Graduation Gift Ideas - Make a Memorable Graduation Slideshow

To many of us, the ages being at school are always pure and sweet. With those who meant the most to you, there are lots of unforgettable memories. It’s now time to say goodbye to them. Some of your friends may go off to different colleges or move away to pursue a career, what would you like to give them as a graduation gift so that they can have something to remember you by when you all go your separate ways?

Except some practical friendship gifts such as a pen/pencil with your friend’s name engraved on it, graduation picture frame and graduation themed paperweight, one thing stands out is a gift that can remember the special moments only belongs to you and your friends. Make use of the photos that witness the grow-up of you, and with the blessings you want to say to your friends, a graduation slideshow then becomes the perfect choice.

In the needs of report or seminar in school, there must be Office Suite on most students’ computer. As an important part of it, PowerPoint performs the best for presentation. So choose Microsoft PowerPoint as the tool to help you create the graduation slideshow couldn’t be better.

Before you start, scan all the pictures you want to include in the graduation slideshow onto your computer and store them in a folder on your desktop. If you have pictures from digital cameras, resize them so they won’t be too big.

After that, choose the music you want to use. The music for the slideshow somehow should reflect your feeling about graduation. Here are 10 popular graduation songs for 2009:

• Good Riddance by Green Day
• Here’s to the Night by Eve 6
• Those Nights by Skillet
• The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls
• Change by Taylor Swift
• Goodbye to You by Michelle Branch
• 100 Years by Five for Fighting
• Stories by Trapt
• Rude Awakening by Thousand Foot Krutch
• My Wish by Rascal Flatts

Now that everything is OK, you can start to create your graduation slideshow with PowerPoint now.

• First Open your PowerPoint, if you don’t want to use some graduation themed PowerPoint templates, you can leave it white. Insert pictures by clicking Insert, and then Picture. If the picture is too big on the slide, you can adjust it by dragging it. For descriptions you want to add to pictures, you can directly do it in the same slide.
• To add music click the Insert button, select Sound, and then Sound from File. Choose the digital music file you want to use and click OK. Choose Yes when it asks if you want the file to play automatically.
• To be creative, you can further record a video with your camera, and then insert the video into the PowerPoint graduation slideshow. The room you lived together, the basketball court you have lots of fun on, and the library where you read books can all be captured, also with your own voice.

After you finish creating the graduation slideshow with PowerPoint, you can upload it to your own blog for sharing with friends or burn it onto a CD/DVD disc for sending to your classmates as a special graduation gift. For ways about how to do it, you can click here.

A graduation slideshow is a memento that will be treasured for a lifetime. Make it a meaningful graduation gift. Leave the best time in mind forever.