[nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

[Ashley Bramlett]

Gloria,

This question comes up a lot. I have played with powerpoint plus got 
training on it.
One very helpful resource is the Hadley school for the blind webinars. If 
interested go to www.hadley.edu.
Then click on seminars, then past seminars. Under the technology heading you 
will see two presentations for powerpoint.
Click on part one, then listen to part 2 for more instructions on presenting 
and fancy effects.

Do you have to add in transitions and animations to your slides? If not, its 
quite easy.
To create the powerpoint, assumeing you have office 2010, do this.
When it opens, you have a title  slide. Press tab to go between the areas 
you type called place holders.
Type the title. Press escape to go to object level then tab to the next 
place holder. I think you press enter to go to the edit level. Listen for 
jaws or your screen reader to say edit. When it says that, type your 
subtitle.

I think the ribbon bar is a pain. It takes a while to move to various tabs, 
unlike the menu system we used to have. Anyway, if you do not need 
transitions or animations, no ribbon bar needed. Use standard office 
keyboard commands to move around your text; for instance, control c for 
copy, control v for paste, and of course control s for save.

Insert a slide with command control M. By default you will have a title 
place holder and a body place holder. I recommend no more than five bullet 
points per slide. Also, do not clutter it with text. Its meant as an 
outline; use simple key phrases. You will add to what each bullet point says 
in your talk.

Press control S to save. If you desire to change font, press control D for 
font dialogue box and press tab to go through it all.

For presenting, I second what others said. Make braille notes for yourself 
and label by slide; meaning write slide 1 and then outline what you'll say, 
not just what is on the slide show; then write slide 2 and write notes.

Have someone turn your slides as you go through. Some blind people use a 
laptop and jaws to hear their slides, but that seems like a lot of trouble. 
If you use the pc in the classroom, just have them turn the slides and you 
will be fine. Yes, many times pressing space in slide show mode works, but 
if you have animations, it won't always work like that.

Good luck.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gloria G
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:37 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

Hi all,
I hope someone can give me some pointers. At the end of this semester I am 
having to do a power point presentation in one of my classes. I have never 
put together a powerpoint by myself. I have been involved in group projects 
in which powerpoints were used, but I only submitted my information and 
another sighted student incerted my slides. Has anyone had to do this and 
how have you handled it? I am also concern when the presentation comes how 
to go through the powerpoint during the presentation. Any help is welcomed.
Thanks
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