To change the answers, go to the master page, and edit the text fields that have the answers, be careful not to move any fields around, just edit the text in them.

To play the game, start the slideshow at slide number 6.
If there is a corrrect answer guessed, click on the appropriate box to reveal that answer – complete with sound efffects!
For a wrong answer, click anywhere on the background.

Here is a link to the keynote templates – there are two versions:

This is a very big version that takes a long time to load but has the ‘wrong’ sounds in it:

http://macintoshhowwto.com/public/ff.zip

This is a smaller version that needs the ‘wrong’ sounds to be played from an ipod but is much faster to load.

http://macintoshhowwto.com/public/familyfeud.zip

Here are the rules from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_feud#Rules_of_the_game

Let me know how it goes!

Here’s a goot tip from Stacey:

Thank you so much for your work! This is awesome – perfect as a review game for my students. But, I was able to make more questions on the same presentation rather than saving a bunch of files. I just copied the two master slides (“Sound” and “No sound”) and renamed them (“Question 2 Sound” and “Question 2 No Sound”). Then I typed in my second question on the two new master sides. Next, I copy/pasted the sequence of 34 possible answer slides and reapplied the “Question 2 Sound” and “Question 2 No Sound” to the appropriate slides. I ended up making about 25 different questions in one file. Thanks again!

This is an Apple display adapter. They come in various shapes and sizes. The left hand end plugs into you laptop. There are 5 different possible left hand ends you can choose from: MiniVGA, DVI, Mini-DVI, MicroDVI and MiniDisplayPort! You’ll need to match it to your macbook. The right side plugs into a data-projector or monitor – there are 3 different right hand ends to choose from, VGA, DVI or HDMI. You’ll need to match this to your projector. If you always carry around the adapter to connect your mac to a VGA projector, that should get you out of trouble 99% of the time. If you want to be 100% sure, carry an adapter to connect to DVI as well.

1. The left hand side – your laptop.

All macintosh laptops have a ‘video out’ port, but Apple have changed the format of the port every few years. For this reason you need a special adapter with pretty much every mac laptop to be able to connect it to a projector or monitor. I would suggest you get the adapter for your particular macbook and keep it with your macbook. Here are what some of them look like:

Mini VGA (pre 2002) found on older ibooks

Mini DVI (2003) found on some powerbooks and early macbooks

DVI (2003)found on 15" and 17" powerbooks

Mini Display Port (2008) on new macbooks

2. The right hand side: to the projector.

In the projector world there are two main connections – VGA and DVI. There is also HDMI but most HDMI projectors also have DVI so I won’t mention them here.

VGA. This is the most common projector input. If you are on the road a lot then the safest connector to get is a VGA connector.  Pretty much every projector will have a VGA input. Even though VGA is quite old and not the best quality, almost all new projectors still have a VGA input because it was the standard output of PC computers for many years. VGA looks like this:

VGA projector input - all projectors can accept a VGA input.

DVI

DVI is a lot better quality than VGA, so if you are connecting to a projector that has DVI, DVI is a better option. Not all projectors have DVI, although most new ones do. A DVI input looks like this:

DVI projector input - better quality and found on most new projectors.

So what I suggest is that you always carry the adapter to connect your computer to a VGA projector. For example, if you have a macbook with a Mini DVI port, the following adapter is what you need to plug into a VGA projector.

e.g. Mini DVI (left) to VGA adapter plugs a 2005 macbook into a VGA projector

Whatever laptop I have, I always carry two adapters, one for VGA and one for DVI.

My current laptop is a 15″ macbook pro. It has a DVI output. So to be able to plug into any projector, I always carry a DVI to DVI cable to plug into a DVI projector, PLUS I carry an Apple DVI to VGA adapter with a VGA lead so I can plug into any VGA projector.

Here are some of the various adapters in the APPLE USA store.

To a VGA projector:

Apple Mini DVI to VGA Adapter

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Apple DVI to VGA Display Adapter

Mini VGA to VGA Adapter

To a DVI Projector:

Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter

Apple Mini-DVI to DVI Adapter

Apple Micro-DVI to DVI Adapter

This Logitech presenter is great. After using the ATI remote wonder for a year or so, and a Microsoft cordless mouse also, I’ve done a bit of research, and came up with these little units as the as the best in my opinion. They are $79 at Officeworks and have all the features you need…

• a long range.
• works with keynote or powerpoint.
• the battery display indicates that the remaining battery life with little bars, so you’re not caught out with a flat battery. 
• the forward and back controls click, so you can feel that you have pressed them.
• if you have a time to end by, eg you are presenting to a group on a timetable, you can set up the timer, it gives you 5 min and 2 minute vibration warnings.
• It has volume up and down which automatically work on the mac with no setting up.
• the usb receiver stows away in the transmitter, and it all comes in a little padded pouch.
• it doesn’t need any drivers for Macintosh, it just works!

 Unfortunately, because it doesn’t need any drivers, you can’t program the keys to do what you want them to do, and the blank screen key doesn’t work. You can download the shareware program USB Overdrive to re-map the keys to do anything you want.   The side view shows volume buttons.  the ATI wonder remote is still better as a remote control for the DVD player  and itunes applications, as it has more buttons, but this Logitech unit is more reliable and simpler.

TO MAKE A PRESENTATION WITH NO SOUNDTRACK…
(eg song words for church, a slideshow that plays in the background at a birthday etc)

1. Get a macintosh, don’t waste time with a PC. Don’t use powerpoint unless you want to waste a lot of your time.

2. For a presentation that has plain slides and maybe 1 or two movies, keynote is good. It comes as part of iwork from Apple.

3. If you need to use lots of multimedia, or last minute flexibility to make changes, then ‘see’ may be better. (‘see’ is available from rwts.com.au – sign up for beta version under products – see)

TO MAKE A MOVIE WITH A SOUNDTRACK
(eg a video clip for a song)
To make a movie with words (stills) and pictures AND a soundtrack.

- imovie is easier than keynote, as the timings are MUCH easier, even if the final output is not as pretty (but you probably won’t notice the difference on the big screen)

• make all the lyrics as slides with keynote. Do it at 1024×768 resolution – set in inspector – document- slide size.
export from keynote as export-images-tiff.
• drag all these slides into imovie
• drag other stills (eg pictures) into imovie
• drag the song (music) into imovie timeline along the bottom.
• drag all the stills down to the timeline, they will be default to 5 seconds each.
• add transitions (eg select all then add transition cross dissolve)
• finally, starting at first still, listen to song, work out where still is meant to end, double click the still, change the duration of the still so that it ends where it is meant to. Do this progresively for all the stills.
• export as full quality.