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I will be able to organize and express my thoughts by using a PowerPoint presentation.                            I will be able to evaluate my work. 

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I will be able to organize and express my thoughts by using a PowerPoint presentation.                            I will be able to evaluate my work. 

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I can identify key features of an autobiography.
I can brainstorm and organize key personal events in a PPT.
I can add sound effect to my PPT.

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Discuss the attached chart with your partner

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Discuss the attached chart with your partner

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You can add audio, such as music, narration, or sound bites, to your PowerPoint presentation. To record and hear any audio, your computer must be equipped with a sound card, microphone, and speakers.

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Record audio

1. Type in a name for your audio file, select Record, and then speak.

Note: Your device must have a microphone enabled in order to record audio.

2. To review your recording, select Stop and then select Play.

3. Select Record to re-record your clip, or select OK if you're satisfied.

4. To move your clip, select and drag the audio icon to where you want it on the slide.

If you're using more than one audio file per slide, we recommend putting the audio icon in the same spot on a slide to find it easily.

Change playback options

Select the audio icon and then select the Audio Tools Playback tab. Then select which options you'd like to use:

To trim the audio, select Trim and then use the red and green sliders to trim the audio file accordingly.

To fade in or fade out audio, change the number in the Fade Duration boxes.

To adjust volume, select Volume and select the setting you prefer.

To choose how the audio file starts, select the dropdown arrow and select an option:

In Click Sequence: Plays the audio file automatically with a click.

Automatically: Plays automatically once you advance to the slide that the audio file is on.

When Clicked On: Plays audio only when the icon is clicked on.

To choose how the audio plays in your presentation, select an option:

To have the audio play continuously across all slides in the background, select Play in Background.

Delete audio

To delete an audio clip, select the audio icon on the slide and press Delete.

What would you like to do?

1. In Normal view, click the slide that you want to add a sound to.

3. The audio icon and controls appear on the slide.

1. In Normal view, click the slide that you want to add a sound to.

3. In the list, click Record Sound.

The Record Sound dialog box opens.

4. In the Record Sound dialog box, click Record , and begin speaking or playing your own audio.

5. Click Stop when you're done recording. Assign a name to the recording.

Click Play to listen to the recording. If you're satisfied, click OK to save the recording and insert it on the slide. If you're not yet satisfied, repeat steps 4 and 5.

The audio icon and controls appear on the slide:

1. On the slide, select the audio clip icon .

To start the audio clip automatically when you show the slide, in the Start list, click Automatically.

To manually start the audio clip when you click it on the slide, in the Start list, click On Click.

To play an audio clip as you click through the slides in your presentation, in the Start list, click Play across slides.

To play an audio clip continuously until you stop it, select the Loop until Stopped check box.

Note: When you loop a sound, it plays continuously until you advance to the next slide.

Important: Use this option only if you set the audio clip to play automatically, or if you created some other kind of control, such as a trigger, to click to play the clip. (A trigger is something on your slide, such as a picture, shape, button, paragraph of text, or text box, that can set off an action when you click it.) Note that the audio icon is always visible unless you drag it off the slide.

1. Click the audio clip icon .

2. Under Audio Tools, on the Playback tab, in the Audio Options group, select the Hide During Show check box.

To delete a music clip or another sound in PowerPoint, do the following:

1. Locate the slide that contains the sound that you want to delete.

2. In Normal view, click the sound icon or CD icon , and then press Delete.

You can add audio, such as music, narration, or sound bites, to your PowerPoint presentation. To record and hear any audio, your computer must be equipped with a sound card, microphone, and speakers.

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To add music or other audio clip to your slide show, select the slide you want and click Insert > Audio. You can add audio to a single slide, play audio automatically when a slide appears, or add a song that plays as background music during your entire presentation.

You can add your own narration or commentary to an entire presentation by recording it on the Slide Show tab. See Record your slide show for more information.

Add audio to a single slide

1. In Normal view, select the slide you want and click Insert > Audio.

2. Click Audio Browser to insert audio from iTunes, or Audio from File to insert an audio clip from your computer.

3. Select the audio clip. On the Audio Format tab, select the audio options you want.

4. (Optional) If you want to change or modify the standard audio file icon, use the picture format buttons on the Audio Format tab to add a frame, border, or other formatting effect to the audio icon.

Preview the audio

Play audio automatically when a slide appears

By default, during a slide show, audio plays when it is clicked. You can change it so that the audio plays automatically as soon as its slide appears.

1. In Normal view, select the slide you want and add an audio clip if you haven't already done so.

2. On the Audio Format tab, on the right, click Start > Automatically.

Add audio that plays during your entire presentation

1. In Normal view, select the first slide in your presentation and add an audio clip if you haven't already done so.

2. On the Audio Format tab, on the right, click Play across Slides.

Add audio that plays repeatedly

1. In Normal view, select the slide you want and add an audio clip if you haven't already done so.

2. On the Audio Format tab, on the right, click Loop Until Stopped.

(Used alone, this option means the looping sound lasts while the slide it resides on is being shown. When Loop Until Stopped is used in tandem with Play Across Slides, the looping sound continues throughout the presentation.)

Hide the Audio icon

1. Click the audio clip icon.

2. On the PowerPoint ribbon, on the Playback tab, select the Hide During Show check box.

Use this option only if you set the audio clip to play automatically. Note that the audio icon is always visible unless you drag it off the slide.

See also

Record your slide show

Adding audio to a slide isn't supported in PowerPoint for the web.

If you want this feature added to PowerPoint for the web, please go to our suggestion box and vote for it.

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Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation

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You can add audio, such as music, narration, or sound bites, to your PowerPoint presentation. To record and hear any audio, your computer must be equipped with a sound card, microphone, and speakers. 2:00 Type in a name for your audio file, select Record, and then speak.

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Select five important events in your life. Use your written summaries of these events to create your PowerPoint audio-visual autobiography.

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You may use recordings from the radio or your personal music collections.

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Follow guidelines for fair use of copyrighted images and music. Details about these guidelines will be discussed in class.

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Present your slideshow in class. Limit the presentation to 5–10 minutes.

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After all the autobiographies have been shown in class, respond to your peers’ presentations in writing.

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Evaluate your work using the attached rubric

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Evaluate your work using the attached rubric

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Brainstorm - Feel free to share/ write all your ideas :) 

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Brainstorm - Feel free to share/ write all your ideas :) 

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Begin the prewriting stage of your tasks by brainstorming at least 15 major events in your lives. You can brainstorm with the whole class, small groups, or individually. You may list any events that hold personal significance.
If you have difficulty coming up with your own list, check the following:

First day of school (e.g., preschool, kindergarten, first grade, middle school, high school)

A special family trip or vacation

A family event or milestone

A personal achievement (e.g., first place in a competition)

A personal loss

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Discuss the writing stages with your group.

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Discuss the writing stages with your group.

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The final stage will be the actual publishing of your autobiographies in the form of PowerPoint presentations.

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Invention: Starting the Writing Process
Summary:
Tips for how to start a writing assignment.

Writing takes time

Find out when is the assignment due and devise a plan of action. This may seem obvious and irrelevant to the writing process, but it's not. Writing is a process, not merely a product. Even the best professional writers don't just sit down at a computer, write, and call it a day. The quality of your writing will reflect the time and forethought you put into the assignment. Plan ahead for the assignment by doing pre-writing: this will allow you to be more productive and organized when you sit down to write. Also, schedule several blocks of time to devote to your writing; then, you can walk away from it for a while and come back later to make changes and revisions with a fresh mind.

Use the rhetorical elements as a guide to think through your writing

Thinking about your assignment in terms of the rhetorical situation can help guide you in the beginning of the writing process. Topic, audience, genre, style, opportunity, research, the writer, and purpose are just a few elements that make up the rhetorical situation.

Topic and audience are often very intertwined and work to inform each other. Start with a broad view of your topic such as skateboarding, pollution, or the novel Jane Eyre and then try to focus or refine your topic into a concise thesis statement by thinking about your audience. Here are some questions you can ask yourself about audience:

Who is the audience for your writing?

Do you think your audience is interested in the topic? Why or why not?

Why should your audience be interested in this topic?

What does your audience already know about this topic?

What does your audience need to know about this topic?

What experiences has your audience had that would influence them on this topic?

What do you hope the audience will gain from your text?

For example, imagine that your broad topic is dorm food. Who is your audience? You could be writing to current students, prospective students, parents of students, university administrators, or nutrition experts among others. Each of these groups would have different experiences with and interests in the topic of dorm food. While students might be more concerned with the taste of the food or the hours food is available, parents might be more concerned with the price.

You can also think about opportunity as a way to refine or focus your topic by asking yourself what current events make your topic relevant at this moment. For example, you could connect the nutritional value of dorm food to the current debate about the obesity epidemic or you could connect the price value of dorm food to the rising cost of a college education overall.

Keep in mind the purpose of the writing assignment.

Writing can have many different purposes. Here are just a few examples:

Summarizing: Presenting the main points or essence of another text in a condensed form

Arguing/Persuading: Expressing a viewpoint on an issue or topic in an effort to convince others that your viewpoint is correct

Narrating: Telling a story or giving an account of events

Evaluating: Examining something in order to determine its value or worth based on a set of criteria.

Analyzing: Breaking a topic down into its component parts in order to examine the relationships between the parts.

Responding: Writing that is in a direct dialogue with another text.

Examining/Investigating: Systematically questioning a topic to discover or uncover facts that are not widely known or accepted, in a way that strives to be as neutral and objective as possible.

Observing: Helping the reader see and understand a person, place, object, image or event that you have directly watched or experienced through detailed sensory descriptions.

You could be observing your dorm cafeteria to see what types of food students are actually eating, you could be evaluating the quality of the food based on freshness and quantity, or you could be narrating a story about how you gained fifteen pounds your first year at college.

You may need to use several of these writing strategies within your paper. For example, you could summarize federal nutrition guidelines, evaluate whether the food being served at the dorm fits those guidelines, and then argue that changes should be made in the menus to better fit those guidelines.

Pre-writing strategies

Once you have thesis statement just start writing! Don't feel constrained by format issues. Don't worry about spelling, grammar, or writing in complete sentences. Brainstorm and write down everything you can think of that might relate to the thesis and then reread and evaluate the ideas you generated. It's easier to cut out bad ideas than to only think of good ones. Once you have a handful of useful ways to approach the thesis you can use a basic outline structure to begin to think about organization. Remember to be flexible; this is just a way to get you writing. If better ideas occur to you as you're writing, don't be afraid to refine your original ideas.

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Write the important components of any autobiography.

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Write the important components of any autobiography.