The PowerPoint Virtual Museum
Most of us are familiar with using PowerPoint to deliver a presentation. In this assignment you will use
PowerPoint to create one room of a virtual museum that gives nonlinear access to information about the
pictures hanging on your museum wall. The concept can be useful in the K12 arena for creating student
assignments, designing classroom instruction that you deliver, and as an alternate presentation format for
almost any audience.
Requirements
1. Determine a topic for your museum. Find (or take) 5 (or more) digital images related to your
topic.
2. Using https://bubbl.us/, “map out” your museum using your main and subcategories. You should
also develop and include one-paragraph to go along with each picture. You will export your file
as a graphic and this graphic will be included at the end of your PowerPoint. – see p. 2
3. Construct a museum ‘lobby’ (or something similar) in PowerPoint as per the instructions in
these instructions. The room must convey depth, or a 3-D ‘look.’
4. Hang your pictures on the walls of your museum as per these instructions. These pictures should
have the same perspective as the walls.
5. Add a detail slide for each picture. The slide will contain a larger version of the picture that
appears in your ‘lobby’ – this pictures should not be pixilated, a title of some kind that
identifies the picture, the paragraph that you developed in step 2 above, and a textured or
colored background.
6. Add navigation links:
a. Make each picture hanging on a wall in your museum ‘lobby’ into a clickable link that goes
to the related detail slide.
b. Add a “home” button that will allow the user to return to the museum room from each detail
slide. This button should be placed on each detail slide taking care not to cover any part of
an image or text.
7. Remove the option to advance slide by mouse clicks (see instructions).
8. The last two slides of your PowerPoint will be your bubbl.us graphic and a citations slide
(citing where you got your information and images).
9. Completing your PowerPoint assignment
a. Save your file as a PowerPoint Show (.ppsx), which will allow the viewer to enter directly
into slideshow mode without having to press the view slideshow button.
Bubbl.us Instructions Hints
Go to the Website and simply create a new concept map. You do not need to create an account. If
you hover over a Node, you get options such as “create a new child”, move, text and node
colors…etc.
Once you are finished with your concept map, you need to click on the “Export” button
at the top – NOT the Save button. Choose image and it will download your concept
map as an image.
Bubbl.us Requirements
1. ___ Main node contains main title/topic area of your PowerPoint.
2. ___ At least 5 sub-nodes that contain a section title/topic and identify the different slides that
you will use in your PowerPoint museum.
3. ___ Adjust the “fill color” and “line color” of some of your sub-nodes.
4. ___Each sub-node should have a child node containing a paragraph of text that supports the
topic area. This paragraph will be displayed a second time within your PowerPoint
museum
BUILDING A ROOM IN PERSPECTIVE
1. Make a new, blank slide (Insert>New Slide)
2. From the Drawing toolbar, select the Rectangle tool and draw a large-sized rectangle on the
left side of the slide. This is the left wall of the museum. (see picture below). Change the
color of this wall – use the format painter to make all walls the same color.
3. Locate the Trapezoid tool on the basic shapes toolbar and draw a trapezoid on your slide. The
trapezoid will not be facing the correct way. You will fix that in the next step.
4. Highlight the trapezoid and click on the Rotate Left button (Rotate or Flip Toolbar) if you are
doing a wall located to your left, or the Rotate Right button if you are drawing a wall located
to your right
5. Stretch the trapezoid so that it touches the top and bottom corners of the rectangle (first wall)
6. By moving the yellow diamond, you can change the height of the wall.
7. Follow directions in diagram below to complete your room.
8. Using the Fill Color tool (paint bucket) fill the walls with color. Try using “one color
gradients”. They usually work well
9. Fill the floor with a texture, like a rug texture or wood texture (fill tool>fill effects>Textures).
To make the floor and ceiling, make a rectangle that covers the bottom half of your slide and then
send it to the back (right clickArrange or Send To Back).
HANGING PAINTINGS IN YOUR MUSEUM
Inserting paintings on to RECTANGULAR WALLS
1. Draw a rectangle, circle, oval or other shape and place it onto a rectangular shaped wall
2. Double Click on the rectangle and locate Shape Fill Picture. If you cannot find this, simply
right-click on the image and choose “Format shape.” Locate the painting you wish to include
in your museum and fill the shape with the painting 5. Repeat this step for paintings going
onto rectangular walls.
Placing paintings onto TRAPEZOID WALLS
1. Click on the trapezoidal wall that you wish to hang a
painting and duplicate it (cmd+d, ctrl+d). Now, reduce
the size of the newly duplicated object by dragging a
corner node. Note: you could also draw and rotate a
new trapezoid and place it onto a trapezoid-shaped wall,
but the shape of your “painting” might be different than
the shape of the wall.
2. Double Click on the rectangle and locate Shape Fill
Picture (or right-clickformat shape), find your image
and insert.
3. The first time you do this, your image may be in need of
rotation. You cannot, however, rotate the entire trapezoid
because you will lose perspective. Follow the
instructions below.
4. PC Users:
a. Right click on the image within the trapezoid and
select Format Picture.
b. Choose the Fill option at the top left and then deselect the Rotate with shape option.
c. Click OK and repeat steps for each “Trapezoid” wall
5. MAC USERS
a. Double-click on the image
b. Select the Fill option at the top
left.
c. Make sure that the
Picture tab is selected.
d. Deselect the Rotate picture with
shape option.
e. Click OK and repeat steps for
each “Trapezoid” wall
Creating Detail Slides
For each of your images on your “home” slide, you will create a slide that corresponds to that
image. On that page, you will insert a larger version of the image used on your home slide. You
will also add one paragraph of text that describes the image. You will then link the images on
the home slide to the detail slides. Add a background texture to each detail slide.
Adding Navigation Links
To make the pictures on your museum walls into clickable links:
PC USERS:
1. Right-click on a picture and select Hyperlink.
2. Select the Place in This Document option
3. Click on the appropriate slide
4. Choose Ok.
MAC USERS
1. Right-click on a picture and select Hyperlink.
2. Choose the Document tab.
3. Within the Anchor section towards the bottom, select
the Locate button.
4. Select the arrowhead (which appears just to the left
of Slide Titles) to expand all of your slides.
5. Select the appropriate slide and choose OK.
6. Choose OK.
Removing Mouse Click Advancing
You want your visitors to advance through your slideshow by
clicking on the paintings instead of clicking anywhere on the
screen (how normal PowerPoint slideshows are advanced).
To do this on a PC, click on the Slide Sorter View icon. From the Edit menu, choose Select All –
this will highlight all of your slides. Click on the Animations tab (if using Office 2007) or the
Transitions tab (if using Office 2010). Deselect On Mouse Click within the Advance Slide option.
To do this on a Mac, click on the Slide Sorter View icon. From the Edit menu, choose Select All –
this will highlight all of your slides. Click on the Transitions tab and deselect On Mouse Click
within the Advance Slide option. You may have to click on the Options button if you are using a
version of PowerPoint other than version 2011.
Adding Home Navigation
Because you are jumping from the Home slide to the details slide, you need to enable the user
to have easy access back to the Home slide.
1. To begin, make sure that you are on the first detail slide (do not start on the home slide).
2. Select Shapes (PC users might first need to click on the Insert menu).
3. Find and select Action Buttons and choose the button that is blank (called Custom).
4. Drag a small rectangular region to define your button. Make sure you position the
button on your slide where there is no overlapping picture or text box.
5. In the Actions Settings dialog click on the menu to HyperLink to the First Slide.
6. Type in a suitable name for the button (e.g., Go Back, or Musuem Room…). The text you
type should become part of the button.
7. Select the button and go to the Edit menu to Copy it.
8. On the remaining detail slides, paste the button. Make sure that you are not pasting over
any image or text.
How to insert your image with a removed background:
Instructions if you are using a Windows Computer:
A. Text Instructions
1. Choose Insert – Picture – Navigate to the location of your file. Click Open
2. Choose Picture Tools and Format
3. Click Remove
Background
4. Make sure the selection box encloses your entire photo
5. Choose the + to Mark Areas to Keep and the – to Mark Areas to Remove
6. Once you are happy with your selection, click the Keep Changes button.
B. Video Instructions
http://www.screencast.com/t/VnLNLssRy
Instructions if you are using a Mac:
A. Video Instructions
http://screencast.com/t/EmPBcAcCObt
Completing your PowerPoint assignment
1. Make sure all of your hyperlinks work.
2. Your penultimate slide should contain your Inspiration/Kidspiration graphic.
3. Your final slide should list the references that cite where you obtained images and
information.
4. Save your file as a show – (.ppsx) – not as a typical .ppt or .pptx file.
Rubric:
You will be assessed according to the following elements:
 Create a lobby – Five walls, showing a depth, three dimensional perspective. The Aesthetic
appeal of the lobby can improve your grade so consider adding signs, lights, rugs, vases,
water fountains…etc.
 5 pictures on the walls of the lobby – Pictures fitting the perspective of each wall
 5 slides for the detail of each picture on the wall:
o Larger version of pictures,
o Non-pixilated pictures, no copyrights on the images
o Appropriate paragraph for each picture,
o Title for each paragraph,
o A background texture to each slide
 Navigation between slides:
o Having proper links from pictures in the lobby to its slide
o Having a return button in each slide that navigates to the lobby
o Navigation has to be enabled by links and action buttons, not by clicking!
 Creating an Inspiration slide (see requirements on page 3)
 Creating a citation slide
 Saving as a slide show – Using the .ppsx extension while saving
Note: If you wish to make your own unique design, you may insert more pictures, walls to your
lobby, and slides correspondingly.