Multimedia - scenario

Create a multimedia presentation

Level of difficulty: Intermediate

As an educator, you may like to make your lessons more exciting. Using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can make visually exciting and colourful slide shows with animations, sound and video clips. Use your creativity to build presentations to your requirements. Presentations can be easily edited and enhanced for future needs.

If you have not used Microsoft PowerPoint before, consider completing this scenario first.

Click here to read a document on the educational benefits of multimedia presentations.

Create your own multimedia presentation - one which you will find useful. Alternatively, follow this example. To do so you would typically work through the following steps:

	Description	Resources
1	Start Microsoft PowerPoint	How to start Microsoft PowerPoint
2	Create a slide show: Create the basic slideshow with text and images. Choose a slide design. Apply animation to text and between slides	How to create a slide show Click here to see presentation design tips
3	Save the slide show: Remember to save your presentation at regular intervals	How to save a presentation
4	Draw diagrams on a slide: You may like to draw lines, shapes and diagrams, such as organisation charts	How to draw lines, shapes and diagrams
5	Insert a sound file or a movie clip: You can find sound files and movie clips in the Clip Art gallery or on the Internet	How to insert sound files and movie clips from the Clip Art Gallery
6	Insert action buttons: You can allow several paths through a slide show by providing interactive buttons.	How to insert an action button
7	Insert a hyperlink: You can use almost anything on the slide as a link to another part of the slide show, including text, drawn pictures and Clip Art	How to create a hyperlink
8	Save the presentation	How to save a presentation
9	Present the slide show to an audience	How to present the slide show