Interactive PowerPoint

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Interactive PowerPoint

• Carleton Lyon
• Technology Coach
• Johnson City Schools

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Learning Objectives

• Embed digital images and video into PowerPoint
  presentations
• Create non-linear navigation
• Create an interactive quiz or tutorial using
  digital images and video

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Uses of PowerPointHow have you or your students
used PowerPoint?
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Sound, video, picture files can be included at
any point in the presentation
Difficult to accommodate for different
student needs
Disadvantages
Encourages passive vs. active learning
Advantages
Organizes topic To be discussed
Traditional PowerPoint Slideshow
Slideshow Linear format
Effective at presenting audio- visuals or charts
and graphs
Provides clear information for large groups
Difficult to skip Material or view Previous
screens
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Presentation becomes Interactive web rather
than a linear sequence of slides
Short 2 to 5 page presentations organized around
a central topic
Interactive PowerPoint
Students become active participants in
the learning process
Students make choices about the direction and
depth of the activity
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Brainstorm Interactive Ideas
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Create a simple interactive quiz

• Small number of slides (3-5)
• Find a video clip from which you can extract an
  essential question
• Create several possible answers and one correct
• Create a web of question and answers

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Part 1 - Download

• Open up internet browser and go to
  www.unitedstreaming.com
• Find one video clip that corresponds with to an
  upcoming lesson
• Create a folder on your desktop then save clip to
  that folder

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Part 2

• Open PowerPoint
• Create 4 new slides (ctrlm) and save new
  presentation in the same folder as the video clip

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Part 3

• On your first slide go to Insert gt Movies and
  Sounds gt Movie from file
• Insert the video clip into your first slide
• Below the video clip create 4 text boxes. In the
  first, type in a question about the video. In the
  remaining text boxes, type in the possible
  answers.
• Make C the correct answer

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Part 3 (continued)

• 5. On the second and third slides add a textbox
  in each that states, Sorry wrong answer, or
  Try again, etc.
• 6. On the fourth slide add a textbox that states,
  Correct, way to go! and a textbox that says,
  click here to return

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Hyper linking slides

• On the first slide select the textbox with answer
  a. Right click on the textbox and select
  Action settings
• Select hyperlink to gt slide
• Link answer a to slide 2
• On slide 2 follow the same steps to hyperlink
  try again to slide 1
• Repeat steps 1-4 for slides 3 and 4

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