Several people have emailed me privately about how to make slides by
photographing the computer screen.  They can't figure out how to disappear
the tool bars, etc.  To save time I will briefly describe this for the whole
list, and hope it isn't annoying to those not into either computers or
slides.  This is such an incredibly good trick for making cheap slides, and
if you are like me (don't work in an institution and have to pay for all
your own materials) it is a real benefit to know how to do this.

Create all your slides in Power Point, and then select the option Slide Show
(which previews all your finished slides and disappears the menu bar).  Then
go down to the far left hand corner of the screen and click Start from the
bottom tool bar.  Select Settings and click.  From the Settings menu select
Task Bar and Start Menu and click there.  This brings up a screen which says
Taskbar Properties.  Click Auto-hide.  This disappears the Tool bar.  Then,
to enlarge the slides to fill the whole computer screen, go down to the
control panel on the front of your monitor where there are all those buttons
or dials which control the screen brightness, etc. and manually fiddle with
the dials to expand the slides to fill the whole screen.  Then you can shoot
the pictures.  I darken the room a bit, and don't use your flash or all you
get is a white spot in the center of the picture.

Hope this helps.  Beyond this, my powers of explanation fail me, and if you
still can't figure it out you may have to rent a nerd, or just go to Kinkos.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSEd, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates, Austin, Texas
http://www.jump.net/~bwc/lactnews.html

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