PowerPoint in the Classroom

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PowerPoint in the Classroom

• Dr. Valerie Bryan
• Associate Professor, FAUCO-Director of Technical
  Support Institution for Region V
• CEO, Wild Horses Consulting, Inc.
• Bryan_at_fau.edu

http//www.adulteducation.fau.edu/bryan/default.ht
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Types of Media

• Still photos
• Using a traditional camera, images are burned in
  digital format on a CD-ROM
• Using a digital camera, photos are saved as
  .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp formats
• Scanning in an image and saving to a disk or file

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Types of Media cont.

• Motion and Movie Clips
• Motion File Type of animated graphic.
• Movie File A few frames from a filmed
  production. More on that later.

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The EASY Part Inserting Still, Motion Movie
Clips in PowerPoint

• Open your presentation as usual
• Select slide for the motion clip
• Choose "Insert" "Movies and Sounds"
• Indicate if you are inserting a saved clip or
  selecting something from your Clip Art Gallery.
• Choose either "Movie From File or "Movie From
  Gallery".
• Select the file and complete the process by
  clicking "Insert Clip
• See Insert an animated GIF picture on a slide
  handout

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The Hard Part Finding THE Motion Clips You May
Need

• Once in PowerPoint slide format, select "Insert
  Movies and Sounds". Select "Movie from Gallery".
• With Internet service, download a clip from a Web
  site. See Additional locations for templates and
  picture, music, sound, video, and animation clips
  handout if you need a verbal clue.
• Click "Clips Online". First time users must click
  the "accept" button when the license agreement
  comes up.
• Four search control buttons will come up.
• Search 1 Control Describe the clip you want.
• Search 2 Control Limit the search by category.
• Search 3 Control Limit the search to a type of
  file, such as Motion.
• Search 4 Control Sort your results by file
  size, etc.

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Continuing w/Motion Clips from Microsofts Clip
Gallery

• Then click "Go" that is next to the first control
  button.
• Allow all the clips to load based on your search
  criteria. Download speed of your modem and the
  files size (identified in Search 4 Control),
  determines time required. Process may take a few
  minutes.
• Go through he various files and select those
  items you wish to download.
• Select the check box beneath the clip (Download
  Clip link).
• The clip will automatically be placed in your
  appropriate category based on Microsoft's
  opinion. Selecting clips by category gives you a
  hint where to look later.

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Other Sources of Motion Clips

• Purchase CD-ROMs with animated gifs and even some
  jpeg files that are compatible with your system
  or platform
• Download MIDIs, WAVs, GIFs, and even MOVs from
  the Internet for free
• See MIDIs, WAVs, GIFs and MOVs Site Locations
  handout

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Working w/Motion Clips

• Once you have a few motion clips in your gallery,
  you may wish to control the movements of the
  Motion Clip.
• In normal view, Slide Show/Custom Animation, you
  can select the Order and Timing tab and decide at
  what point the Motion Clip enters (based on
  animation order) or on a time delay that you can
  set.

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Working w/ Movie Clips

• Movie clips come in many formats

• AVI
• ASF
• ASK
• RMI
• WMA
• WAX

• MPG
• MPEG
• MIV
• MP2
• MPA,
• MPE

None of which can be downloaded from the Clip
Gallery
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Search to find some
1st, on your own system
2nd, on the Internet

• Select Start/ Find/ Files and Folders and enter
  .avi
• Click Find Now

• Use the extensions on the previous slide for
  sound only, sound and video, video only

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Just a Sample
Just as you can control animation with a motion
clip, you can do likewise with a movie clip under
Slide Show/Custom Animation/Order and Timing
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Create Your Own
Sound or Movie Files

• See About adding music, sounds, videos, and
  animated GIF pictures in your handouts.
• See About recording a voice narration or sound in
  a slide show.
• See Insert a video on a slide.

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Lets create . . . Voice recording

• 1st. Check for sound card and microphone.
• Then refer to your handout on Record a voice
  narration.
• Find the record option under Insert/Movies and
  Sound/Record Sound
• Then custom animated the sound to play when and
  how you want it to play.
• You may also record a sound via video or a
  digital tape recorders and save the files in
  wav format.

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Lets find some sound files and insert them first

• Using the Start/Find on your desktop, look for
  some MIDI files using .rmi
• Look under Computer/C/Windows/Media/
• There are generally some sounds files for you to
  copy and insert into your PowerPoint

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Lets create

• Possible ways
• Having a normal video re-formated as a digital
  file. See sample of Region V video at URL
  http//www.adulteducation.fau.edu/electronic/Movie
  s/region5.mpg or techteam.mov
• Inserting that file as a hyperlink into
  PowerPoint

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Lets create . . . A video

• Use a digital video camera with compatible
  storage formats to store images.
• Sony Digital Mavica Quick Access FD Drive2X
  MPEGMovie using 3.5 disk
• Apple QuickTake camera

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And a STAR is born . . .
The short clips allow for brief instruction on a
top, for narrations, and do not make it
impossible to keep the file size of the
PowerPoint where it is still manageable.
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What Could You Need for Viewing

• Real Player
• Quicktime Player
• Windows Media Player
• Other samples of information that will be
  helpful
• See Sample of Digitized Files, Streaming Video
  and Audio from TECHNET
• See Plug-Ins, courtesy of Dr. Bryan
• See PowerPoint 2000Tips and Tricks