PowerPoint Development –
A minimum of 8 PowerPoint slides.
Nomore than 5 minutes for the entire presentation.
Slides should include but not limited to answering these questions:
- Introduction to the Company you researched. Explain what business they are in.
- Show how embracing technology has affected their ability to innovate and maintain a competitive advantage over their competitors.
- How they use technology to manage complex e-commerce and/or supply chain systems.
- How they use Business Intelligence (big data and analytics) to enhance their business.
- Embrace the cloud and mobility to innovate business processes.
- Using social media and networking as a CRM strategy.
- Meet the challenges of securing information.
- Based on your research, discuss their strengths as well as any areas for improvement.
Using Powerpoint:
Creating a slideshow
Start a new presentation and decide on a template to use. Once you’re happy with the looks of your first slide, you can add a new slide by clicking on New Slide in the Common Tasks menu or by going to Insert, NewSlide. You’ll need to choose the type of slide you want as you did with the first slide. Add the information you want to this slide and continue creating new slides until you’re done making your presentation.
Adding a Design or a Background
Once you’re done with the show (or at the beginning if you prefer), you can add a design to the slide show (or a background to slides) so that they’re not just white. To add a design from the database, click on Apply Design in the Common Tasks menu or go to Format, Apply Design. There are a number of designs to choose from. Simply select the one you want and it will be applied to all of your slides.
If you do not want a specific design, you can insert your own background by going to Format, Background and clicking on the arrow beside the white box in the window that appears. Select Fill Effects from the menu which appears. You can now play with the color schemes or textures, and you can even import a texture you’ve created or downloaded by clicking on Other Texture under
the Texture section of this window and then finding the image you want to use. You can apply your chosen background to the entire slide show or just to the slide you’re presently working on. If you choose a dark background (not a design), you may need to change the text color. Do that under Format, Slide Color Scheme.
Adding Transitions and slideshow animations
Once you’re happy with the colors, you may now wish to add transitions to the slide show. Go to View, Slide Sorter and your entire slide should appear in miniature form. Click on the button beside the No Transition box. A window should appear with either a picture of a dog or a key. Click the arrow beside the box labeled No Transition under the image and select one of the transition options. The image will shift to show the transition. You can adjust the speed of the transition. Once you’ve chosen your transition, click either Apply (to apply it only to the single slide) or Apply to All to set the entire Slide Show to the Transition.
You should animate at least one of the slides.
View Your Slide Show
Once you’ve created the slide show, you want to view it, so go to View, SlideShow. Whichever slide is selected is the one that will appear when you start the show, so make sure you’ve selected the first one. To move from slide to slide, all you have to do is click on the mouse. When you get to the last slide and click, the slide show will automatically end and you’ll go back to where you were
when you selected to view the show.
The above information is merely an overview of the basics of PowerPoint. The best way to learn is to play around with the program.
At Least 4 Digital Pictures/multimedia/video /
Use the digital pictures, video, or other multimedia to help tell your story. It will help bring life to your presentation.
ADDING IMAGES
If you would like to add clipart to this slide (or any slide), go to Insert,Picture, Clip Art. Choose the image you want, select it, and click Insert. The picture will appear on your slide in its default size.
If you have an image you’ve scanned in or which you’ve pulled off the net, you can also add it to your show by going to Insert, Picture, From File and finding your picture on your disk, selecting it and inserting it.
You can manipulate the size of the image by clicking on one of the boxes surrounding it and dragging the mouse (in or out) to the size you want. You can also move the picture by clicking on it and dragging it. The best way to learn to manipulate the images is just to play with them.
