Truth or Lie PowerPoint

Primary Application: Microsoft Powerpoint Secondary Applications: Web browsers, Inspiration, possibly MS Word, Photoshop Task: Turn the familiar "Truth or Lie" game into an 8-9 slide interactive Powerpoint presentation.

Description: Create eight Powerpoint slides that will comprise your truth and lie stories about yourself. Navigation through the Powerpoint show will be via automatic slide transitions and action buttons activated by the viewer. Create a 'blue-print' for your project using Inspiration.The Inspiration web will show the links between slides. Rather than setting up this Powerpoint in a linear fashion you will incorporate action buttons to navigate between slides. "Link idea lines" on the Inspiration web should indicate how slides are/aren't linked. Use connectors with single or double arrows where necessary.
Required elements:

• 8 slides minimum
  • portrait slide (see sample)
  • project title slide "Two Truths & a Lie" (see sample)
  • 3 separate story slides
  • "Guess" slide
  • "Truth" slide
  • "Lie" slide
• Action buttons that accurate link slides
• Slide Master that contains your name and a "home" action button
• Action buttons on story slides to return to title slide (home button), action button on "truth" & "lie" slide to return to "guess" slide.
• Unique and varied graphics to enhance each story. (Avoid using MS stock clip art)
• Tasteful background, borders, text, layout to enhance presentation
• Text and graphics on slides should be animated where appropriate (multiple animations)
• Sound (not animation sounds, but rather narration or background music)
• Transitions between every slide
• Timings (on story slides and perhaps "Guess" slide) & automatic slide transitions where appropriate
• Polished presentation

Challenges/Extensions

• additional slide for "extra" info (create a link from "Guess slide")
• Personal photographs
• Complex animation sequences (each bullet followed by an accompanying image)
• Enhanced or altered text/images (Photoshop, Image Tricks or web-based utilities)

Steps:

1. Begin by clarifying what three stories you will tell about yourself. Two should be factual and one should be fictitious. The fictitious story may be as believable or unbelievable as you wish.
2. Create an introductory/title slide for the project. This slide will follow your initial "Portrait" slide. Include images or texts to represent each of your three stories. Turn the text or images into action buttons that link to their respective slides.
3. Create a slide master with a footer that has your name and an action button. Program the action button to link to the introductory slide.
4. Design 2 slides for the truth stories and 1 slide for the lie. Include a title, backgrounds, bullet lists or a mini paragraph, photographs & clip art for each slide. Program these three slides to automatically transition from one slide to the next and animate all text and graphics. (Sound optional. Use only if it enhances presentation.)
5. Construct the "Guess" slide. Design this however you wish with action buttons to a "Truth" slide or a "Lie" slide.
6. Edit! This includes spelling and grammar check, watching animations to see if they play correctly, checking transitions and action buttons, etc.
7. Save a final time. (Keep a copy on your jump drive if possible.)

Tips:

• Backgrounds: Either choose to insert backgrounds by: Format>Slide Background> Background Fill...Picture and navigate to your pictures in the appropriate location OR drop the picture onto the slide by drag/drop or Insert>Picture>From File and navigate to your picture in the appropriate location. This second method will allow you to double click the picture after it's placed on the slide and change the transparency. Send the picture to the back if you are using the second stragegy.
• Eliminate the Slide Master elements on particular slides such as the portrait slide by going to Format>Slide Background and then check the box that says Apply (not Apply to all).

Click here to download score sheet (PDF)

Next step:

Add a slide with the Inspiration JPEG and a link to the Inspiration file.

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