you got screen captures for the Part I exercises.

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2. Copying and Moving a Page with the Mini Paint Palette

As you will see, the mini paint palette is very limited and can be time consuming. But, it does provide us with ways to edit and improve our screen captures so that we can create interesting slide shows.

3. Clearing Part of a Page with the Mini Paint Palette

We can clear the lower half of a page if we want to. This would be useful if you wanted to add a long explanation or a lot of text to a page.

4. How to Undo a Mistake

It is easy to make a mistake, especially when you are trying to put text or draw something in just the right spot.

5. Adding Lines and Arrows, and using Erase with the Mini Paint Palette

- draws a line segment (once drawn, we cannot move it)

- draws an arrow (once drawn, we cannot move it)

- erases whatever we drag across (click and drag each time you want to erase something?

Part II


Practice Exercises

  1. Let’s create a mini slide show using some of the things we have learned in this course.
  2. Open the Presentation application. It should be cleared!
  3. Begin a new presentation by entering the name Temp following P1 and press EXE.
  4. Open the eActivity application and insert a Geometry window.
  5. Turn on the axis with numbers and the integer grid.
  6. Draw a triangle.
  7. Add one screen capture to your presentation.
  8. Select your triangle and drag it to the eActivity window.
  9. Change the eActivity line to a math line.
  10. Multiply the matrix by ½ and press EXE.
  11. Drag the resulting matrix back to the Geometry window.
  12. Add one screen capture to your presentation.
  13. Open the Presentation application.
  14. Add a page to your Temp presentation by copying and pasting Page 1. You should now have three pages.
  15. Add your name to the first page of the Temp presentation.
  16. Play your Presentation one page at a time. With Page 1/3 showing in the status bar, get a screen capture. Paste it into your Lesson17 document (under a title of PART II).
  17. With Page 2/3 showing in the status bar, get a screen capture. Add two blank spaces following the first screen capture and then paste this one.
  18. With Page 3/3 showing in the status bar, get a screen capture. Add two blank spaces following the last screen capture and then paste this one.