PowerPoint and Russian Fairy Tales

Slides for Russian Fairy Tale lectures are posted to the course web site (http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~tales/) no later than the night before each lecture. Students are encouraged to print these slides and bring the printout to class as a way of organizing their notes. You may print the slides from any web browser, but because Microsoft PowerPoint may not generate well-formed HTML, printouts directly from the web site may not look the way you'd like. To avoid this problem:

  1. Log onto a computer running Microsoft Windows and equipped with Microsoft PowerPoint. If your own computer does not runWindows, you can use the Windows machines in any of the University computer labs.
  2. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer (not Netscape Navigator or any other web browser), navigate to the list of overheads (http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~tales/03-2/overheads.html) and select the slides for the lecture you need.
  3. Once the slide set has loaded, drop down the "File" menu in the upper left and select the "Edit with Microsoft PowerPoint" option. (If you do not see this option, you may not be using a computer equipped with PowerPoint. This should not happen in a University lab; if it does, ask the lab consultant for advice. If you are a Pitt student and this happens on your own machine, you can obtain a free copy of PowerPoint from the University; see http://technology.pitt.edu/software/stu_microsoft.html for details.)
  4. After the slide show opens in PowerPoint (this may take several seconds, or several minutes over a slow dial-up connection), select the "File" menu in the upper left corner of PowerPoint and then select "Print." A "print dialogue box" will open, and there will be a drop-down list in the lower left part of the box labeled "Print What." Most students select "Handouts" and then in the "Handouts" drop-down list to the right of the "Print What" list they select three slides per page. This prints three slides down the left column of the page with lines for notes to the right of each slide. The print dialogue box for PowerPoint in Office 2000 looks like:
    [PowerPoint Print Dialogue Box]

If you have trouble getting to a lab to print the slides before going to class (they may appear only late on the night before lecture), you might want to make arrangements with classmates to take turns being responsible for making printouts for one another.