Now it's time for your students to get to work:

• Place a copy of the storybook template you've created on each student computer. (If you aren't on a school network, you'll need to provide each student with the template on a CD, floppy disk, or e-mail attachment.
• Have each student open his or her copy of the template. Demonstrate to students how to use the Page Up and Page Down buttons or scroll bar to move from one slide to another.
• Have each student go to the first slide, type his or her name in the text box, and type the subject of his or her story on the underscore in the title box.
• Have students go to Slide 2, read the prompt, and complete the thought in the text box.
• When students are done typing the text for Slide 2, have them click the clip art icon, select an image from the Clip Art Gallery, and Insert the image into the slide.
• Explain to students that they should follow the steps above -- read the prompt, type a response in the text box, and insert an image -- for each slide, until the slide show is complete.
• Have students save their storybooks (in a location convenient to you!) as: [Student Name]Storybook.ppt. Make sure they save the storybooks as PowerPoint presentations (ppt.) and not as templates (.pot).

Next: Suggestions for older and younger students!