MONICA JAYASINGHE: Over on Microsoft Create,
we can make awards for our classroom.
Click on "Templates" and then look for
PowerPoint and just type in awards.
There are a lot of different template options
for the awards. I love this one.
Now we can choose Download and open in PowerPoint.
There are a few different ones to choose from.
Once you find the one that you like,
you can see you can move around certain things.
We can customize the background by
clicking on "Design" and "Format Background".
Clicking on "Gradient", you can use
these little sliders to customize the colors.
You can use the Type drop-down
and you can choose the direction of the gradient.
Now with our background done,
let's click on "Insert" and "Word art".
I know in my classroom we have character awards,
so let's go ahead and add that.
These would be great to give out every month.
Once we have our word,
we're going to highlight and we're going to
scroll down to Transform.
There's so many different styles
that you can choose from.
Let's pick the curved one.
Now that we have a curved text,
we can even choose what style we want.
When you click on the "A", you can see
the different formatting for your text.
Now we can go back up to the panel and we can
make the spacing of the text a little wider.
We just increase the font so it looks nice and big.
You can adjust where you want your text boxes to go.
Since we're able to edit these text boxes,
we can go in and change it to
our school name and anything else we want to add.
What makes this template so
great is that you only have to do this once,
and then every month you could
just change the student name.
We can add a little more customization.
Click on "Insert" and then "Icon".
We can search for an icon like
a rocket or something to match the theme.
Now we can enlarge this and we can even change
the color to match by using this little eye dropper tool.
Now we can delete the objects we don't need.
Then I'm going to click on
each text box and hold Shift and move them down.
If your school has their own logo,
you can even insert that into your award.
Now we have a cute award to hand out to our students.