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Go to http://www.gutenberg.org/. Step 1. Step 2. Search Gutenberg.org for a Public Domain text and find a short (two or three paragraph) passage from a book or poem that you like I found an excerpt from the Oz books using the search term ‘Oz’ at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/

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  1. Go to http://www.gutenberg.org/ Step 1

  2. Step 2 • Search Gutenberg.org for a Public Domain text and find a short (two or three paragraph) passage from a book or poem that you like • I found an excerpt from the Oz books using the search term ‘Oz’ at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/ • I selected “The Scarecrow of Oz” and three paragraphs from it, which appear on the next slides. • Save it in your preffered format (I start with the LibreOffice .odp native format, then PowerPoint 2003 ppt format. • Export to SWF flash or pdf and open in your browser as appropriate to your platform.

  3. Scarecrow of Oz I chose a few paragraphs from the beginning of Chapter 2 Baum, L. F. (). The Scarecrow of Oz. Online text version from Gutenberg.org at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/957/957-h/957-h.htm

  4. Excerpt part 1 • Chapter Two • The Cavern Under the Sea • The circles were so much smaller at the bottom of the basin, and the boat moved so much more swiftly, that Trot was beginning to get dizzy with the motion, when suddenly the boat made a leap and dived headlong into the murky depths of the hole. Whirling like tops, but still clinging together, the sailor and the girl were separated from their boat and plunged down—down—down—into the farthermost recesses of the great ocean.

  5. At first their fall was swift as an arrow, but presently they seemed to be going more moderately and Trot was almost sure that unseen arms were about her, supporting her and protecting her. She could see nothing, because the water filled her eyes and blurred her vision, but she clung fast to Cap'n Bill's sou'wester, while other arms clung fast to her, and so they gradually sank down and down until a full stop was made, when they began to ascend again.

  6. But it seemed to Trot that they were not rising straight to the surface from where they had come. The water was no longer whirling them and they seemed to be drawn in a slanting direction through still, cool ocean depths. And then—in much quicker time than I have told it—up they popped to the surface and were cast at full length upon a sandy beach, where they lay choking and gasping for breath and wondering what had happened to them.

  7. Save as LibreOffice ODP format first, for stability, then as PowerPoint 2003 for legacy users and greatest compatibility

  8. Export as SWF (Flash) for opening with a Flash-enabled browser, or as PDF for printing and ease of delivery across platforms

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