CREATING A POWERPOINT KIOSK FOR PORTFOLIO ON DISC

If you want to display your materials using Powerpoint - making it a kiosk gives it interactivity like a DVD or website. Here are the steps for doing this:

1. In the PowerPoint application, go to Slideshow > Setup Slideshow. Change mode to "Kiosk" mode so that the only way to move from slide to slide is using hyperlinks.

2. Kiosk mode only moves to another slide if you set an automatic animation to do so or the user clicks on a hyperlink - which can be text or a graphic.

3. Any text or graphic can be used as a link to other slides. Just right click on the item and go to Hyperlink. On the left will be the context for the link - then select the file or slide you want to go to in the window.

4. Text that becomes hyperlinked will turn blue and have an underline. Graphics that have hyperlinks do not change. Remember to have links that take the user back to the menu on each slide.

5. Slides can be used to display text, documents, photos, audio, and video. If you have video, you should create a slide for each video you want to play. Have the video play automatically. Put a link back to the menu you came from to get to the video slide.

6. Your first slide in PowerPoint should be your contact info and links to main areas of the slide show. This becomes the main menu. You can have sub-menus for various areas of the portfolio that take you to individual display slides.

7. For PDF and Word files, you should create a slide that discusses what you did and give an excerpt from the document. Put a hyperlink on the slide that connects to the file on your disc that will launch Acrobat Reader or Word when clicked on. For this to work, you need to include a folder of all documents you externally link to on your disk. Keep all your materials in the same folder as the PowerPoint file to make sure the links don't change when burning to disc.

8. When finished, use Save As to create a PowerPoint show file. This is the file the user should click on to start. You can burn your folder to disc at this point. Check to see if it works on a different computer before turning in to me. If your links don't work right or files seem to be missing, you didn't keep everything in your main folder when linking earlier. You'll have to make sure everything is in one folder before linking any files in PowerPoint.

If you are having trouble, Microsoft has a PowerPoint help website that includes tutorials on various things within the program. Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/FX100648951033.aspx?CTT=96&Origin=CL100626991033.