Which is the better and most efficient program, Keynote or Power Point?
Keynote, part of the iWork ’08 program for Macs, has everything students and teachers need to create and author well-designed and professional-looking presentations. For the student, as well as the teacher, music, photos, and movies can be inserted by dragging them from the Media Browser. Additional adjustments can be made directly on the slide. Keynote provides a collection of professionally designed themes, that each has their own selection of coordinated text, tables, and charts. One can easily pick a theme and the presentation opens with a title and is ready to go. The feature saves valuable class time. Below is a list of just some of the valuable features of this program. Take a look and explore this program using some of our how to use Keynotes notes and tutorials.
Benefits of Keynote over PowerPoint:
• Drop-down menus
• Transitions more unique transitions as well as choices
• Easy conversions (PP to Key) but will not go the reverse direction as well
• Hyperlinks – files, web pages, movies, slides, e-mail, etc
• Easier to move text and shapes
• Color choices
• Dials and sliders – feedback on changes
• Animation – inspector
How to use keynote:
• Open the program by clicking the icon at the bottom of the screen
• Choose a theme
• Click the master slide that meets your needs from the drop down menu
• Double click in text box or cursor
• Input information
• To get additional text boxes click text box icon
• To change font and size highlight text and then click font icon and choose
• To change font colors highlight text then click on color icon and choose from menu
• Click the plus button for a new slide
• Continue until presentation is complete
• Click view in top tool bar and scroll down to rehearse slide
• Then click view again and hit play slideshow
Extra features:
• Shapes
o To place a shape within a slide click shapes icon
o In drop down menu choose desired shape
o Clicking the shape on the slide and moving the small white boxes can adjust size of shape
• Tables
o For a table click on table icon and a nine square chart will show up
o Click desired box to add text
o Click and drag table to position it within the slide
o To adjust table size use table menu
• Charts and graphs
o Click chart icon and choose desire axis format from drop down menu
o Then a chart data editor appears to input axis values
o To edit chart go to chart menu. Here you are allowed to change data; colors; legends; 3-D image; axis and series
• Pictures, movies, sounds
o Click media icon
o Choose desired media from stored files
o Click and drag media to slide
• Inspector
o Click inspector to add transitions for slide; picture; and text
o Text; graphics; metrics; table; chart; hyperlinks; and quick time adjustments click on desired picture or text to adjust
o To add a hyperlink highlight object on slide and then click as enable hyperlink and choose desired link choice
Uses of Keynote for camp:
• Display models- Students can easily create models and then display them using Keynote. Music, photos, and movies can be inserted by dragging them from the Media Browser. Additional adjustments can be made directly on the slide. Keynote provides a collection of professionally designed themes, that each has their own selection of coordinated text, tables, and charts.
• Show procedures- Individuals can document their experimental procedures via digital technology by using Keynote’s pictures, movies, and sounds media center.
• Organize data-Students during summer camp can organize the data collected using keynote’s table and charts to enter their data into. Once data has been entered presentations can be created easily and made to look professional. In turn this data can be shared with fellow classmates and educators.
• Creative ways to present results- Just go hog wild. Students need to be allowed to play around with keynote to get a feel for what the program can do. There are just so many choices and variations. Students should be able to come up with a professional looking presentation that expresses their thought and ideas, as well as communicating them to others in a unique way.
• Assessment-Keynote can also be used as an assessment tool. At the beginning of a project, experiment or lesson students could be asked to prepare a presentation of their understanding. As the learning progresses the educator could ask for updated presentations form the students. Since keynote has the easy sharing capabilities this should be no problem. The educator then has a record of the student’ s progress that can be shared with the appropriate individuals.
